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1 WORLD NEWSJ fa Sydney Hor ulna Htfild. TrUiy, Juw 1975 on the fence: Japan fears Asian cold war From MARGARET JONES, Stall Comtpondeat TOKYO, Thursday. Japan tees a cold war starting in Asia between the Soviet Union and China in the wake of the Indo-China war. Japan will try to avoid choosing sides because, as a great economic power, it could tip the balance in a delicate and difficult situation. Foreign Ministry sources here made this clear today in the course of diverse talks on tensions in- the region.

But they reaffirmed also Japan's irrevocable commitment to a joint security system with' the United States, even though this puts it out of step with its neighbours in the area, who are rethinking their US commitments. The Prime Minister, Mr Mild, will visit Washington for talks with President Ford on August 5-6 and is expected to confirm that ties with the US remain SUPER POWERS PILE ON PRESSURE side observers to have cooled a little since last year. At that time Japan waa going to buy about 25-' million tonnes of crude oil from the Soviet Union and make a million (about JA1.530 million) investment in extracting natural gas from the Yakut fields. Neither plan has come to anything and Japan is looking to China's rich oilfields to supply part of its energy needs. Roy Macartney, Staff Correspondent, reports from Washington! The US Secretary of Slate, Dr Kissinger, told the Japan Society in New York last night that the United States "would not turn away from Asia." Dr Kissinger was trying to reassure Japan over US reverses in Indo-China.

"We will permit no question to arise about the firmness of our treaty commitments to Japan and other Asian allies," he said. The United States was "resolved to maintain the peace and security of the Korean peninsula, for this is of crucial importance to Japan and to all of Asia." Sitting Melbourne tHeltotmitt INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL HOTEL jHOTIL EVERY ROOM EVERY BOOM RESERVATIONS: MELBOURNE 3299344 MELBOURNE 3299344 OR YOUR TRAVEL A6ENT OR YOUR TRAVEL A9EMT the focal point of Japanese foreign policy and defence thinking. The biggest US defence grouping in the Far East is in Japan, with 65,000 combat troops. Japanese bases provide headquarters for the Fifth Air Force and borne- port facilities for the Seventh Fleet. Japanese officials do not believe this strong commitment alienates them from their Asian neighbours.

They believe that however reluctant China may be to take a public stance on the matter, it is only too pleased to have a major US presence in the region as it fears Russian expansion. China's obsessional concern about the alleged Rus sian threat is being reinforced by reports that the Soviet Union is seeking bases in South Vietnam, thus taking a major step towards encirclement of China. Japanese officials said Japan did not want to take sides in the dangerously escalating Sino-Soviet con flict, so it would not agree to the inclusion of an anti-hegemony clause in the proposed China-Japan peace and friendship treaty. The treaty talks seem to have reached deadlock because China will not withdraw its demand that the clause be included. The Soviet Union urged Japan this week to "act cautiously'' over the clause.

Japanese officials said neither their country nor China would seek hegemony over each other or other countries in the region. But China was also insisting that opposition to third-power hegemony be included. This obviously was a device to force Japan into taking sides with China against the Soviet Union. It would put Japan into an embarrassing position visa-vis the United States, too, which might be said to be exercising a sort of hegemony in the region. Japanese officials were fairly non-commital about relations with the Soviet Union which seem to out ceaos cesoa fit 4 Sandra Rivett killed by peer: jury verdict Best slave a girl could desire.

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Blood found downstairs was mainly group B. The coroner, Dr Gavin Thurston, asked whether footprints of blood found in. the breakfast room could have been made by a policeman inadvertently stepping in blood on the stairs. Dr Pereira replied: "They could be from almost anyone with fairly large feet She said she examined blood samples in many parts of the Lucan house. She described extensive smearing and splashes of Lord Lucan.

40, who had been living apart from his wife, disappeared soon I afterwards. Police havrf issued a warrant charging him with, the murder of Mrs Rivett and the attempted murder of his wife. Dr Pereira, a senior police scientific officer, told the court that the Ford Corsair car borrowed by Lucan and found abandoned at Newhaven Sussex had bloodstains on the front off-side door, both front seats, steering wheel and dashboard. Dr Pereira said some of the blood was group similar to Lady Lucan's, some was group similar to Mrs Riv-ett's, and that some was a mixture of both groups. A piece of lead piping also had been found in the car.

It was bound in a simitar manner to the bloodstained piece of piping found in the Lucan home which is alleged to have been used in the attack on Lady Lucan and her nanny. The pipe in the car had minor differences in the bandaging around it and there were no bloodstains on it, she said. LONDON, Thursday. A jury found today that Mrs Sandra Rivett, 29, was murdered by Lord Lucan, the missing earl. They, named him as the murderer in a dramatic climax to the four-day inquest at Westminster Coroner's Court after being out for 31 minutes.

The jury, six men and three women, had been told by Lady Lucan that her husband tried to strangle her on the night Mrs Rivett, the Lucan children's nanny, waa beaten to death. In evidence yesterday a forensic scientist said a car borrowed by Lord Lucan and later found abandoned contained bloodstains matching the blood types of his battered wife and Mrs Rivett Dr Margaret Pereira, 48, known to her police colleagues as Miss Murder," was giving evidence at the third day of 1 the inquest into the death of the nanny, Mrs Sandra Rivett, 29. Mrs Rivett was battered to death and Lady Lucan, 37, beaten at the Lucan home in Belgravia, London, on November 7. blood on walls, carpets and ceilings. Considerable force would have had to be used to cause the kind of radiating pattern of blood found on the stairway In the Lucan home, she said.

Blood found there was likely to have come from a weapon striking a wound which was already bleeding. Earl's fate a mystery Dr Thurston said it was very rare for a jury to name someone a verdict. As there was no one to commit for trial, in the normal way, the verdict murder By Lord Lucan would remain on file. If Lord Lucan reappeared, he would be charged and appear before the courts. i As the jury returned its decision, Lady Lucan sat impassively.

Lord Lucan's foot of the stairs. Extensive police inquiries have been made all over the world to try to trace Lord Lucan. It is not known whether he is alive. In evidence at the inquest. Lady Lucan was asked about only the attack on herself.

The jury foreman said today the jury wanted to know how Lady Lucan knew her nanny had been murdered. But after consultations with lawyers, in the absence of the jury, the coroner said that only Lady Lucan could clarify this, and she was barred by law from giving evidence against her husband unless it concerned only the assault on her. The coroner told jurors to dismiss from their minds a remark by Lady Lucan: "He's murdered my sJ" 1 1 I Chief Inspector David Gerring told the inquest that there were no signs of forcible entry to the Lucan home on the night of the attack. He was questioned about Lord Lucan's claim that he was passing the house when he saw an attack taking place and intervened. Inspector Gerring said police had been unable to find any trace of anyone else in the house that night.

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