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Tti Sydmay Morning Herald, Monday, May 8, t967 1 Assent to unification of forces From Our Own Correspondent OTTAWA, Sunday. The bill to unify the Canadian Armed Forces will receive Royal assent tomorrow. King Faisal a wprry to British Govt. From T. S.

MONKS LONDON, Sunday. The British Government's attention will be forcibly, but reluctantly, turned again this week to the troubled Middle East. Hel Iyer's determination to King Faisal, of coming to London. Saudi Arabia, is -X. A special audience to mark World Pope Paul stretched out his arms on Saturday Social to welcome actress Claudia Cardinale at Communications Media Day.

ACTRESSES STEAL THE POPE'S SHOW From A Special Correspondent It will take effect when proclaimed towards the end of the year. The Defence Minister, Mr Paul T. Hellver. saw his bill pass the Commons on April 25. after months ot acrid debate in the Parliamentary Defence Committee and in ihe Commons.

The main opposition came from the Conservative Party, whose arguments. especially in committee, were bolstered By lniorma- tion given by retired senior officers bitterly opposed to unification. The Government had to use the guillotine to end Conservative discussion on the third reading in the Commons. SOME YEARS Mr Hellver expects it will be some years before the three branches of the Ser vices become one, with Army-style ranks and, probably, green walking-out uniforms. Each arm will probably continue with the traditional working dress.

The title of the unified force is expected to be "Canadian Armed Forces." After law is pro claimed, present members of the Forces will have the right not to serve in an en vironment different from that to which they have been accustomed. The main argument of the Opposition was that Mr pilots were involved, but named three, James L. Hughes, 46, LL-Col. Gordon A. Larson, 40, and Lt.

Richard Shiverly, 25. (North Vietnam claimed seven U.S. planes were shot down on Saturday. The U.S. command in Saigon announced the loss of three U.S.

Air Force F105 Thun-derchiefs in the action.) "As recently as yesterday these people were circling like black death in the sky over Hanoi, dropping num erous demolition and in unify the Services, after carrying through his pro gram of integrating stans and reducing the number of commands from 11 to six, was destroying morale. Many of the opponents supported integration as being money-saving and effi-, cient, but believed that unification was carrying things too far. The Defence Department is encouraged by the latest recruiting figures, which show that 3,883 joined the Forces the first quarter of this year, compared with 2,546 the nrst quarter ot 1966. Youth held for murder LONDON, Sunday. A 19-year-old youth was charged today with the murder of Jeanette Wig-more, 9, whose body was found in a gravel pit near the Berkshire village of Beenham on April 17.

The youth, David Burgess, a dumper driver, of Beenham, was charged at Newbury police station in Berkshire. He is to appear in a magistrate's Court tomorrow. (A.A.P.-Reuter) numerable marble bombs on the residential blocks and enterprises of the city. Today they only cause contempt," Tass said. A North Vietnamese mili tary spokesman later said at rress conterence: we want journalists of various countries of the world to see for themselves the irrefutable evidence of the shameful defeat of the American aggressors who have attacked our capital." (A.A.P.) Australia is future giant', says economist From PETER POLOMKA DJAKARTA, Sunday.

A lead-ing Indonesian economist, Dr Emil Salim, sees Australia as a "future giant in Asia." Carlo Ponti, disappointed the crowd by preferring to continue work on a film, although invited. Miss Cardinale, Miss Lollobrigida and actor Adam West, of Batman fame, met the Pope later. The Pontiff spoke briefly to them and inquired warmly about Miss Lollobrigida's son. Reds parade captive pilots KING FAISAL Palace becomes crowded LONDON, Sunday. King Faisal is coming to London on Tuesday with such a large retinue that they cannot all be accommodated at Buck ingham Palace.

The King, with his secretaries, equerries and personal bodyguards will stay in rooms at the front of the Palace, overlook-ing'The Mall. servants including his personal coffee-malfer, who accompanies him everywhere will have, special quarters at the of the Palace. mn TWO DAYS CJJie rest of the "team" has been round accom-! mpdation by the Saudi Ambassador away from the Palace. The King is staying as the Queen's guest only two days. Then he moves to a 25 guineas a night suite at the Dorchester Hotel, where there will be no accommodation problems.

Besides his own suite, the King has taken the whole of the hotel's seventh floor for the rest ofnhis stay two days in State and then a week as a private visitor. (Special Correspondent) Lollobrigida, who, at first, stood in a small crowd and then was escorted to a chair in a reserved section immediately facing the Throne. On the way a bearded Swiss Guard stopped her, but a horrified officer reprimanded the Guard with: "Obviously, you don't go to the cinema." Miss Lollobrigida was recently acquitted of an obscenity charge brought over a falling towel scene in her latest film. But she has also earned the Church's disapproval because of her legal separation from her husband, Milko Skofic. She was seated next to a somewhat surprised editor of the Vatican newspaper "Osservatore Romano," Mr Raimondo Manzini, who has written some reproving things about film stars in the past.

