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5 The Sydney Horning Herald, Tuesday, Hay 25, 1971 5 I WORLD NEWSL MR MAGEE SET FOR 131 iMfmf! 'mmmtftm Belfast tavern bomb Pakistan i' 'facing crisis in Vietcong oil dump blast sets ablaze London acclaim forAust soprano rounds of 2.75in rockets and artillery shells were SAIGON, Monday. An explosion, presumably set off by Viet-cong sappers, caused a fire that burnt 1 million gallons of American aviation fuel at Cam Ranh Bay last night. the initial explosion but saw no sappers. The US command also reported the loss of four helicopters to enemy ground fire in various parts of South Vietnam on Saturday and Sunday. Three crewmen were reported killed and four wounded, The losses raised to the total number of US aircraft lost in the war.

Associated Press of America reported that injures 15 BELFAST, Monday. A bomb wrecked a bar in Belfast's Protestant Shan-kill Road today, injuring 1 i people. The bomb exploded soon after noon, blowing out the back wall of the Mount-view Tavern. Police and troops immediately threw up roadblocks throughout the city, hunting for two cars which sped away from the scene. A fleet of ambulances took the injured to hospitals.

Most were bleeding profusely. One of the injured was reported in serious condition with head injuries. An eyewitness said he was walking nearby when a cloud of smoke gushed from the tavern with a huge bang. "I climbed over the debris and saw two men and a girl injured," he said. The explosion occurred only five minutes before the school noon lunch recess when the street would have been crowded with child ren.

The blast followed a weekend of bombings and gunfights in which a soldier was killed and at least 23 people were injured. Security forces attribute the violence to an escala tion of the outlawed Insh Republican Army's struggle to break Northern Ireland's links with Britain. A British Army corporal was shot dead in an ambush on Saturday and another survived six machinegun bullets in the body in a second ambush. (AAP) economy KARACHI, Monday, The West Pakistani leader of the Left-wing People's Party, Mr Z. A.

Bhutto, has warned that Pakistan faces an alarming economic crisis. He told a press confer ence here yesterday that the crisis had been foreseen even before the East Pakistani crisis. "It needs the people's participation to overcome! it. The crisis cannot be solved by bureaucracy. It's not necessary for our bureaucracy to heap blunder on blunder," Mr Bhutto added.

He said Pakistan's first priority was to "give East Pakistan hope for the future on the fundamental question of the economy and the fullest autonomy compatible with one Pakistan." A US scientist, who conducted research in East Pa kistan, says famine in the embattled region may cause mass starvation this summer, surpassing the 1943 famine in which more than a million people died, Dr William Greenough, of the Johns Hopkins University Medical School, says he based his warning I on accounts written by relief workers to a former colleague of his, Dr John Rohde, who now serves at the cholera research laboratory operated by SEATO in East Pakistan. (AAP-Reuter) Ihe continued enemy shellings along the DMZ and the belief that North Vietnam may be strength' ening its forces there brought scores of US B52 stratotortresses and fighter bombers into the area. (AAP) Soviet chess master ill VANCOUVER, Mon day. Soviet grand master Mark Taimanov comnlained nf hiiri, MnnA pressure today and officials postponed the tourth round of his quarter final world CheSS chamDinnshin mfrh against US grand master, Bobby Fischer. Fischer icaas j-u.

In Seville Snaln Petrosian 1IKSP fnr. world champion, beat Or- oen Hueoner (West Germany) last night, breaking a ux.same run nr rirauic Petrosian leads 4-3. Ben T-Hreen nf TUnmoil, SUreed further aheo1 Im clash with Wolfgang Uhl- mann, or bast Uermany, winning uicir sixin game Las Pa ffltu fl'anarv Te lands. Larsen leads 4-2, Carnage 1UKYO. An averaee of 42 people were killed every day in Japan this year in a record number of traffic fatalities 6,503 the National Police Agency reported today.

KENNEDYS SELL OWN ART FOR MEMORIAL Six hours after the explosion, enemy gunners fired 30 mortars into the army support command base, 190 miles north-east of Saigon. A communique said these caused no casualties or damage. A spokesman said the aviation fuel destroyed was enough to keep 8S0 helicopters flying for 24 hours. Another officer said a soldier at the base heard New Etna threat CATANIA (Sicily), Monday. Residents of Fornazzo village today fled their homes on Mount Etna in the face of a new lava threat.

