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Tin Sydiwy Morning Herald. August 1, 1969 IRIAN'S ACT OF 'FREE' CHOICE plansN Pope igenan Allies to seek talks on Berlin peace bid during pilgrimage to Africa ROME, Thursday. Pope Paul left here today for Uganda oh a pilgrimage to the shrine of black Africa's first martyr saints and to try to mediate for peace in Nigeria. The Pope also will attend in Kampala a symposium of African bishops who are meeting to decide whether to set up a permanent continental bishops' conference, and dedicate a shrine to 22 martyrs killed on Ascension Day in 1886. i I 1 i jm I i i ",4 1-A jv.

tiix fv iA v' If WASHINGTON, Thursday. The U.S. and its Western allies are considering a new approach to the Soviet Union to try to ease tensions over Berlin with free access to the divided city. The U.S. State De- probe had the blessing of partment announced that the NATO alliance and consultations were in was encouraged by.

recent He arrived at Entebbe airport, Uganda, at noon where he was met by President Milton Obote, Cardinal Laurean Rugambwa of Tanzania, and' Archbishop Emanuel Nsubuga of Kampala. the Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr Andrei Gromyko. This would be the first broad attempt to resolve the status of Berlin and the Four-Power postwar responsibilities there since an abortive proposal by President John Kennedy in 1962. Diplomats said they could not yet gauge the chances for success of the yesterday at his summer MOON MAY HAVE 12m CRUST HOUSTON, Thursday. The moon, like the earth, may be formed of layers and have a crust about 12 miles thick.

4.A.P..A.P. oletur at Nabire discuss whether to remain part of Indonesia. The vote was The delegates sweltered in unfamiliar khaki shirts and trousers. West Iriunese delegates a unanimous "yes." West Irianese have decided unanimously in six of the territory's eight regencies to remain part of the Indonesian republic. Yet an air-mailed report received yesterday from the correspondent in West Irian, Hugh Lunn, suggests many delegates have voted against their true wishes.

During the meeting another delegate slipped a hastily written two-line note to a reporter sitting near: "These men here have been bribed. They don't know what they are saying. Lunn himself had note furtively given him, demanding that the United Nations declare Irian independent. progress in Bonn between Ambassadors of the U.S., Britain and France and the West German Foreign Ministry as a first step in testing Russia's interest in a possible European security conference and a global detente. The U.S.

Secretary of State, Mr William Rogers, disclosed on Tuesday in Tokyo that new Western iroposals on the status of erlin were being pre- Dued with the aim of test ing how far the Soviet leadership was willing to move in easing longstanding East-West tensions. The Three Power approach, probably in the form of similar or identical Notes from Britain, France and the U.S., could be made by mid-August or September, says the "New York Times" News Service. The State Department spokesman, Mr Carl Bovitch, said the Berlin when Israeli troops cap tured the Golan Heights to the east of Mount Hermon. spokesman saiu jclrj a mon were destroyed and all Syrian planes returned. At the same time artil lery had heavily shelled Israeli posts at Kime'lra destroying them and inflict ing heavy losses in men and material In Tel Aviv, a military spokesman confirmed the Syrian raid but said there were no casualties.

(A.A.P.-Reuter) issue of removing tne Berlin wall or proposals to assure free access and movement in tne cuy. TIME RIPE But they noted two points in the present international situation that had led Administration strategists to believe that the time is ripe to try. First is the Soviet Union's evident apprehension about the growing militancy of Communist China on the long eastern frontier and a corresponding desire to minimise possible points of tension on the Western flank. This strateev was believed to undcrly the conciliatory tone of the foreign policy statement by Mr Gromyko on July 10, in which he said that the Western allies would "find the Soviet Union ready to exchange views on how to prevent present and future complications associated with West Berlin." Secondly there is believed to be a coolness in relations between the Kremlin and 76-year-old East German leader Walter Ulbricht. Reports suggest that he is in failing health and may step down as either partv leader or the head of the Government before the October celebration of the twentieth anniversary of East Germany's constitution.