But Miss Loren, who has been embroiled for years in an alleged bigamy case over her marriage to producer Vf -fe MOSCOW, Sunday. I American pilots, captured after parachuting over Hanoi, were paraded be fore angry crowds in the streets of the North Viet namese capital yesterday, the soviet news agency Tass reported. A dispatch from. Hanoi said the American airmen were picked, up after parachuting from their crippled jets near the capital, United Press International reported. It did not say how many Laymen control university NEW YORK, Sunday The University of Notre Dame yesterday became the first Roman Catholic university in the world to give control to laymen.

The change was announced by the president of the 125-year-old university. the Rev. father Theodore M. Hesburgh. the "New York Times" News Service said.

Father Hesburgh said several Roman Catholic universities had taken preliminary steps in this direction and Notre Dame had been flooded with requests for de tails of the reorganisation. The change had been made in the spirit of the pronouncements of the Second Vatican Council, which called for granting the laity a more responsible role in the Church and its -institutions. (A.A.r.J which his elder free' spending brother King Saud was deposed, he has launched a program of economic and social de velopment out of the 300 million annual revenue, almost wholly rrom on. King Faisal is trying to show that Nasserite socialism is not the only tocus or change in the Middle East. But his visit to London does pose some difficul-ties for the British Gov ernment.

The mood of British Ministers is to opt out of South Arabian entanglement as early as possible. A number of British M.P.8 of all parties have recently visited King Fai sal- his desert kingdom and have returned with reports that he should be given more backing. However, the thinking in the Government seems to be more and more to wards an easing out of tne Middle bast detence scene, eventually in the Persian Gulf as well as South Arabia. MASS FOR HITLER BANNED MADRID, The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Madrid yesterday toroade a memorial Mass for Adolf Hitler. Archbishop Casimiro Morcillo is understood to have issued the ban after a group of people sought to arrange for services this weekend.

The Mass was to have marked the 22nd anniver sary of Hitler's death in a Berlin bunker on May 2 or; May 3, 1945. The "New York Times" News Service says the plan for a Mass underlines a revival in recent months of open, though small-scale, pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic sentiment in some Spanish groups. (A.A.P.) measures to counter unemployment. Reform and unification of social security systems, en-i suring lhat their books are balanced. The opposition needs clear majority of 244 votes; to deteat the bill and expected to muster about 235, if Ihe Communists, the Federation of the Left and the Centrists vote against, there is thus little chance lhat the Government of Prime Minister Mr Georges Pompidou will be.

toppled. (A.A.r.-Keuter) VISCOUNT MONTGOMERY 7') it ft j-V' The most oil-rich, the most powerful and the most assertive of the dwindled band of Middle-East monarchs. King ralsal is increas ingly unhappy at Bri tain's impending with drawal from Aden and South Arabia. Neither does he like the prospect of a further spread of the influence of President Nasser of Egypt, his arch enemy. King Faisal is expect ed to urge British Mm- isters to hold off a with drawal from South Arabia and Aden 'until a stable indepedent Government is established.

Alternatively, they should stay on until South Arabia's own defence forces are built up to a strength capable of deterring an Egyptian-sponsored incursion from the Yemen. INFLUENCE The sheiks and sultans of South Arabia, who feel threatened by the Nasser-backed Nationalists in Aden, look to King Faisal for support and believe that he can exercise influence because of his links with the United States and Britain. King Faisal's oil wealth comes from the operations of Aramco, in which American interests loom large. His defence system is now being re-equipped by British! firms, who have a 100 million contract to supply jet fighters and a radar network. Cairo Radio has been indulging in a bitter propaganda campaign against King Faisal, maintaining that he lives in daily terror of revolution and portraying his regime as archaic.

In fact, by Arabian standards, King Faisal is regarded as a moderniser. Since he came to power in a bloodless, coup d'etat in 1963, in The bill would allow it, to help French industry meet growing competition from other Common Mar ket countries and to en courage profit-sharing ven tures. The text of ihe bill was published yesterday, four. days ahead of schedule, apparently to win public support against a 24-hour nation-wide protest strike on May IV. The government also faces a censure motion by Left-wing opposition depu ties on Wednesday, wnen debate on the bill starts The bill would allow the Government to rule by; decree on these subjects: COMPETITION Aid to business in adapt ing to Common Market competition, particularly when customs tarilts between Market members are abolished on July 1, 1968.

Worker participation in the fruits of expansion of enterprises. Modernisation or conver sion of outdated sectors of industry. Full employment and Monty CAIRO, Sunday. Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery has objected to some criticisms levelled against his leadership in the victorious World War II desert campaign in he 79-year-old war, hero, revisiting the battle' field at El Alamein, where he defeated General Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps 25 years ago, said yesterday many of those who have written on the subject had misinter-. preted his actions and motives.

He had been quoted' Decree powers sought on French economy PARIS, Sunday. The French Government has unexpectedly taoled a controversial bill empowering it to govern by decree over numerous sectors of the economy. OTHER CABLE NEWS SEATO pact 'worthless' ROME, Sunday. Claudia Cardinale wore a mini-skirt, Gina Lollobrigida braved her critics, but Sophia Loren couldn't make it to an unprecedented meeting between Pope Paul VI and the world of showbiz yesterday. The occasion was the celebration of the first World Social Communications Day, today, and at the Pope's invitation nearly 5,000 Press and entertainment people had an audience with him at St.

