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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33917, 9 August 1975, Page 15

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.\ixon programmes The National Broadcasting Company has said that it has ended negotiations with an agent for the former President, Mr Richard Nixon, over proposed documentary television protn which Mr Nixon will appear — New York. Begging licences Beggar' in Jullundur, in the northern Indian state of Punjab, will henceforth need a permit from the local authorities to ply their trade. People seeking a begging permit will have to provide details about themselves and state what they intend to do with the money or goods they are given. — New Delhi. Poirot to die Hercule Poirot, the plump.! sleek-haired detective c'eated by the novelist Agatha Christie, is about to di The famous detective — reduced to a sad shadow of his former smooth self as he rides in a wheelchair, con--rantiy nursed — will die t'r m a coronan thrombosis i a novel — "Curtain: Poir t s Last Case” — to be I ibll'hed on September 29. — London

I Trailer tragedy ’ At least 19 persons; [ drowned and four were re-! ported missing when a tractor and trailer carrying 33! r farm workers plunged into; lan irrigation canal near! . Adana in southern Turkey.; — Ankara. 1 Protest hijack Mexican students have hijacked 20 city buses and three police cars in the i northern city of Torreon in f protest against increased i public transport fares. — I Mexico'City. Xnclear test? ’ An underground explosion . measuring 5.3 on the open-.; ended Richter scale has been !. recorded in the Semi-j palatinsk area in Siberia by I the Uppsala Seismological; Institute. The explosion also; recorded by the Kjeller Seismological Institute, near! : Oslo, is believed to have! t been a nuclear test. — Oslo. 1 > ; Kam bier ensnared A 66-year-old English I ! rambler. Mr Donald Wilson,! , is in hospital with pneumonia after spending four . nights and days ensnared in > a mass of barbed wire which had been abandoned in a ■ Cornish wood.—London. |