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Press, 9 August 1985, Page 6

Cable briefs

In-scent-ive A clothes factory in Canton has hit on the idea of making scented shirts, and fashion-conscious buyers are snapping them up. The collars of the shirts are impregnated with perfume, which is guaranteed to last for six months. — Peking.

Train deaths Fifty-eight people were killed and 160 injured on Saturday when a train derailed’ in Mozambique’s northern Nampula province. A Government spokesman said the accident occurred on the railway line between the port of Nacala and the Malawian border. — Maputo. Police break-up Chile will dissolve its police intelligence unit because of a court ruling that the unit’s head was involved in the killings of three Communists, the paramilitary police chief, General Rodolfo Stange, said. “I can announce that D.1.C.0.MC.A.R. will be terminated,” he said. “I will do everything within human reach to give the country once again the image of the Carabinero (police) it always had.” — Santiago. Singer dies Moses Lamarr, who sang in Broadway musicals in the 1950 s and was the dog Pluto’s voice in Walt Disney movies, has died. He was 68. His Swiss wife, Elisabeth, said he died of heart failure. The bass singer had roles in “Carmen Jones,” “Show Boat,” and other hits. — Zurich. Ice-cream tainted West German health authorities have seized imported Italian ice-cream base laced with a poison like the anti-freeze chemical discovered in some Austrian, German, and Italian wines. The chemical, diethylene glycol monoethyl ether, was found in 80kg of ice-cream base imported from Turin by a local wholesaler. Used as a paint solvent, the chemical is banned from use in foodstuffs. Federal health authorities were examining the material, a dark brown paste used to flavour icecream, to determine its toxicity. The anti-freeze- chemical diethylene glycol, which can cause kidney and brain damage, has so far been found in 362 Austrian wines, 16 German wines, and four Italian brands. — Wuppertal.