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Press, 25 August 1976, Page 9

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Tasteful thieves The Glasgow police are searching for a gang that stole art treasures worth nearly 5200.000 from a transit warehouse — and nine cases of whisky. The authorities admitted, however, they did not know if they were looking for art thieves or whisky. The art theft included statues by Rodin and Degas “We don’t know yet if we are looking for a gang of whisky thieves who struck it rich, or for art thieves who decided to take a few cases of whisky,” said a police spokesman. — Glasgow. \azi confession A former Dutch member of i the Nazi S.S. has admitted; to the police that he killed Polish Jews at a labour camp during World War 11, the Public Prosecutor has said in Rodermond, the Netherlands. The man. 58-year-oid L. G. Loijen. a factory worker from Hom, in the south-east Netherlands, was arrested last week on charges of complicity in the torture and deaths of hundreds of Polish Jews in the labour camp at Bobruysk, in Byelorussia,. during 1942 and 1943 — Rodermond. Car firm auctione-d An auctioneer's hammer has sounded the death knell for the prestige Jensen car| firm — and the; Government came under fire i for failing to save it. As a three-day sale of the com-'I

ipany’s assets began at West Bromwich, the assistant receiver (Mr Michael Williams) called it “criminal.”—London. Bishops hedge bets The U.S. Roman Catholic hierarchy will not endorse either political party in November’s election. But it will "speak out clearly” on issues such as abortion, Archbishop Joseph Bemardin has said.— i Washington. I Shah's treat The Shah of Iran has de-j |cided to grant an amnesty! 'to 307 prisoners sentenced by! I military tribunals. This] marks the fiftieth anniver-i sary of the founding' of the Palhavi Dynasty. The amnesty brings the total of prisoners released this year! to more than 1600.—Teheran, j Jaded giraffes Tje great British drought . is now threatening supplies ( of baby giraffes in Windsor Safari Park, where wardens , report the absence of fresh , green leaves is putting the adult giraffes off sex. —p London. Pepsi and vodka The Soviet Union will get 1 ] three new Peosi Cola plants < and pay for them i n vodka. ■ Pepsi Cola is already pro- J duced at Novorossiisk. The I plant was set up under a 10- y year contract signed in 1973. t This provided that expansion j of Pepsi production in the a Soviet Union depended on I the PepsiCo Corporation’s I -

success in selling Soviet vodka and wines in the United States.—Moscow. Abortions in India I More than 419,000 aborj tions have been carried out in India since abortion laws I were liberalised four years ! ago, the Indian Government has said in a statement in Parliament.—New Delhi. Caught short The producers of MartyFeldman’s remake of the film Beau Geste have advertised in The Times for a six foot stuntman with his left leg missing below the knee l to double for Peter Ustinov! in the Spanish Desert. They! have already tried Actors l equity and the Army —’ without success. — LON-, DON Lebanese aided More than 5000 Lebanese! have received medical treatment in Northern Israel since the setting up of a field hospital in mid-April to treat victims of the Lebanese civil war, military sources in Israel have said. Two-thirds of those treated were Maronite Christians, the rest Moslems, they added.—Metulla, Israel. Port full Exports of port wine from Portugal dropped by 13.2 per cent last year to a total of! 179.492 hecolitres (nearly 35M gallons), the official Port Wine Institute has said A statement by the institute. Earned the drop on depressed foreign economies! ind said the previous year' tad been particularly good. —Lisbon,