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Press, 5 September 1983, Page 10

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Balmoral bomb British Army experts have exploded a mortar-bomb found on the edge of the Queen’s Scottish estate at Balmoral where Royal Family members are visiting. The live bomb, believed to be many years old, was found in a stream a kilometre from a favourite Royal picnic site and about 10km from Balmoral Castle. Army authorities said the area was used as a gunnery practice range during World War 11. The bomb was found by a biologist collecting samples in the area. — London. Quins die

A childless woman gave birth to quintuplets nearly four months prematurely but the tiny newborns died just hours after birth. Jan Roberts, aged 28, delivered four girls and a boy by caesarean section at University of Alabama hospital. The infants, the first quintuplets

bom in Alabama, ranged in weight from one-third of a kilogram to half a kilogram, and were placed in an intensive care unit. — Birmingham. Rally banned

A Johannesburg magistrate has banned a rally called to launch a campaign for the release from jail of Nelson Mandela, considered by many South African blacks as one of the heroes of the black liberation movement. The meeting was due to have been held today at a church in the black city of Soweto. Execution by gas

A convicted child-killer, Jimmy Lee Gray, died in the Mississippi gas chamber on Friday, becoming the eighth American prisoner to be executed since the United States Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Gray, convicted in The 1976 rape and murder of a three-year-old girl, was the first person executed in Mississippi since 1964. — Jackson.