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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33783, 4 March 1975, Page 17

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Loan in dispute

The militant Left-wing British actress, Vanessa Red-i grave, is suing a fellow revolutionary ovei a loan of £4OOO, the “Sunday Express” j reports. She has issued a High Court writ for the return of the money which, she says, she lent to Mr Alan Thomett, a former shop steward at a British Leyland car factory. Mr Thornett, who is 38, was until recently a member of a Trotskyist organisation, the Workers' Revolutionary Party, but has since formed his own breakaway group, the Workers’ Socialist League. Miss Redgrave has stood unsuccessfully as a W.R.P. candidate in an East End district of London in the last two General Elections. — London, March 3. Influenza in Japan About 120,000 people in Japan were stricken with influenza between February 9 and 22, and the Ministry of Health today gave a warning that there are signs that the illness, mostly of the Hong Kong “A” type, is spreading throughout the country. Since October, nearly 2500 classes at about 660 schools in Tokyo have been cancelled for periods varying from a few days, to one week, and between 70 and 80 per cent of all school-

children have been vaccin ated.—Tokyo, March 3.

Insemination in U.S.

There are about 250,000 children in the United States today who are the issue of their natural mothers and unidentified artificial insemination donors, according to Dr Marco Labudovich, a United States Navy captain and an expert in artificial insemination. He says that the insemination practice is increasing because of the scarcity of adoptable babies caused by the contraceptive pill and liberalised abortion laws.—New York, March 3. London demise

London’s famous Ritz Grill has closed, because of lack of profit, after 70 years A restaurant spokesman said yesterday: “We have been forced to shut down because of the British economic situation. Ironically, we’ve been patronised by many wealthy Arab oil sheikhs in the last year.” The profits of the Ritz Hotel slumped last vear from £138,000 to £29,ooo.—London, March 3. Chogyal’s denial The Chogyal (Ruler) of Sikkim has rejected speculation that he is planning to live in Nepal. “My country is Sikkim, and I certainly want to live and die there,” he told a press conference in Katmandu, but he admitted that the situation in his Himalayan kingdom, recently incorporated into the Indian political system, the ruler being reduced to a titular head, was "not very happy.” —Katmandu, March 3. Temple ceremony Egyptian archaeologists have arrived in Aswan to prepare for the inauguration of the ancient Temple of Kalabsha, which has been moved to a new site to save it from submersion in Lake Nasser. The 2000-year-old Egyptian temple of the Pharoahs, regarded as the finest temple in Nubia after the T emples of Abu Simbel, was moved 25 miles from its original site to avoid the steadily-rising I Nile waters in the lake, built up behind the Aswan Dam.— I Aswan, March 3. Surgeon killed One of Australia's leading hair-transplant surgeons. Dr Thomas Pirotta, of Melbourne, was the pilot of a light aircraft in which he, two women and two young children were killed today. His Beechcraft Baron stalled and nose-dived into the tarmac of Parafield Airport, just north of Adelaide. The victims included a Melbourne woman doctor and her two young children, and a nursing sister.—Adelaide, March | 3 - . Minister dismissed The Indian Prime Minuter (Mrs Gandhi) has dismissed Mr Mohan Dharia, Minister of State for Works and Housing, who has publicly differed with Government policy towards Mr Jayaprakash Narayan, the veteran pacifist leader who has been leading an anti-Govemment corruption campaign in Bihar and other states. — New Delhi, March 3. Squatters evicted Israeli soldiers yesterday evicted about 50 would-be lewish squatters who attempted to make an unauthorised settlement halfway between Jerusalem and Jericho on the occupied West Bank of Jordan. The group, almost all of them members of a religious group which believes that all of the Biblical land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people and should be open to settlement offered only passive resistance when the soldiers broke into their makeshift huts at Ma'Ale Adumin, on the road to Jericho, only a few hours after their attempt. — Jerusa’March 3. Tito to travel

President Tito of Yugoslavia will pay a visit to Poland soon at the invitation of the Polish Communiu ■Party leader. Mr Edwa 1 Gierek. — Belgrade, Marti i3 ‘ ‘