(A.A.P.) SYRIAN PLANES BOMB ISRAELIS 100 delegates who would like to speak out against Indonesia, but they are worried what will happen. Can you tell us nothing will happen?" But next day at the discussions he told the delegates, "Indonesia stretches from Sabang to Merauke. There is no other choice but to go with Indonesia." again attacked over his latest novel, "Fire," said to have portrayed Soviet workers as cynics, scoun drels, self-seekers and alco holics. (A.AJ.-Reuter) headed by Dr S. R.

Taylor of the Australian National University, reported that preliminary analysis of "a Pinch ot lunar dust showed that it consisted of rough glass fragments, glass spherules and mineral It also contained higher proportion of the rar: element titanium than earth rocks or meteorites. The injection of germ-free mice with tiny amounts of lunar material due to have been made yesterday was delayed until today. These and other biolo gical tests will seek to determine if the moon material has any ill effects on earth lite. ALL CLEAR Later 120 Japanese quail, which give quick indication of any genetic! deviations, will be brought into contact with the material to see what it docs to reproductive pro cesses. Doctors testing the blood ot the Apollo 11 astro nauts said they could find no evidence the spacemen suffered ill-effects from their exposure to moon dust.

The astronauts spent yes terday on the last of their dennenng sessions re counting to scientists all they could recall of their lournev. (A.A.P.-Rcutcr) Soviet writer to stay in Britain LONDON, Thursday. Soviet writer Anatoly Kuz-netsov, missing on a visit to London since he shook off his Russian shadow on Monday, has been given permission to remain in Britain. DAMASCUS, Thursday. Syrian fighter-bombers strafed Israeli nncitinnc nn Mount Hit.

mon today in retaliation for an Israeli raid yesterday on Syrian posts in the area. The raid, announced by a military spokesman, was on the slopes of the snow-capped peak which lies on the borders of Syria, Lebanon and Israel. This was the first Syrian air strike against Israel since the 1967 June war If the TOYOTA GROWN had a European it would cost twice as much. India to query Nixon on arms policy CONCERN OVER PAKISTAN DELHI, Thursday. President Nixon arrived here today from Bangkok on the fourth leg of his world tour.

About 5,000 people gathered at the airport to see the arrival, and traditional dancers weaved in and out of the crowd. After shaking hands with President Obote, the Pope met the visiting Heads of State including Presidents Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Michael Microm-bero of Burundi and Gregoire Kayebanda of Rwanda. NEGOTIATOR He also shook hands with the leader of Federal Nigeria's delegation, Chief Anthony Enahoro, regarded as the country's chief peace talks negotiator. Observers said the presence in Kampala of both Biafran and Nigerian representatives during the Pontiff's visit made it almost certain that the Pope would try to bring the two warring sides together. The Nigerian Federal Government already has rejected a Biafran call for a cease-fire during the Pope's visit to Africa, saying there would be no point in it.

But Chief Enahoro said after he arrived here yesterday that he was willing to talk to the Biafrans. Austine Okwu, Biafra's roving ambassador to East and Central Africa, arrived at Entebbe from Nairobi yesterday. Speaking to pilgrims in the past 22 years, is openly pleading for a resumption of U.S. arms sales, cut off at the time of the 196S Indo-Pakistan war. India also was affected by the cut-off, but its Army is supplied mainly by the Soviets and Mrs Gandhi wants simply to hear whether the Nixon Administration plans to resume arms sales to Pakistan.

White House sources said President Nixon also would seek Mrs Gandhi's views on polieing an eventual peace settlement in Vietnam India is chairman of the International Control Commission for Vietnam -and China's threat to Asia. Other issues they believed would come up included the future of Asian regional co-operation and the recent Russian suggestion for a collective security system in Asia. U.S. Cabinet Ministers, including Secretary of Commerce Maurice Stans and Secretary of Agriculture Clifford Hardin, who had attended a three-day conference with Japanese Ministers. Police tonight charged Hamaoka with assault.

