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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33941, 6 September 1975, Page 15

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Leprosy decreases , Leprosx cas •> m Fiji haxc i become so rare that the lip (Government will close its Saint Elisabeth home tor lepers at Korovou at the end of this year Announcing te this the Prime Minister (Ratu Sir Kamisese Marai al said that last year 77 lepr re'osy cases had been reported but only 37 required admrs it sion to hospital.—Sina 1. •r Inflation costs ii_ As part of its anti j inflation drive, the British ~ I Government has ordered mu t nicipal authorities to cut j'spending on services ranging I from schoolrooms to cu memes. All extra staff r< , s cruiting was banned, except for the police force and : associated services. A Got ■ ernment circular prescribed fewer refuse collections, shorter opening hours tor n libraries and museums, and n the scrapping of anu oI pollution measures.—London II v . \i.von papers t The White House has ..(agreed to turn over to Sen- . ate investigators some pre.si j dential papers of Mi Richard I Nixon relating to United .(States foreign and domesta 0 1 intelligence activities if the , courts approve. Mr Nixon has filed a suit of his own .claiming ownership of the material, and has sttv Inously objected to turning I them over to Congression;, (committees.—Washington I Comrades to tred j President Samora Xlachel [Of Mozambique will marrx I his Minister of Education and Tourism (Miss Graca iSimbine), tomorrow, the Fie limo central committee has I announced. The committee. Frelimo’s highest authority, (said in a communique: “the central committee of Frelimo j has approved the wedding of fiComrade Samora Machel to Graca Simbine.” — -ILourenco Marques. ’! hry celebrations > The Papua New Guinea 1, Government has announced rjtough liquor restrictions — • including a ban on all take [away sales for 10 days as ; from tomorrow - which (will apply over the country’s independence celebrations -■period. "Incidents arising i from exces .ive consumption , ol alcoholic liquor must not - be allowed to degrade the j nations s image,” the Jnter?l tor Minister (Mr John Poel said. — Port Moresby. i Opera strike i] Artists of the Metropolitan Opera in New York - were on strike on Thursday rj— the first full dav of their , | second strike in six years h However, a Metropolitan •spokeswoman said the scheduled opening night on [October 13 would not be (postponed. The previous I Metropolitan Opera strike the °P en * n B Of the 1969-/0 season for three 'months. —New York. | ■inti-cholera teams . of doctors are I headed for Patua, the flooded capital of Bihar state m (India, to stem a cholera epidemic which has killed at least 50 persons. The mon ■ soon floods, said to be the worst for 150 years, have {left about one million peopl<* [without food and drinking i water. — New Delhi.