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Press, 14 August 1976, Page 6

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‘.Vo devaluation' The Australian Prime Miii-i ister (Mr Fraser) has ruled out any suggestion that Australia might devalue the dollar. “I make it quite plain it is not in our thinking,” he said. — Launceston. Carter's nephew hurt The nephew of the Presidential contender, Jimmy Carter, has suffered superficial stab wounds at the California state prison in Vacaville, but prison officials have said they did not know if he was attacked or inflicted the wounds himself. A California Department of Corrections spokesman, Mr Phil Guthrie, said William Carter Spann, aged 29, serving time at the California Medical Facility for robbery, was treated on Sunday for several superficial puncture wounds on one shoulder. — Vacaville. Dope with coffee About 90 per cent of coffee-stalls in Kuala Lumpur are used as fronts for pushing drugs, the Deputy Criminal Investigation Chief (Mr Liew Ung Lin) has said. There are more than 1000' such stalls in the city. —i Kuala Lumpur, I Town asks for key back The Board of Aidermen in Louisville, Kentucky, wants the Communist, Angela; Davis, to give back the key to the city she received a month ago. The board voted, 7-2 on Tuesday night to ask Ms Davis to return the ceremonial key and a certificate of appreciation given her on July 13 when she addressed a predominantly black audience at a Louisville church. The Mayor, Harvey Sloane, has said he was unaware’ such recognition was bestowed on the Californian; radical, that the matter was! handled by one of his aidesi without his knowledge. Arms for Iran The United States is to draw up a SUS2OOM logistics system for the Iranian, Air Force, including the

[training of the necessary}, [personnel, the Defence Department has announced ini' Washington. The Pentagon} also informed Congress that 1 it was about to sell Iran [ SUSII4.4M worth of artil- 1 lery ammunition. — Wash- J ington. j I I ”• I isas Five great-grandchildren 11 of Mahatma Gandhi have 11 been refused passports by the South African Govern- ‘ ment, it has been stated in the Indian Parliament. Gan- , dhi, the revolutionary asce- J tic who led India’s indepen- ! dence struggle against Brit- , ain, forged his methods of ; non-violence while living in ‘ South Africa where he j championed the rights of In- * dian immigrant workers in , the early years of the cen- ‘ tury. — New Delhi. Second war charge A Dutchman who served with the Nazi S.S. in World War II has been arrested t and charged with killing and I torturing hundreds of Jews I at a concentration camp in r Russia, Justice Department t officials in Holland have 1 said. The man was identified it at L. J. Loyen, aged 58, now t employed as a factory if worker in southern HoliandJv —Roermond. ; t It Liechtenstein's party s The tiny Alpine principal-! ity of Liechtenstein is this 11 week celebrating the seventieth birthday of the mani [who turned it into an inter-p 1 national tax haven — its 1 ruler, Prince Franz-Josef ll.is Concerts and parties began on Monday and will con-1 tinue daily until August 18|I in the 160sq.km territory ofj( 24,000 people, wedged be-'c tween Austria and Switzer- t land. —Vaduz. e j College's still A copper still used to’j [make untold gallons of ille- ( [gal moonshine in the moun-[ tains of Virginia has been; turned over to Ferrum College for display in its farmU museum. The 50-year-old t still, confiscated from a sus- t pected moonshiner last v spring by the Alcoholics Beverage and Control Board.it was obtained by the college I under a special court permit..! — Ferrum. j<

i Safety campaigns aimed at [keeping drunk drivers off the roads may be aimed at marijuana smokers as well as drinkers of alcohol. Dr Robert Dupont, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said that research advances in measuring mariijuana in the human body I make it possible to establish [specific correlations between I pot smoking and driving imjpairment. — Washington. Fire on tanker Fourteen people have been injured in a fire aboard a Panamanian tanker in Hong Kong. A Government spokesman identified the ship as the 12,347 ton Dong Jiang, under repair in Kowloon. He said the injured were workers on board the ship who were affected by petroleum vapour when the ship caught fire. — Hong Kong. Arabs in Israel South Lebanese villagers will be permitted to visit relatives in Israel, the Israeli Defence Minister (Mr Shimon Peres) has said. ’’Wa are providing medical care, hospitalisation, allowing ithem to work in Israel, and to purchase badly needed i food, so I do not know why we should not permit them to visit relatives and the holy places after the necessary security checks.” he told reporters. —Jerusalem. i Council unseated I The municipal council of Mombasa, Kenya's second[largest city, has been disIsolved following allegations |of corruption and other irreIgularities in its affairs. The Local Government Minister [(Mr Robert Matano) who [ordered the dissolution, has also postponed indefinitely elections for the office of Mayor of Nairobi, held by Miss Margaret Kenyatta, a daughter of President Jomo Kenyatta. Railway 'open soon' I The Bengueia railway linkling Angola’s Lobito port on the Atlantic with the copper belts of Zaire and Zambia will begin normal operations as soon as technical conditions have been met. Radio Luanda has reported in a .broadcast monitored in Lon< j don. — London.