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Press, 5 April 1988, Page 10

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! 1 iJ Zaccaro trial ] I • 111 ‘ I i j The son of former VicePresidentia] |l | candidate, Geraldine will go ( bn trial today ,dn a charge; bf selling coqaine to al police undercover agent. (John Zaccaro,] Jun., aged |24, pleaded riot guilty to | (the charge of selling! a I (regulated drug, a charge that carries a five-year Iprison terrii. The case has* progressed]slowly because ] of appeals jo the Vermont Supreme Court appeals,, including a I claim that I Zaccaro was [singled out! for proseci tion because of I his fame.—' (Montpelier Ve rmbnt. i I . j I I Flight postponed I The world distance re-1 cord attempt by the Dae- ] dalus humqn pedal- ] powered aircraft was ■postponed aga n yesterday because of wind condiitions. The American pilot!. (Frank Scioscia spent 301 i minutes on the runway of ' Heraklion | airport in the, | cockpit of the glider-like i i 32kg craft in! the early I morning j before the 119 km flight (to the volcanic isla'nd of Santorini was called off. Weather are] expected to be unfavourable for the next four] days. — Heraklion. . j Troops for Punjab India sent 3000 soldiers | from an elite paramilitary] force to curb Sikh extremists in Punjab. The Government in Delhi also increased patrols along the Indo-Pakistan border as it considers im-I posing emergency rule in | the state, trie police said. — Chandigdfh. Car chased I I 1 A Panamanian Defence Force Ivan] I trailed the United | States Ambassador’s car thrpugh Panama City with sirens wailing and lights | (flashing and tried to> force the car tb]

ill.II ! I J’ | pull over, a United States embassy official said. The van was waiting for the jAmbassador, ]1 Arthur Davis, as he left the Vatican Mission I after an ; Easter courtesy call on ] th'e Papal Nuncio. It i followed him 3km to his residence j trying to force | him to pull over. — Panama City.l ]■■ <1 ]l| I I ' 111 •• ■ J .Heavy security ; Scores I of Army arid police ringed! Milltown Cemetery (in Belfast for a Republican rally l at the spot where three people died last month in a grenade attack op a funeral. The operation] in contrast to recent (Republican funerals where the Royal Ulster Constabulary arid the Army adopted a "stay away” policy.)— London. Heroin found A Soviet customs inspector who became suspicious of an African couple because of their circuitous travel route found million ($15.6 million), worth jof heroin in their suitcases, a newspaper reported. The ("Komsomolskaya Pravada’’ newspaper said 14.75 kg of ( heroin was found inside the false walls of five suitcases carried by the couple) at Sheremetyevo Airport, Moscow. A customs officer said] he became suspicious of the couple because! they stopped! in Moscow on | a trip home from New (Delhi, which was fari from the shortest or simplest route.—Moscow. A ttempted-m order charge I J Kenneth | O’Do|wd, cousin of pop,/star, Boy George, is due to appear ( before Tower Bridge magj istratesj today charged ! with attempted murder. ! He is | alleged , to tiave committed the offence on

March 23. O’Dowd, aged 41, of I London, is also charged with possession of a fireanh with intent to endanger life. He is understood to.; have been arrested on ( Sunday -in Plumstead following an incident last month in which a man ! was shot in the legs at a block of flats in South London.—London. j

Prices soar Inflation iri Peru rocketed 22.6 per| cent during March, the biggest)! onemonth increase I (since Peru began measuring cost of living changes in 1920, the Government said. The National Statis-tics-.lnstitute said austerity measures imposed during March, including a 25 per cent increase in food prices, a 50 ! per cent increase in petrol costs, and the doubling [in the prices of non-essential consumer goods, sparkbd the large increase.—Lima. ] Cartoonist dies Milton • paniff, [( the American comic strip, artist who pitted squarejawed Americans against treacherous [dragon ladies in “Terry and the Pirates” and "Steve Canyon,” died on Sunday. He was 81. Mr Caniff was admitted to hospital on ( February 29 for treatment of lung cancer. He died at his home, according | to King Features, which syndicated the ! strips.—ltiw York. More talks wanted : The Prime Minister of Japan, Noboru Takeshita, said yesterday that, he wanted to hold talks with Washington again to break a United StatesJapan impasse over Japan’s restrictions on beef and citrus fruit imports. The| United States,

after talks with Japan failed last week, said it would take the issue to trie General Agreement on Tariffs and, Trade in Geneva, I the 95-nation international forum that <£an rule lon trade disputes among its members. Mr Takeshita told- a news conference in Saga, 920 km I south-west of Tokyo, that he felt the negotiations with Washington ‘‘had only been suspended and had not collapsed.”—Tokyo. Pacifists attacked A youth suffered a fractured skull when “hooligans” attacked a gathering of pacifists on a Moscow, street on Friday and' police failed to intervene, a member of the dissident Group of Trust said. Alexander ([Rubchenko told Reuters;] about 100 attackers broke up a gathering of some! 30 pacifist youths on Gogdlevsky Boulevard in central Moscow. He said a (youth was in hospital undergoing treatment (for a _ fractured skull. Mr Rubchenko said a similar incident occurred lon Saturday near Moscow police headquarters. He said a 16-year-old youth suffered a broken nose and concussion.— Moscow. Marriage by phone Corrina Clark and Alvin McGowan got married on Thursday — over the telephone!; Ms Clark took the call (in Bartholomew County Courthouse. The bridegroom was at an Army base in Kaiserslaughtern, West Germany,; "I’ve done a lot of marriages before, but never one by phone,” said County Clerk Naomi Jackson, who performed the ceremony. “My last thing was ‘Kiss the bride’ and I couldn’t say that.”— Columbus, Indiana.