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Press, 24 June 1986, Page 10

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Motorway pile-up

Twelve people were killed in a motorway pileup on the M 4 near Maidenhead, Berkshire, in England, about 1 a.m. yesterday. Four vehicles were involved in the accident, one of them a minibus. Details were sketchy last evening. —London Singer ‘murdered’

An American singer who had lived in East Berlin since 1972 and was found dead in mysterious circumstances last week, may have been murdered, the “Sunday Times” said. Dean Reed, aged 47, was pulled from a lake on the outskirts of East Berlin last Tuesday. The official East German news agency, A.D.N. said the singer died as the result of a “tragic accident,” but the “Sunday Times” quoted Reed’s manager, Dixie Lloyd, as saying she was convinced that the singer was murdered because he had been talking

openly about leaving the Soviet bloc and returning to the United States.— London Actor marries The actor, Stacy Keach, who last year spent six months in a British prison after pleading guilty to smuggling cocaine, has married a Polish actress, Malgosia Tomassi, in a private church service.— Los Angeles Bomb defused British soldiers yesterday defused a 450 kg bomb planted by Irish guerrillas behind a country golf club. The massive bomb was planted a few metres from the site of the 1979 Warrenpoint massacre in which 19 British soldiers were killed. An army spokesman said the golf club bomb, concealed in fertiliser bags, was discovered on Friday and army bomb experts had been working until yesterday to defuse it.—Northern Ireland