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Press, 30 August 1985, Page 6

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Boy for Jagger and Jerri Mick Jagger’s girlfriend, the model, Jerri Hall, gave birth to their second child yesterday, a 3.2 kg, blond boy who is the couple’s first son. The Rolling Stones singer was present at an undisclosed New York hospital when Miss Hall gave birth. “Both the baby and mother are healthy and whole and happy,” said Jagger’s publicist. No name has been given to the child. Jagger, aged 42, and Miss Hall, aged 29, have one daughter, Scarlet Elizabeth, aged 17 months. Jagger has two other daughters: Jade, aged 12, from his marriage to Bianca Perez Morena de Macias, and Karis, aged 13, by actress Marsha Hunt. — New York. Tower bombed Three bombs badly damaged an 80m high tower crane at a controversial high-rise Perth development by the multi-millionaire, Alan Bond, early yesterday, Australian Police said. The bombs, believed to be gelignite, were planted at three corners of the base of the crane, causing structural damage and forcing the evacuation of six people from nearby apartments. Mr Bond’s Bond Corporation has run into local opposition to the development in the beachside suburb of Scarborough. — Perth. Samantha praised The actor Robert Wagner and a Soviet diplomat joined hundreds of people in Augusta, Maine, for the burial yesterday of Samantha Smith, aged 13, who two years ago was a guest in Moscow of the late Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov. Samantha died with her father and six others when their small plane crashed on landing. “We saw this small girl as the great ambassador,” said Vladmir Kulagin, first secretary at the Soviet' Embassy in Washington, whom the State Department had allowed to attend the funeral. — Augusta. Extradition move Australia will sign an extradition treaty with the Irish Republic six months after its most wanted man, Robert Trimbole, slipped through the fingers of police in Ireland’s courts. The Australian Attorney-General, Mr Lionel Bowen, is due in Dublin next week to sign the treaty as part of a European tour to cement new deals for exchanging fugitives with seven Western European nations. — London.

Sikh boycott Sikh militants have announced that they will boycott Punjab state elections next month and oppose the recent peace accord with the Indian Prime Minister, Mr Rajiv Gandhi. State authorities said police would guard all candidates and 25,000 paramilitary troops would stand by. - Amritsar. Mistrust grows Increasing mistrust between Afghanistan and Pakistan threatens progress at official talks aimed at seeking a settlement in the Afghan war. The talks have also been overshadowed by reports of a new offensive by Soviet troops against guerrillas fighting the Marxist Kabul Government. — Geneva. Girls killed Two sisters aged six and seven were killed by electric shock when a hair dryer accidently fell into their bathtub, police said. — Los Angeles. Tough drug laws India’s Parliament has approved a tough new law to punish drug traffickers with sentences of between 10 and 30 years and fines of up to 300,000 rupees ($46,900). - New Delhi. Chinese U.F.O.s More than 600 unidentified flying objects have been sighted in China in the last five years according to the first U.F.O. seminar held in China. About 40 scientists attended the seminar in Dalian city, north-east China, and 40 papers were presented concerning U.F.O. sightings in China, research methods for the study of U.F.O.s and hypotheses concerning the nature of unidentified flying objects, the • New China News Agency reports. China set up a U.F.O. research society in 1981 and the society and its branches now has 20,000 members, many of whom are professors and scientists. — Peking. Soldier killed for card The Left-wing Red Army Faction said it had killed a United States soldier for his identity card in order to plant a bomb, which killed two Americans, at the United States airbase in Frankfurt on August 8. “We shot Edward Pimental ... because we needed his identity card to get into the airbase,” the faction said in a typewritten letter to a newpaper. — Frankfurt.