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Press, 7 June 1982, Page 6

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Doctors dismayed Patrick Bishop, of the "Ob. server." says in a dispatch from the Falklands: Doctors at a field dressing,..station have been appalled by the condition of some of the Argentine casualties who have been brought in for treatment. He said he had been told that one young soldier was found to have two inches (scm) of bone missing from his upper arm. He was shot in the early stages of the Goose Green fighting, but the entry and exit wounds had been patched up with surgical staples and he was sent back to his trench. Another Argentinian had been found face down in a dug-out with a wound through his throat, apparently left for dead. He was recovering after a tracheotomy.—London. Papers’ campaign The editors of the "Sunday Times" and the “Observer” have announced the launching of an international campaign to free the three British journalists imprisoned in Argentina. Simon Winchester of the "Sunday Times” and lan Mather and Tony Prime of the “Observer" were arrested eight weeks ago while reporting on the Falklands crisis, and charged with spying. They have been held without bail in a police cell at Ushuaia. in southern Argentina. The papers will annouce the setting up of an international committee chaired by Dr Garret Fitzgerald. one-time journalist, barrister and former Prime

Minister of Ireland, the “Sunday Times" said.—London. Carpet crosses Almost 1000 Britons haveordered souvenir crosses cut from the carpet on which the Pope John Paul stood while celebrating his last Mass in Britain, in Cardiff. Each of the crosses measures 15 x 7.5 x 2.5 cm and costs $12.08. The crosses will be sold in a special presentation box with a bishop's authenticating signature on the back. The supplier said it planned to split any profit with the Papal Fund.—London. Doctor graduates Allan Bakke, whose assertion that he had been denied admission to . a medical school because he was white was upheld by the United States Supreme Court, has graduated as a doctor. About 1000 spectators, including families and friends of the 98 graduating students, gave Mr Bakke, aged 42. an ovation lasting several minutes when he received his medical diploma at the University of California. The United States Supreme Court ruled four years ago that Mr Bakke should be admitted to the university's medical school because he had unlawfully been denied admission because he was white. He was rejected in favour of lessqualified students from minority groups because the school’s entry programme provided that 16 of every 1100 students accepted should come from black and other ethnic groups.—San Francisco.