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Press, 17 October 1987, Page 10

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Toe in till

A woman got her toe into the till of a Bahrain bank for 28,000 dinars ($113,250). A court heard that the woman employee of the Standard Chartered Bank forged the thumbprints of illiterate savers by covering her big toe with ink and standing on cash withdrawal forms. — Bahrain. Octogenarian jailed A 82-year-old Dutchman who took to drug trafficking to buy. a car and finance trips to Mediterranean resorts was sentenced to 12 years in jail by a French court. The former taxi-driver, Wilhelm Binderot, who will be 95 on his release, was arrested in March on the Franco-Spanish border with 7kg of heroin hidden in his car. A man with a passion for cars and travelling, Binderot said he turned to trafficking to help fund 15 trips to Turkey and six to Morocco and Spain. — Bayonne. Bomb deaths

A man jilted by his bus conductor girlfriend set off a bomb on her tourist bus in south China, killing them both and injuring 18 people. The official China News Service, monitored

in Hong Kong, said those injured in the blast in Fuzhou city were all Chinese. — Hong Kong. Star study Teams of scientists and engineers from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are converging on the South Australian outback town of Woomera to prepare for a series of rocket launches scheduled for next month. A number of NASA staff have already arrived to prepare a launching platform sat the ; remote town, about 600 km north-west of Adelaide. The United States has chosen Woomera as the launch pad for' a series of scientific missions to study a new exploding star, Supernova 1987 A.—Adelaide. ' • Two killed Two people were killed and 18 injured in z an explosion aboard a tourist bus in south China, the China News Service said. The news agency said the cause of the blast; near the city of Fuzhou, was not known. Alt of the casualties were Chinese.— Hong Kong. . P