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Press, 9 August 1976, Page 8

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Sorority “My God, this is the end of my life,” Natalie Voudoukis told her husband after learning that her 72-year-old sister was dead. Two hours later, she suffered a heart attack and died. Services were held for both women ion Saturday. “You see, they were inseparable in life,” John Voudoukis said. "Natalie always did everything Lillian did, and I guess she just had to die like her sister, too.”—Pompano Beach. Florida. More Michelangelo Dozens of architectural sketches done by Michelangelo in 1530 have been discovered in the course of restoration work on the Basilica of Saint Laurence in Florence. Experts said the designs were probably connected with the Library of' Laurenziana. which Michelangelo helped design. Among the sketches are some of the’

iwindow designs of the library. Last May, 56 other sketches by Michelangelo were found nearby. — Florence. Vat icon criticised I The unfrocked former ab<bot of a Roman Catholic monastery has said he has no confidence in the Vatican, and will not appeal against the Church’s recent decision to deprive him of his priestly status. Giovanni Battista Franzoni, former abbot of Rome’s Benedictine monastery of Saint Paul Without the Walls, was reduced to lay status by the Vicar of Rome (Cardinal Ugo Poletti), last Wednesday.—Rome. M orality u pheld A judge, in Virginia. briefly gaoled a woman who, is three months pregnant be-' cause she lives with her! fiance although they are not! married. Judge Paul Brown: discovered that Karen Ann I Caudell, aged 18, was .living I

I with her fiance when he I questioned her after . she • pleaded guilty on Wednes day to a larceny charge, and . (ordered her to stop living ( I with him. “It’s against the daw to live with somebodx as husband and wife when (you are not married to him | It’s a no-no,” Judge Brown [told the woman. Brown .(ordered her gaoled until she ifound housing with her ■ .fiance’s mother three hour Jlater. — Arlington. j Brutal shoot in p A gunman shot and wounded a 32-year-old Roman Catholic in front of his four children in the garden of his home in west Belfast on Saturday. Philip Goulding was building a dog kennel when the gunman leapt over the fence and fired five shots at ‘him. Only one hit him, (wounding him seriously in the , thigh. Neighbours found him iin a pool of blood and drag (ged him indoors as his [screaming children watched ■He was rushed to a hospital (for emergency surgerv.—BelI fast.