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Press, 18 December 1976, Page 8

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Scraping the barrel Bedfordshire lawbreakers will receive with their summonses advertisements to join the police. The scheme is the idea of the Bedfordshire Chief Constable (Mr Anthony Armstrong), whose regional force is 50 members short of the establishment figure. “Of course, serious offenders cannot join the force. But we feel that minor offenders will see the error of their ways, and want to help prevent others from making the same mistakes,” a police spokesman said.— Bedford.

Idea not opposed Mr Olof Wahlgren, of Sweden, president of the International Press Institute, , has said that the 1.P.1. is not an opponent of the idea of the Third World establishing its own news agencies, but maintains that they should not be State-controlled, and should be a complement to existing agencies to increase the flow of information from the developing countries. At its conference in Nairobi last month, Unesco took a first step towards - meeting demands from developing countries for the establishment of a Third World news agency, adopting a resolution calling for the expenditure of about $500,000 on preliminary studies. — Copenhagen. Seoul trial South Korean Government prosecutors have asked the Court of Appeals in Seoul to hand down sentences of 10 years imprisonment on a former President, Yun Posun and a former Presidential candidate, Kim Dae-jung, for violating a ban on political dissension. They were sentenced to eight years by a lower court in August ! under an emergency Presidential decree after having !been convicted with 16 other ! Opposition and Christian (leaders. The accused issued (a statement last March, calling on President Park Chung-hee to resign and to ■ withdraw the country’s existing tough Constitution and the decree itself. — Seoul. 1 Bishops under fire A Greek Government Minister has accused the coun- [ try’s bishops of negligence ' in protecting the nation’s art ■ treasures, and has said that ■ he will introduce strong penalties for theft. The Minister iof Culture and Science (Mr ■ Constantine Tripanis) told ■ Parliament that most Greek i bishops had refused to allow archaeologists to make inf ventories, in spite of Gov--1 ernment appeals, and he t added that about 100 valur able icons had been stolen in I the last year, many of them smuggled abroad. —- Athens.