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Press, 16 May 1985, Page 6

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Divorce filed The singer, Marie Osmond, has filed for divorce from her husband, Steve Craig, following a six-month separation and the failure of reconciliation attempts. In papers filed in 4th district court at Provo, Utah, Miss Osmond alleged Craig had treated her cruelly, causing her great mental distress. Miss Osmond, aged 25, is seeking $1 a year alimony, reasonable child support and custody of the couple’s son, Stephen James Craig, aged two. — Provo, Utah. Suicide suspected One of Hong Kong’s most popular film actresses, Yung Mei-Ling, was found dead in her gas-filled apartment on Tuesday, a police spokesman said. He said Miss Yung, aged 26, was found by a male friend who went to see her because she sounded upset during a telephone call. Miss Yung was the leading

actress in the Kung-Fu television opera, “The Legend of the Condor Heroes,” a romantic saga about a Chinese girl during the Mongolian invasion of China in the thirteenth century. — Hong Kong. Minister jailed A Court has sentenced a former Minister and leading dissident, Haji Mohammad Sanusi, to 19 years jail for his role in bombings that killed two people in Jakarta last October. Sanusi, aged 64, had denied allegations under the Subversion Act that he provided 600,000 rupiah (about SNZI2OO) to help finance the bombings of a bank and a shop, and to obtain six detonators. Handing down the 19 year sentence, the senior judge dismissed later evidence from several witnesses who first implicated Sanusi in the bomb plot but afterwards retracted their statements. — Jakarta.

‘Life’ sentence

A Barcelona Court sentenced a man to 592 years imprisonment yesterday on 40 counts of rape, two attempted rapes and seven indecent assaults, officials said. Francisco Lopez Maillo, aged 23, was known as “the rapist of Ensanche” after a working-class neighbourhood in the northern Spanish city where most of the crimes were committed. Spanish law limits actual time in jail to 30 years, after which parole is mandatory. — Barcelona, Spain.

Murderer dies Jesse de la Rosa, aged 24, who was convicted of murdering a shop assistant in a robbery that netted only a six-pack of beer, has been executed by injection. He was the eleventh person executed in the United States this year and the forty-third since executions resumed in 1977. — Huntsville, Texas.