Kyodo news agency quoted police as saying that he was a member of a political group but its name was not released. Mr Rogers flew to Seoul for talks with South Korean leaders. A.A.P.-Reuter reported that on his arrival he said he would discuss the long, range problem of peace and the future of Asia and also such immediate problems as peace for Vietnam and the security of South Korea. residence at Castelgan dolfo, the Pone con firmed that he would try to mediate for peace in Nigeria at the first opportunity, but he appear ed to hold out little hope or success. "The opposing positions on which the conflict is founded still seem too far apart," he said.

His opportunity to mediate could come this evening when he meets President Obote, or tomorrow when he meets visiting African Heads of State. DISASTER in Stockholm yester day, Dr Oerhard Ewald, chief medical officer of the International Com mittee of the Red Cross relief group for Biafra, told a Press conference that if mercy flights were not resumed in the very near future, Biafra's civilian population would face disaster. Dr Ewald said that more than 100 children were dying daily in Red Cross sickbays in Biafra In New York, the U.N. Secretary-General, Thant, yesterday appealed to both sides1-' in the Nigerian civil war to permit the resumption of emergency relief flights lest the civilian popula tion "again be plunged into the dreaded cycle of starvation, disease and death." (A.A.P.-Reuler) Vietcong give clue to lull in fighting NEW YORK, Thurs day. A Long Island newspaper, "Newsday' reports that a top Viet- cong peace negotiator; has indicated for the first time that the current lull in the Vietnam war was a move by the Communists to bring about i quick and total with drawal of U.S.

forces. The newspaper, in copyrighted article quotes Mrs Nguyen Thi Binh Foreign Minister of the Provisional Revolutionary uovernment ot south Viet nam, as saying: "The Keople of South Vietnam ave been acting so that American troops will totally withdraw from south Vietnam. We are acting and working in all fields to reach that objec tive. Mrs Binh's statement marked the first time that either Hanoi or the Viet- cong has openly stated that the decrease in fighting had political significance. In Saigon today the American command repor ted that only 110 Ameri can soldiers were killed in battle in Vietnam last week the lowest weekly toll this year and the fourth lowest in two years.

North Vietnamese and Vietcong deaths in the week ending July 26 also were the lowest this year at i.i. The South Vietnamese however, lost 290 men, only five below the pre vious week's total. Today's figures reflected the continuing lull in ground lighting in Viet nam since June 19. and the increased role in combat of South Vietnamese forces. (A.A.P.-Reuter) Describing the recent act of free choice at Nabire, he said one local leader had told a correspondent that 100 of the 175 delegates opposed Indonesian rule.

In order to see the reporter the man had hidden in the lavatory of a ship anchored off the coast as a hotel. In hurried whispers the Irianese said, "There are The Soviet Embassy in London had asked the British Foreien Office to start a nolice search for him The London "Daily Telegraph" today told how the 40-year-old novelist had sought sanctuary- On Monday, on a tour of Soho striptease clubs with his shadow, Gregory Andjaparidze, he had made an excuse that he wanted to find a prostitute but instead went to the "Daily Telegraph" office and asked for a member of the staff who spoke Russian. He was told that a decision to stay in Britain must rest with him and was warned that the life of an emigre was not easy. He said that nothing would persuade him to return to Russia, where he found it impossible to work as a writer. He had finally made up his mind to leave Russia a year ago after the invasion of Czechoslovakia.

"This invasion," he said, "shocked the whole of the Soviet intelligentsia, the majority of whom are today opposed to the Soviet regime." HIDDEN FILM United Press International said he had brought complete manuscripts of all his works, published and unpublished, in rolls of 35mm film sewn into his jacket. Kuznetsov got permission to come to Britain in the first place only because he said he was writing a book about Lenin. A request by the Soviet Embassy for an interview with Kuznetsov has been passed by the Foreign Office to him for his consideration. Kuznetsov has been under attack in the Soviet Union for his 1966 novel "Babi Yar" on the Nazi massacre of thousands of Jews in a Ukraine ravine. Soviet critics claimed that he had ignored the sufferings of other races, including Russians and Ukrainians.