A front of lava, 1,000 yards wide, had slowed to a near halt early yesterday just above the villages of San'tAlfio, Fornazzo and Milo. Then one of seven fingers of lava, pushing out from the main front, took on new life, rushing down the mountain at 230ft an hour. (AAP) sffij' Sylvester Magee, who will be 130 years old on Saturday, points proudly to his new set of upper teeth. The plate has two gold teeth, each set with a diamond of about a quarter of a carat. A jeweller gave the stones to New Orleans dentist, Dr Robert Brocato, who made the plate as a gift to Magee, who lives in Columbia, Mississippi.

According to records in the Mississippi state archives, Magee was born a slave in North Carolina in 1841. North Vietnamese units fired rockets into an allied base near the demilitarised zone last night for the fifth successive night of shellings Five 122 millimetre rockets crashed into Charlie 1, a joint South Vietnamese-American artillery base six miles south of the DMZ. Charlie 1 is six miles north-east of Charlie 2, a US base that suffered scores of dead and injured when a rocket pierced a crowded bunker on Friday. Further south, two time bombs, apparently planted by enemy sappers, exploded at an ammunition supply point on Saturday at the Quang Tri base, A command spokesman said an American soldier was killed and about 200 A pair of seascapes by Senator Kennedy's sisters, Mrs Patricia Kennedy Lawford and Mrs Jean Kennedy Smith were also sold at the auction. Mrs Smith's "Red Sail' was sold for (about $1,399) while Mrs Lawford's "Snowfall Cape Cod was bought by hotel owner Mr Jack Dunfey for $US9UU (about I8W).

were all by Mr Robert Morey, a close friend of the late President John Kennedy. (AAP) his Peugeot as he was reversing from the garage of his home in Western Rosario to go shopping. Security forces throughout Argentina were alerted today for a massive search for Mr Sylvester and bis kidnap-pers. The revolutionary army said in a statement to the press that Mr Syl vester would be placed at the disposal of "popular justice courts." It did not elaborate. A statement, allegedly issued by the kidnappers, indicated that Mr bylves ter had been abducted both for his position as consul and as director of the Swift packing plant.

Mr Sylvester was born in Rosario of British par entage. In neighbouring Uruguay, British Ambassador Geoffrey Jackson, who was seized by left-wing Tupamaros urban gueril las in Montevideo on January 8, is apparently sun in their hands. The revolutionary army said the kidnapping had been carried out by its Luis N. Blanco com' mand" to mark the start of a week honouring Blanco, a student killed here two years ago in disturbances that rocked Rosario and 16 other cit ies. Guerillas hold British consul LONDON, Monday.

More than 3,000 people ap plauded and cheered Australian opera star, Joan Sutherland, aftir a recital in the Royal Albert Hall here last night. Miss Sutherland's only appearance in London this year was in aid of the Self help Foundation's "Effort Australia" program. Her husband, Richard Bonvnse. conducted the New Philharmonia Orchestra while Miss Sutherland sang with Joseph Clement. Alberto Kemeaios ana Australian.

Thomas McDonnell. A the enH nf the recital the mirlienre stnnd shoutinrz for Miss Sutherland to re turn to the stage. Flowers One young fan leapt from the stalls and knelt at the sinner's feet to present her with a bouquet of flowers. More than 6,500 ($13,930) was raised. The Self-help Foundation was established in 1967 to raise funds for needy New Guineans, independent of creed, and especially tnose in neglected areas.

The "Effort Australia' designed to show what Australia is doing to assist the Territory in its progress towards self-government and independence. (AAP) Autorlnss Non-heater BOSTON, Monday A painting by Senator Edward Kennedy brought the highest bid at an auction of 40 works of art last night to raise funds for the Kennedy Library Fund. Senator Kennedy's "Red Shack" brought ($2,680) at the auction, which raised a total, of (about Senator Kennedy's painting was purchased by Miami millionaire Mr Ollie Cohen, who said he bought it for his wife, Eleanor, and would display it at their summer home in Hyannis-port. Mr Sylvester and 'the woman in a Fiat 150G car, which blocked Park set for win in Korea SEOUL. Monday.

President Chung-hee Park's Democratic Republican Party appears to be swing ing towards a comfortable parliamentary majority in Tuesday's general elections for the 204-seat National Assembly. Main interest centres on whether voters will heed an Opposition appeal for more than one third of the assembly seats. Defeated presidential candidate. Dae-iung Kim of the New Democratic Party, has warned that if President Park won a two- thirds majority in the assembly, as in 1967, his supporters would move to keep him in power for life. (AAP-Reuter) Hoover offers the biggest choice UPI plcturt Standard Non-heater Non-heatar 601 Wringer washing machines at the lowest prices ever Fantastic valuel Re-Introduced by popular demand.

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