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Press, 28 December 1987, Page 8

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Drugs destroyed

Pakistani Customs authorities have started destroying drugs worth millions of dollars in what officials said was the largest such operation in the world. The destruction of 1500 kg of heroin, 75,000 kg of hashish and 125 kg of hashish oil began in Peshawar on the border with Afghanistan and would continue for two days, officials said. — Islamabad. Fromme recaptured Prison guards recaptured the Manson cult member, LyneUe “Squeaky” Fromme, who was jailed for life for the attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford. Fromme was captured a short distance away from a federal prison from which she escaped the day before, United States marshals said. —Aiderson, West Virginia.

Everest record? Two Asian moun-

taineers have conquered Mount Everest and may be the first climbers ever to reach the top of the world’s highest peak in winter without the help of oxygen, the Nepalese Tourism Ministry said. The Ministry did not know for sure whether a Korean, Heo Young Ho, and Ang Rita Sherpa, of Nepal, used bottled oxygen at any time during their climb to the 8848 m summit on December 22. Ang Rita, aged 40, has a distinguished mountaineering career which includes three earlier ascents of Everest, all without the help of bottled oxygen. —Katmandu. Glider arrives A motorised glider that left Austria 37 days before arrived in Chiba, Japan, on Saturday. The 6.5m10ng glider, named Tirol, left Vienna with two Japanese pilots, Makoto Miyazawa and Takashi Katoh, on board and stopped in more than 20 cities on its 20,000 km journey. Tirol flew over the vjgr-torn Gulf and was

battered by heavy rain near the Philippines. The pilots had planned their pleasure trip for eight years. —Chiba. Accident kills 13 Thirteen people died and 40 were injured in a multiple pile-up between a heavy lorry and two buses in the central Turkish province of Kirsehir. State radio quoted officials as saying they feared the death toll would rise. —Ankara. Pilot rescued A British pilot was rescued from the Gulf when his microlight aircraft flying from London to Sydney suffered engine trouble and came down in the sea, his press spokesman said. Brian Milton was picked up by a helicopter 56km north-west of Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, and taken to the Zakum oil complex and then to Abu Dhabi, he said. —London. Programme agreed The Soviet

ister, Eduard Shevardnadze, has agreed in principle to a programme of meetings with the United States Secretary of State, George Shultz, Tass news agency reported. Mr Shevardnadze worked out the provisional agenda during a review of the Washington summit with the United States Ambassador to Moscow, Jack Matlock, it said. —Moscow. Concessions suspended Duty-free concessions on certain Chilean exports to the United States are to be suspended because of Chile’s suppression of free trade unions and violations of other internationally recognised worker rights, United States officials said. A deputy trade representative, Alan Holmer, said Chile would be suspended from the United States Generalised System of Preferences, which accords Chile dutyfree entry into the United States of goods worth nearly 5NZ94.2 million a year.—Washington. <