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Press, 15 June 1983, Page 6

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Calvi inquest A second inquest on the Italian banker, Roberto Calvi, has started with the jury visiting the London bridge where he was found hanging from scaffolding last June. The Calvi family, who say that the banker was mprdered, won the right to a fresh hearing in March when a British High Court quashed an earlier verdict of suicide. Mr Calvi’s body was found hanging by the neck under Blackfriars bridge over the River Thames. — London. Jakarta sorry Indonesia has expressed regret to Papua New Guinea after Indonesian workers began building a road I.skm across their common border. The Indonesian Foreign Minister, Dr Mochtar Kusumaatmadja, said: “Indonesia regrets the incident but has reassured Papua New Guinea that it was not intentional.” A check by a navigational satellite had confirmed Port Moresby’s complaint in April that the road was in Papua New Guinea’s territory and a new road would be built on the Indonesian side of the border. — Jakarta. Cruise request Washington has formally asked Canada for permission to test the cruise missile over Canada’s frozen north early next year, says the Defence Minister, Mr Gilles Lamontagne. Covered in an umbrella defence agreement signed by the two countries in February, the proposal would be considered by defence officials and a recommendation put to the Cabinet of Pierre Trudeau, he said. The proposal has sparked widespread demonstrations in Canada, where 52 per cent of the people questioned by pollsters objected to cruise testing. — Ottawa. Forced landing Two French astronauts and a Soviet cosmonaut had to make a forced landing in a cauliflower field in Brittany when the light aircraft in which they were flying had engine trouble. Paris international. air show organisers said that Jean Loup Chretien, who took part in a FrancoSoviet Salyut space flight, his French colleague, Patrick Boudry, and a Soviet cosmonaut, Anatoli Berezovoy, had just taken off from Morlaix airfield when the incident happened—Paris.