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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33933, 28 August 1975, Page 13

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Activist gaoled

A Soviet-Jewish activist ! who lost his engineering job | after applying for an emiIgration visa to Israel has ! been sentenced to two years [ imprisonment for assaulting a police officer in Odessa. The trial of Lev Roitburg, aged 38. was held in the Red Room at Odessa Airport, normally reserved for Communist Party meetings. — Moscow. Thai more Thailand has strengthened its defence posts along its 1000-mile border with Laos. The move follows the sealing of the border near Vientiane by pro-Communist Pathet Lao “revolutionary” leaders after their effective take-over of Laos. — Bangkok. ■U.N. and Ulster United United troops should be used in Northern Ireland if the British Army cannot cope with the recurring violence there, Mr Ruairi Brugha, the Fianna Fail Party’s spokesman on Northern Ireland, says in a statement issued in Dublin. “It is the duty of the British Gov. ernment, which is responsible for security, to seek out the assassins, and to disarm all sectarian elements,” he says. — Dublin. Journalists’ call

More than 300 West European journalists have supported a call by 16 of their Portuguese colleagues to President da Costa Gomes to preserve democracy in Portugal. A Dutch journalist, Nicolaas van Nieuwenhuysen, says that the appeal was organised in Portugal by Nuno Rocha, a member of the International Press Institute. Ban on reporters The South Vietnamese Government has asked three more foreign journalists to leave Saigon; Alan Dawson, manager of United Press International’s Saigon office, and two Japanese, Yoshihisa Komori, of Maintchi, and Hiroaki Yamamoto, of Asahi — Saigon.