A month ago he was lage near Basanti. just outside Calcutta, and a crowd surrounded the police and opened fire. Angry police today rushed into the Assembly shout ing at the Communist Ministers and rampaged through the building, attacking anyone in their way. i ne speaker nurriedly aujourned tne House as Ministers, members, reporters and visitors fled to safety in different rooms and barricaded the doors against the police. Some policemen rushed for the room of the Com.

munist Deputy Chief Minister, Mr Jyoti Basu, who is in charge of police anairs. (A.A.P.-Reuter) Dr Garry Latham, a geologist, said yesterday that this was indicated by; preliminary informa-tio'n from instruments left on the moon by the Apollo 1 1 astronauts. If it was proven that the moon was formed of layers, it would indicate that the moon, like earth, was once a molten mass. When it cooled, lighter materials went to the surface and heavier ones to the core. Dr Latham said seismometers left by the astronauts on the moon had recorded three tremors, which on earth would be computed as about 3.5 on the Richtcr scale a relatively minor earthquake.

They had also recorded 25 surface movements believed to have been caused by landslides. LANDSLIDES The slides took place during the hot lunar day. with temperatures reachinf! 240 degrees Fahrenheit at high noon. At night the temperatures dropped to minus 250 degrees. Dr Latham said he thought rocks and rubble on the sides of the craters were loosened by expansion and contraction in rapidly changing temperatures and slid to the bottom.

A team of researchers. Cambodia leader to hand over PHNOM PENH, Thurs day. Prince Norodom Sihanouk told the Cam bodian National As sembly today that he in tends to hand over the duties of Head of State to a regency council, He would retain only the leadership of the ruling national movement Sang- kum. Prime Minister Samdech Penn Nouth would soon retire for health reasons and a special congress would be convened to discuss the formation of a new Government. 30 killed BELGRADE.

At least 30 people were kiucu auu 10 InttirnA whpn a Hipi nnR- senper train crashed into two runaway freight cars T. lJ near lciuva, Ship sinks OSLO. The Nor wegian cargo ship wen-ny, with 39 people on board, same in tne Arctic Ocean early today and shins and aircraft from several countries started rescue operations. Young rowers Turn small boys were rescued by a milc rtllt tn lanivc! awfii sea yesterday after they had sei oui iu Atlantic. Eddie Bowling, 9, of Shore- i Gknov eaiH hit WAS nam, ou, not too worried about his chances of making the American coast, though he was concerned that he had eaten all his sandwiches and mai nis Neil Richards, 7, was seasicK.

Babies award LONDON. Two boys, on.l eieht and seven, thalidomide babies, the first born with no arms of left'. the with arms, were in the nint, Court yesterday awarded $44,574 and $27,430 damages respectively against the manufacture Distiller. Co. (Biochemicals) Ltd.

4.A.P.-A.P Dicturc MR KUZNETSOV' SALVADOR PULLING OUT MEN WASHINGTON Thursday. El Salvador last night began to with draw its troops from Honduras under the supervision of the Organisation of American States. Diplomatic sources here said u.A.s. military observers were ready to take custody of the towns and installations occupied by El Salvador since the July 14-18 hostilities. El Salvador captured positions about 12 miles in side Honduras during the brief undeclared borderi war.

The withdrawal is being carried out in compliance with O.A.S. resolutions which hemisphere Foreign Ministers were to have formally approved last night. The O.A.S. plan was designed to avert a break-up of the Central American Common Market and to preserve the principle of in violability of the territory of member States. (A.A.P.-Reuter) The Prime Minister, Mrs Indira Gandhi, and the Acting President Mohammed Hidayatul-lah, met him at Palam airport as a 21-gun salute echoed across the tarmac.

Crowds lined the route along the eight-mile drive to the Presidential palace where President Nixon conferred privately with Mrs Gandhi for 90 minutes. Mr Nixon will make only one public appearance during his 23-hour stay in India when he visits Gandhi's crematory site on the banks of the Jumna River to lay a wreath and pbnt a sapling. Indian officials have indicated that American arms policies in the subcontinent are high on the list of questions they want to discuss with Mr Nixon. Pakistan, with whom India has fought two wars A genuine concern for your safety Crown's every reachable surface is padded including fascia, sun visors, steering wheel and roof pillars. A non-rearward displacement steering column Is fitted.

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