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THE AGE, Thursday, June 19, 1975 WORLD NEWS Bring back hanging, they cried WORLD I1EUI5 Lucan inquest hears of 'kill contract' Laotian general I-flees to Thailand mm MM in MM mm If Jl ,71 should have had anything to do with-the attack. She believed he panicked because he felt no one would believe his story. After drinking coffee and borrowing some tranquillisers to help him sleep, Lord Lucan drove away at about 1.15 a.m., she said. The earl's mother, the Dowager Countess of Lucan, told the inquest she got two telephone calls from her- son on the night of the murder. In the first, Lord Lucan sounded highly shocked and said he had interrupted a fight at his wife's home, she said.

Lord Lucan had has been a terrible catastrophe Veronica (Lady Lucan) is hurt and I want you to collect the children." The second call came after midnight, when the dowager countess had been to the death flat and taken her grandchildren to her home. This time her son sounded calm and asked about the children. The dowager countess said Lord Lucan had been obsessed with his three children since custody of them was first granted to his wife, from whom he was separated. Earlier, a pathologist, Professor Keith Simpson, was shown a piece of lead piping. He said it could have caused Mrs.

Rivett's wounds. A friend of the missing earl told the inquest of how he had oeen asked to arrange to pay-off Lord Lucan's bank overdrafts. Company director, William Shand Kydd, said the request came in one of two letters he got from the earl after his disappearance. The court has been told Lord Lucan was overdrawn at four banks to a total of LONDON, June 18. The second day of the inquest today into the killing of the Lucan family nanny was told of a "contract to A close friend of the family, Mrs.

Susan Maxwell-Scott, 38, said the missing peer, Lord Lucan had claimed his wife frequently accused him of hiring a man to kill her. Mrs. Maxwell-Scott said Lord Lucan drove to her home the night the nanny was killed and described an "unbelievable nightmare She is the wife of one of the earl's gambling friends and is the last person known to have seen the missing peer alive. Lord Lucan disappeared after his wife was attacked and the nanny, Sandra Rivett, was found beaten to death at the family's home in Belgravia, London, last November 7. Mrs.

Maxwell-Scott told the Westminster Coroner's Court, Lord Lucan went to her country home at Uckfleld, Sussex, on the night of the killing. "He said that after finding his wife covered in blood and in a very hysterical state she cried out that someone had killed Sandra or the nanny and almost in the same breath had accused him of having hired a man to kill her," Mrs. Maxwell-Scott told the court. "This, Lucan told me, was a thing she frequently accused him of, saying there was a contract to kill her. "He said this was something she had got from an American television film." Lord Lucan told her that when he arrived home he saw -through the Venetian blinds "what looked like a man attacking his she said.

He told her he slipped in a pool of blood and the man he had seen attacking his wife ran off. Mrs. Maxwell-Scott said It was "quite incredible" that Lord Lucan Be tuned for details of the latest snow and road conditions at all major resorts in Victoria, New South Wales and New Zealand. VIENTIANE, June 18. The senior Rightist general in southern Laos fled to Thailand today after Government troops defected to the Pathet Lao, diplomatic sources reported.

Sources in Vientiane said General Souchay Vong-savanah, military administrator of Pakse and a Rightist considered acceptable to the communist-led Pathet Lao, was forced to flee after his troops rebelled against their officers, charging them with favoritism, corruption and serving American interests. According to Pathet Lao radio, the troops were fed up with past deeds "in the service of U.S. imperialism" and wished to side with the Pathet Lao. Pakse, once a Rightist stronghold, 285 miles southeast of Vientiane, was neutralised last month. Unstable conditions in the town forced the abrupt cancellation of an official visit of Australian Ambassador Alec Borthwick, whose permission to visit Pakse and other province capitals in the kingdom was rescinded while nls DC-8 aircraft was on its way there.

The Ambassador was given lunch after landing then requested to fly back to Vientiane. Rebellions similar to the one in Pakse have occurred often in the past two months as Rightist officers and officials have been accused of corruption and forced to flee. police got him Inside unseen by tricking the crowd. Chains were removed from the back entrance to the court and a police van with a blanket over its back window reversed slowly to the door through the crowd. But at the same time, Cook was smuggled Into the court through the front entrance.

After the hearing, police used two decoy cars at the front, but Cook was spotted as he was led out of the back entrance with a blanket over his head. Angry women beat on the side of a police van outside a court lh Cambridge, England, as accused rapist Peter Cook is driven away after Tuesday's hearing. Shouting "Bring back the women banged the van with their fists and handbags. Cook, 47, had just been remanded In custody until June 26 on seven counts of having raped women in Cambridge, and two further charges of attempted rape and wounding. About 150 women had gathered outside the court before Cook arrived, but Nude swimmers panicked when Jackie arrived NEW YORK, June 18.

Jacqueline Kennedy once caused panic among nude bathers In the White House swimming pool when she arrived home unexpectedly, according to a book published here today. BRIGHTER ELEVEN EGHTY The women then surged forward as he was hustled Into the police van. Traphes Bryant, In his book, Dog days At The White House said President Kennedy "liked to swim nude and so did some of the girls who popped in to visit Watergate man gets new post site lei Eli (kldfe Once, he says Mrs Kennedy returned to the execu tive mansion unexpectedly U.S. launches a super-spy CAPE CANAVERAL, June 18. The U.S.

Air Force today launched a secret experimental spy satellite into stationary orbit over the Soviet Union or China. Unofficial sources said the satellite was a highly advanced version of a series which carry sensitive cameras and infra-red equipment to keep watch over, the Soviet Union and China and provide almost instant warning of any missile attack against the U.S. Such satellites can provide 30-minute warning of a land-based missile attack and about 10 minutes alert on shorter-range submarine launched missiles. 'si I' wnue several men ana women were swimming nude in the pool. Both the President and his brother Robert were there, Bryant says.

When the alarm sounded, all fled except the President, who stayed in the pool. Then the drinks and other "evidence" had to be cleared away. Bryant says Mrs. Kennedy seemed to notice nothing amiss and soon left. To be on the safe side, the others stayed away from the pool for a while.

"And Bryant writes, "when he wanted to be alone with his female company, JFK passed the word that the private family quarters on the second floor were off limits." Bryant says that one White House employee went to the second floor one night to check the gas on the stove and saw a naked woman walking from the kitchen. Bryant says President Lyndon Johnson did not like George Hamilton, the film star, when he was dating Lynda Bird Johnson, and called him "Georgie boy." Once when Hamilton was coming through the White House gates, Johnson muttered: "Christ, he looks like he was put together by the Ladies Club Jeb Stuart Magruder, former White House aide who spent seven months In gaol for Ms part In the Watergate cover-up, pauses before answering a question-during a Press conference In New York. Magruder last week was appointed vice-president of Young Life, an organisation that works among teenagers to instill In them a commitment to Christianity and the Christian way of life. The former Nixon aide says that his new Job Is In line with his new style of life and personal goals. At last, it's Men's Lib ZURICH, June 18.

A Swiss Men's Liberation Club announced here today that it would put up candidates for the next legislative elections, Its platform would be: "That men may remain the organisers said. Fair competition? The Australian Government has the final say as to whether a private insurer stays in business. But if they go into insurance, who watches over them? They already make up the rules and now they want to play in the game. Is that fair competition? Private enterprise at stake? Billions of dollars are invested for policyholders in everything from natural resources to small andlarge businesses. If, instead, the Government gets into the game, what's to stop it taking control of a large part of those billions and those businesses.

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