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Press, 8 September 1976, Page 8

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Enduring love Aristotle Onassis, the late Greek tycoon, was deeply in love with Mrs Jackie Kennedy even before President John Kennedy was assassinated, the London “Daily Mirror” columnist, Peter Senn, has written. Senn said that Onassis fell in love with America’s first lady when she cruised on his yacht, Christina, after the death of her premature baby, Patrick. His report quoted Willi Frischauer, author of the book, “Jackie,” and a longtime close personal friend of Onassis, as saying: “He was deeply in love with her in 1963, well before President Kennedy’s death.” —London. Crash toll 35 A total of 35 persons were killed in a train crash southeast of Johannesburg on Monday night. Railway officials and the South African Press Association re-

ported that a passenger train bound from Johannesburg to the black township southeast of Johannesburg at Bennoi, some 30km away, crashed at full speed into an express train bound for the Mozambique capital, Maputo. —Johannesburg. Leyland challenge British Leyland, Britain’s biggest motor manufacturers, which was bailed out by the Government last year, has thrown down the gauntlet to militant workers who have produced a run of wildcat strikes. The company has refused to reopen its huge plant at Longbridge, in the Midlands, closed for a week because of a strike, until its 18,000 workers promise to behave. The plant will remain closed — at a daily cost of the lost production of new cars worth EIM — until the men promise to end wildcat stoppages and go-slows.— London.

Deaths confirmed Vietnam has officially confirmed the deaths of 12 United States airmen reported missing in action over North Vietnam during the IndoChina war. A statement issued by the Vietnam Embassy' in Paris said the Vietnamese authorities had only just received confirmation of the deaths of the seven air force and five navy pilots. The embassy said it hoped the United States would match the good will showm by Vietnam on the missing-in-action issue by taking “concrete steps towards settling post-war problems between the two countries.” —Paris. Rooftop convicts Forty-one prisoners, demanding better gaol conditions, spent the night on the roof of Verviers Penitentiary, about 20km east of ; Liege. I No incidents were reported between the prisoners, most t>f whom were foreigners, and police on the scene.— [ Liege.