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Press, 17 June 1983, Page 6

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Baby to die

A three-month-old baby who underwent surgery for a urinary blockage while still in the womb has been sent home from hospital to die because of incurable kidney problems. “Technically, there’s nothing that can be done for him,” Barbara Williams said of her son, Isaac. “His kidneys are not functioning and he’s too small for a transplant. They say dialysis would only prolong what is going to happen anyway.” — Las Vegas. Shergar pay-out Lloyd’s of London, the insurance underwriters, have agreed to pay out an undisclosed sum to some owners of the kidnapped champion racehorse, Shergar. Shergar, winner of the English and Irish Derbys, was valued at £lO million sterling (SNZ24 million). The racehorse, seized by armed men from an Irish stud farm in February, was owned by a 34-member syndicate headed by the Aga Khan. — London. Boxer dies

A Filipino boxer has died after a four-round fight, the first boxer to die in the country from injuries suffered in the ring this year and the seventh since January last year, the Philippine “Daily Expressed” reports. Rudy Hidalgo, aged 22, who turned professional only last year, failed to answer the fourth round bell in his fight, and complained of dizziness. He died later in hospital from what doctors said was a cerebral haemorrhage. — Manila.

Mine deaths

Six miners have been killed and 10 injured, eight of them critically, in a blast at the Beta mine of the Komlo coalfield in southern Hungary. Mining authorities and the police have begun an investigation into the cause of the accident. — Budapest. Plane off ship A British Sea Harrier jump-jet which made an emergency landing on a Spanish freighter has been lifted off the ship after a week of wrangling over salvage terms. Dockworkers at the Canary Island port used a mobile crane to raise the plane from the ship’s deck where it came down at sea after running short of fuel. — Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Cocaine found The police and Customs officers seized 30 kilos of cocaine from three women disguised as nuns at Charles de Gaulle airport. The three, who were not identified, were arrested after arriving from Bogota. The cocaine, with a street value of about ?U53.14 million, was found under their habits. — Paris. Tin pact Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand, which produce two-thirds of the world’s tin, will ratify a pact in Bangkok to set up the Association of Tin Producing Countries. The three, with Bolivia, Australia, Nigeria, and Zaire, agreed in London in March to form the association. — Kuala Lumpur.