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Press, 21 August 1976, Page 6

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Protest broken up The police have broken up| a demonstration by anti-; apartheid supporters protest-! ing against the participationof five South African players! in the inaugural world; women's squash champion-; ship in Brisbane. More than--120 police formed lines to! push about 80 demonstrators] away from the squash centre; in suburban Stafford where; the championships are being; conducted. — Brisbane. Kissiii ger mcm oirs Friends of American Sec-j retary of State (Dr Henry; Kissinger) say he is seeking! quick financial independence,: offering to sell his memoirs; and considering writing columns, the Boston ‘‘Globe’’; reports. However, the! “Globe” said, Dr Kissinger’s friends say he would be; happy to continue as secre-i tary of state if President; Ford is elected. Dr Kissinger, is offering his memoirs to! publishers for S2M and am open-ended promise of a chartered jet and limousines; while he gathers material; and • writes them. the- “ Globe” said. —Boston. I Islands calm i Life went on as usual ini 'the Anglo-French New HebI rides group, 10 days after the passing of a deadline; I given the authorities to; [“get out.” The Na-Griameli ' Federation. a pro - independence group claiming the; ! support of 27.000 of the New Hebrides’ 90.000 people, ■ issued the ultimatum in (April to the British and ; French joint administrators [of the New Hebrides. —- I Vila. New Hebrides.

Hays lawsuits i The United States Justice! [Department has urged a! [Federal judge to dismiss; [three private suits brought! ( against Congressman Wavne [Hays and his former secre-[ [tary, Elizabeth Ray. Miss' [Ray, an aspiring blonde ac-! -[tress, claimed recently that! ;| Congressman Hays had put, -[her on the Congressional! I payroll as his mistress. The' [three actions were brought! [by private citizens under a [statute which allows members of the public to sue! [people who they feel have! J been misusing Government [funds. The Government is -making its own criminal in-' •vestigation. — Washington. [ ! L eel u rer escapes A West German lecturer[who escaped from custody "in Uganda and then took "refuge in the West German; [Ambassador’s residence in Kampala has arrived in [Bonn. Dietrich Babeck, a 48- ! year-old lecturer at Uganda’s H College of Technology, spent H about two weeks at the resi‘dence after escaping from '[prison following his arrest; [on August 1. — Bonn. Bombs in Brazil ij Bombers, apparently Right-: •wing extremists, have at two Brazilian known for >|their defence of human 1; rights. One of their bombs -'exploded in the lavatories of lithe Brazilian Press Associa“tion causing extensive damcage but no injuries. A second Lbomb was found and defused Pin the Brazilian Bar Associas tion after an anonymous -[telephone call. — Rio de I Janeiro.

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General Alexander Haig, [Supreme Allied Commander [of the North Atlantic Treaty (Organisation, has said that [[N.A.T.O. must improve its . conventional weapons capa- ’ bility or it will have to . depend on early nuclear ac- ; tion in case of war. “No-one .[here suggests we are adopting a strategy for increased [dependence on nuclear [weapons,” General Haig told [[reporters at a briefing on Jthe annual autumn force [N.A.T.O. manoeuvres. — ’ Casteau, Belgium. [ I.arrot contraceptive Chewing dry carrot seeds ;;can prevent pregnanes, according to some Indian , scientists, Agence France Presse reports. A team ol [zoologists from Rajasthan I University, in north India, "who recently investigated [this-method, which has been : practised by the rural population of the state for gen-i-erations, found that chewing carrot seeds indeed prevent’ • pregnancy. Their ex"periments on mice reported "in the Indian Journal of Experimental Biology suggests ilthat extract of carrot seed? (taken for a few days aftei ! intercourse prevents pregI nancy by inhibiting imp'an[tation of the fertilised egg is the uterus. — New Delhi. ). Tiro die in slips Two people have beet '[killed in landslides near the ’Adriatic holiday resort of ■ Pesaro, Italy, after the area '[was hit by heavy rain an< ■'thunderstorms. The bodies ol a 54-year-old woman and j '[ 14-year-old girl, both believe* Ito be Italian, were fount underneath mud - coveret -jears on a coastal road. — I Pesaro.