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Press, 2 August 1983, Page 10

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Catholic ceremony Prince and Princess Michael of Kent have been married in a Catholic ceremony, gaining the Church’s official recognition for their five-year union. Until the dispensation by the Pope, the marriage of the Prince, an Anglican, and the Princess, a Catholic divorcee, was not sanctioned by the Catholic Church, which does not approve of divorce. They were married in a civil service in Vienna in 1978. — London. Women crushed Nine women were crushed to death under the wheels of a goods train at Deoghar, in north-eastern Bihar, the Press Trust of India reports. The women, who had been picking burnt coal off the railway track, took shelter under the wheels of a stationary goods train during rain. Shortly afterwards the train moved off, killing the women. — New Delhi. Heat havoc Nearly 50 people have drowned in Japan and South Korea as people thronged beaches and rivers to escape sweltering (northern) summer temperatures. Thirty-three Japanese people drowned and two others were missing and feared dead as the temperature in Tokyo reached 32.7 deg. In South Korea, 14 people drowned as nearly four million South Koreans flocked to beaches seeking relief from temperatures of more than 30 deg. — Tokyo. Sailing again A Maine sailor who last year set a record for sailing the smallest boat across the Atlantic has set sail today on a three-year, around-the-world voyage which he hopes will set another record. William Dunlop, aged 42, left on the tide amid a flotilla of spectator boats in his tightly packed, 2.71 m craft, Wind’s Will. If he completes the voyage it will set the record for the smallest vessel to circumnavigate the globe. — Portland, Maine. Still not enough China has trebled its beer output since 1978 but still faces a serious shortage, especially in North China’s summer heat of 35 deg. to 37 deg., the official Xinhua news agency reports. Production of 100,000 tonnes a year had met only half of Peking’s demand. Beer sells for 37C to 61c a litre. — Peking. Early ‘popping 9 The popping of “champagne” made by a Peking winery has not been a cause for rejoicing — whole bottles have been exploding regularly before the customers open them, the Peking “Evening News” reports. One customer had complained that his bottle blew into 100 pieces 30 minutes after he had taken it home, and “luckily the children weren’t nearby,” the newspaper said. The problem was with bottles’ being reused, and engineersfcere trying to find a solutioiF'— Peking.