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Press, 4 December 1981, Page 6

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i Wood funeral ; A sobbing Robert Wagner ' kissed the coffin bearing the i body of his wife, the actress i Natalie Wood, as it was ■ lowered into a tree-shaded I grave in Beverley Hills, i Celebrities including Lord | Olivier, David Niven, Frank j Sinatra, Gregory Peck. Fred ; Astaire and Roddy McDowell J were among the 90 members ! of the immediate family and j friends who gathered at the ! Westwood Memorial Park ' cemetery for the three-min- ! ute funeral service, coni ducted by a Russian Ortho- ! dox priest. Miss Wood's I grandparents were Russian. ! Miss Wood drowned at the > week-end. — Los Angeles. I Holden’s will ! William Holden, one of Hollywood’s richest actors, has bequeathed $U5250,000 to his long-time companion, the actress, Stefanie Powers. Most of his multi-million dollar estate will go to his family, according to his will filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court. Miss Powers, who co-stars with Robert Wagner in the “Hart to Hart” television series, had had a long-standing romance with Holden, who was found dead on November 16 in his apartment. She suffered another tragic loss this week when Wagner’s wife, Natalie Wood, drowned. Holden also left $50,000 each to two other women friends. — Los Angeles. Peking backs Salim China says it is totally committed to supporting a Third World candidate as the next Secretary-General of the United Nations, and has accused the United States of pitting itself against develop- ' ing countries. The official Xinhua News Agency accused the United States of “willingly playing into the hands of the Soviet Union" by opposing the Tanzanian Foreign Minister (Mr Salim Salim), the Third World's choice to suceed Dr Kurt Waldheim. — Peking. Old soldier dies A veteran of the World War I Battle of the Somme has died from his wounds. An inquest verdict on George Joseph Linthwaite recorded that he died “a victim of the King's enemy.” A pathologist said that there was a defect in the skull caused by a shrapnel wound and longstanding lung disease caused by wartime gassing. — London. Window breaker The police believe that one man is responsible for a twoyear racket in which up to *l2OO shop-front windows have been smashed throughout Melbourne, generating $750,000 worth of business in emergency window shutters and glazing. Detectives have taken 700 statements from shopkeepers who say that before their windows have been smashed stickers have appeared on their shop doors recommending a certain company for fixing security shutters until windows can be reglazed. The police say the window-smasher has a certain characteristic style — using either a round-head engineer’s hammer or a slingshot with White River gravel for ammunition. — Melbourne. Mugging insurance Two small insurance companies are chasing business in an ever-widening field — they are prepared to issue policies covering medical expenses if someone is mugged, and funeral expenses if they die as a result. R.L.I. Insurance, of Illinois and Bankers Insurance, of Florida, say that although they cannot prevent someone from being mugged, they can write a policy giving benefits ranging from $5OOO to $250,000, arranged to cover either medical or funeral expenses. Premiums depend on the insured’s occupation. One of the highest-rated jobs is that of a liquor-store worker, who could expect to pay $360 a year for a $250,000 policy. — New York. Oldest settlement The oldest traces of human life in Australia, dating back at least 40,000 years, have been uncovered north of Perth in West Australia. The relics, broken stone implements, were uncovered by accident in a clay bed near the banks of the Upper Swan River. Until this find the earliest evidence of human occupation had been confined to the eastern half of the country, according to a report in the “Australian." — I Sydney.

A-bomb race Argentina will have its own atomic bomb by the end of next year, beating Brazil in the race to make the first nuclear weapons in South America, according to the British journal, "New Scientist." It said it had learned that Argentina had secretly built a reprocessing plant for spent nuclear fuel near the international airport in Buenos Aires. It said American intelligence experts believed that Argentina was already testing a rocket that could deliver nuclear warheads. Argentina's Foreign Ministry had admitted that the country could build a nuclear device but denied it was doing *so. "New Scientist” said. — London.