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Press, 21 February 1987, Page 10

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journalist

A British television journalist whose reporting on the United States raid on Libya was criticised by the Conservative Party as biased has won an award for her coverage of the attack. The Royal Television Society award to a 8.8. C. reporter, Kate Adie, was seen as a slap in the face to the Conservative Party chairman, Norman Tebbit, who complained about the network’s broadcasts from Tripoli. — London. N-plant closed Yugoslavia’s only nuclear power plant, built by Westinghouse Electric Corporation, has been closed indefinitely while experts examine the cause of frequent breakdowns. — Belgrade. Composer dies George Tibbles, the ; composer and writer who j helped put the manic... Woody Woodpecker’s laugh to music and ■■■ received an Academy' Award nomination for the effort, has died. He was 1 73. Mr Tibbles died at the Eisenhower Medical Centre. The cause of death was not disclosed. — Palm Desert.

Summit* plan

Two teams each made up of Nepalis, Japanese and Chinese plan to climb Mount Everest simultaneously by different routes in March, 1988, and meet at the summit in May. Japanese television would film the final stage of their ascents. — Peking. Six hang Malaysian prison authorities have hanged six convicted drug traffickers. They were hanged in northern Tailing Prison. Under Malaysia’s stiff anti-drug laws anyone in possession of specified quantities of drugs is presumed to be a trafficker and faces a mandatory death penalty. — Kuala Lumpur. Machinery plea A leading Soviet economist has said the Soviet Union must renew at least two-thirds of its machinery to bring it up to world standards and revitalise the country’s!, economy. Abel Aganbegyari told the weekly? J “Literaturnaya Gazeta” that central economic planners should concentrate on renovating and making more, use of existing industrial plants rather than building new ones. — Moscow.