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Press, 21 May 1981, Page 8

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Everything but ... Stafford County’s new $6 million sewage treatment plant has all the latest features to turn sewage into water clean enough to drink. Just one small thing was forgotten — an outlet pipe. The missing pipe “was a design oversight,” said Freeman Funk, of the engineering ■ firm which designed the plant. “The pipe was apparently left out of the drawings for the plant because another pipe shown was mistaken for it during the plant’s design,” he said. A very annoyed county board of supervisors has appropriated $12,000 to install the pipe. “We’v got to approve this,” said a supervisor. “The plant’s no good without it.”—Stafford, Virginia. Soviets honour spy The Soviet Union has built a monument to its World War Two spy, Richard Sorge, the first time such a public honour has been bestowed on a Soviet agent, Tass news agency said the monument had been erected in Baku, capital of Soviet Azerbaijan, where Sorge spent. some of his childhood. It was unveiled at a ceremony timed to mark the thirty-sixth anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. Sorge half- : German and half-Russian,

headed a Soviet spy ring in Tokyo from 1933 to 1941. He gained access to German secrets that enabled him to warn Moscow of imminent German invasion. He was

executed after being caught by the Japanese.—Moscow. Senator guilty Senator Harrison William has been found guilty on all nine counts of conspiracy and bribery in connection with the so-called Abscam political corruption scandal that rocked the United States Congress. The 61-year-old New Jersey Democrat was the only senator to be indicted in the Abscam case in which F. 8.1. agents posed as emissaries of a wealthy Arab sheikh trying to buy influence with Congressmen and other public officials. Six members of the House of Representatives were convicted of charges related to the case in earlier trials.— New York. Soldiers held Six members of El Salvador’s Armed Forces are in custody over the killing of three Roman Catholic nuns and a Church lay worker from the United States, the Defence Minister (Mr Jose Guillermo Garcia) has confirmed. He did not identify . the suspects or give details. The United States Embassy had been, notified. Robert White, the former United States Ambassador to El Salvador, has said that the Salvadorean Government has arrested six soldiers for the killings. -San Salvador. ''