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Press, 22 September 1983, Page 10

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Unusual tip Reports that waitresses in the French quarter clubs in New Orleans were receiving unusual tips, packets of cocaine, have led to the arrest of two men charged with having $NZ27,000 worth of the drug, Pablo Canovas, aged 35, of Gainesville, Florida, and Oscar Rodriguez, aged 37, of Miami, have been arrested.—New Orleans Satellite

abandoned India’s first locally-pro-duced experimental telecommunication satellite has been abandoned after 27 months in space and after completing its mission. The satellite, Apple, was abandoned after its fuel ran out. Apple surpassed its designed life by three months.—New Delhi.

A.S.E.A.N. link Arrangements are almost complete for the admission of the oil-rich sultanate of Brunei to the Association of South East Asian Nations after its independence from Britain next year. Brunei, a 3500 sq km British dependency which shares the island of Borneo with Malaysia and Indonesia, will become A.S.EAN.’s sixth member. The others are Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Philip-pines-Jakarta. 17 hanged Seventeen people convicted of drug trafficking have been hanged in Teheran’s Qasr prison. Three of the hanged were women.—Teheran. Two executed Two Peking workers have been executed for raping 10 women and wounding two of them with knives. The executions came amid a crackdown on crime that has brought scores of executions of convicted killers, rapists, robbers, arsonists and criminal gang leaders — Peking. New title Sir Harold Wilson, four times Prime Minister of Britain, is naming himself after a ruined Cistercian Abbey on his elevation to the House of Lords next month. Sir Harold, given a life peerage in June, has chosen the title Lord Wilson of Rievaulx, a spot in a rural comer of his native Yorkshire where the ruins of a twelfth century abbey stand. — London. Uniform legs A British policewoman has reached the finals of a national beauty contest The officer, Micheline Scagell, aged 23, from Paignton, Devon, said that pounding the beat had kept her in shape. She outpointed many of Britain’s leading models to reach/-the final of $e nations! “Miss Lovely Legs” competition. — London.