Peter's. The idea was to emphasise the important contribution that Press, theatre, cinema, radio and television, printing, publishing and advertising can make towards the creation of a better world. GASPS But the film stars stole the show even from the Pope himself, who was garmented in dazzling white robes. Claudia was the first to bring gasps when she walked to her seat near the Pope's throne wearing her mini-little black dress. Miss Cardinale recently married outside Italy a man who is not the father of her son, born when she was unmarried.

The Church forgave her early sins, but not her marriage to a man the Church considers to be still married to his first wife. Then came Miss tion of all political youth groups following a ban on the Socialist Lambrakis youth organisation. Arrested ATHENS. Greek authori ties arrested a Dutch journalist, Frans Van Hasselt, 40, last night. Dutch Embassy officials could not reach him tol establish the reason for his arrest as he was being kept incommunicado.

Tornado hits BIRMINGHAM (Alabama). A tornado cut an erratic path through a 20-block area of Alabama's largest city last night causing property damage of thousands of dollars. One fatality was reported and at least 100 people were injured. Non-stop flight MOSCOW. The Soviet Union's new Ilyushin-62 jet airliner yesterday flew a non-stop test run of more than 4,900 miles from Moscow to Khaba rovsk, in the Far East, 10 hours.

The 186-seat airliner is ex pected to be introduced on long-distance routes by the end of the year. Rite changed VATICAN CITY. Catho lic priests will have to bless worshippers before dismissing them at the end of the Holy Mass under a Vatican regula tion published here last night. The change aims at giving a more decorous ending to Mast and ensuring that worshippers do not rise before the end. Writing in an Indo nesian weekly on nis return from Australia Salim says: "While econo mically speaking Australia is just a young boy grow ing into adulthood, it is already the fifth wealthiest nation of the world.

If other countries in Europe and the United States face a saturated level in their economic growth, Australia has iust begun. "It is therefore without any exaggeration that we look to Australia as the future 'giant' in Asia in the next fifteen to twenty years. Dr Salim, a member of; Acting President Suharto's five-man team of economic brains-trusters. visited Aus tralia as a guest of the: Government. He is a lec turer in economics at the University of Indonesia and was recently appointed a member of Parliament.

TRIANGLE He believes Indonesia will be "caught in a triangle of giants, such as Japan mainland China and Aus tralia and that future rela tions with these countries will depend very much on Indonesia ability to over come present economic difficulties. "A stable and booming Indonesia may provide important gains for Australia after all a contented neighbour Is always much better than a noisy and hungry one. Indonesia could become an important source of raw materials for Australia as well as an important market lor Australian industries. "The complementary nature of production pat terns provide a sound basis tor moving the two coun tries together," he said. DIFFICULTIES This would be the picture of Indonesia's future rela tions with Australia, but it was prerequisite that Indo nesia present economic difficulties are solved.

"It is here that more can be expected from Australia compared with other countries, Dr Salim said. However. this would mean not looking for quick gains from investment and trade with Indonesia, but rather for long-range benefits. On his impressions Dr Salim writes: "Although my visit was brief and my im presSions therefore are rather superficial, in general sensed the feeling of con tentment and happiness of the Australian people. captured German General Ritter von Jomi to dinner.

"I went over the battle tactics with him on a white tablecloth. It was a very illuminating conversation." The Cairo newspaper "Al Ahram," reporting the visit, said Monty appeared in "good humour and high spirits, apparently carried away by memories." The visit continues until next Saturday, when he will return to Cairo for a possible meeting with President Nasser. 4IA.A.P.) The best-tasting, best value chocolate biscuits you can buy N. Ireland weathers new crisis Our Own Correspondent DUBLIN, Sunday, The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Captain Terence O'Neill, has sur- viySq, the province second political crisis six'ihonths. However, his political fimife is far from secure.

Many observers believe he win "not stay in office another year. The latest upheaval fol lowed the dismissal of the Minister for Agriculture, Mr Harrv West. Mr West was dismissed because of a land purchase deaL. in which there was a possibility of a conflict be tween his private role as a fawner and tus Ministerial duties. COMPLICATED He was among those who favoured Captain O'NeiU'sl dismissal six months ago in rte crisis involving the Ritrfif-wine Paisley group The crisis in Captain OTeiH' Unionist Party is further complicated by thei fact that Northern Ireland's1 affairs are under increasingly sharp scrutiny by tne uritisn CrnWrnmenL.

JC group of articulate Left-wing Labour M.P.s are leading a movement called "Campaign for Democracy CAIRO, Sunday. Presi dent Avub Khan ot Pakistan today express ed disappointment with Pakistan's alliance with SEATO, which, he said, was concluded "so we could depend on our Allies in time of aggres sion. "But our Allies have let us down, thus proving the alliance is worthless, and now we are free to get arms from any place we wish," he added. 'Oust Chinese' DJAKARTA. The Chair man of Indonesia People's Consultative Congress, General Abdul Haris Nasution, has urged that the Government eliminate Chinese economic dominance.

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