Doctors to await call in N.Z.

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34047, 10 January 1976, Page 15

Doctors to await call in N.Z.

(A.Z. Press Assn —uopyriguif DARWIN. I The International Committee of the Red Cross !i will withdraw the two New II Zealand doctors it had stationed in Darwin on !' stand-by for work in Timor. ■ The chief delegate of the if.C.R.C. in Darwin, Mr Hubert Jeanßichard, said “We have decided that I,the two doctors should reiturn to New Zealand im[mediately. "They will remain . on stand-by in New Zealand, 'however. We decided that [since New’ Zealand is only ■a short flight away, there [was no reason why the doc-,-tors should not go home.” Dr Murray Fosbender. of Dunedin, and Dr Don Barjclay, of New Plymouth, have been in Darwin for 22 days. "I will remain here on istand-by hoping that we will! be able to return to East Timor to continue our work,” Mr Jeanßichard said. The I.C.R.C. team had been evacuated from Timor at the same time as other Australian staff shortly before the Indonesian invasion, and had been on stand-by in Darwin 1 since. “We have been trying to return to Timor ever since we left,” Mr Jeanßichard said. “We will continue to seek permission through the I.C.R.C. headquarters in Geneva and the Indonesian Government in Jakarta.” story [ “Life” magazine financed ' a C.1.A.-supported raiding .party which sneaked into: .Cuba in 1963 to try to bring; i out two Russian techniciansj and was never heard of [again. a San Francisco [magazine has reported. — [San Francisco.