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Press, 9 April 1977, Page 8

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Beatles beaten The four ex-ex-Beatles have lost a high court bid to ban the release of a twin album based on “informal and unrehearsed” tapes made in their pre-superstar | days. A judge refused a plea by the group and their company, Apple, for injunctions] stopping a London based company, Lingasong, releasing the record. The tapes were said to have been made in Germany using a domestic tape recorder and one microphone, with the knowledge of the Beatles. — London. Moscow talks The Cuban President (Dr Fidel Castro) and Soviet leaders have held a second round of talks in the Kremlin, apparently mapping out their countries future African strategy. — Moscow. SIM bonds raid The Canadian police have arrested three men and seized Nazi bonds with a face value of more than SIM, apparently from a huge batch that disappeared at the end of World War Two. Investigators say that the bonds could be negotiable if those who held them traced their ownership to 1945. Stand praised Mr Li Shi-nein, the Chinese Vice-Premier, has told the visiting leader of the British Opposition Conservative Party, Mrs Margaret Thatcher, that he appreciates her voicing her firm views on East-West detente. — Peking. Search continues The five-day-old search for victims of a huge flash flood that swept away a Northern Territory cattle station homestead last week continued yesterday. Already l four bodies have been found] by a special emergency | police squad airlifted into the flood zone. 240 km south] of Darwin, and the police! believe that at least two! more bodies could be discovered. — Darwin.