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The Vancouver Sun from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 34

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QUESTIONS AT $300 A SHOT I 1 BBS 34 THE VANCOUVER SUN: July 8, 196-1 Tshombe Lines Up French Students Pay Price For Pre-Examination Peek U.S. COLONEL MISSING, HAS KEY TO SECRETS FT. LEWIS, Wash. (AP)--A ranking army officer with access to top secret information disappeared July 1 and was last seen on the west coast, officials said Tuesday. A Ft.

Lewis spokesman said Oscar T. Buchholtz, assigned to headquarters of the Continental Army Command, Ft. Monroe, was known to have been in Los Angeles Monday night. New Government Ex-Katanga President Claims Support of All Sides in Congo LEOPOLD VI LLE, The Congo (AP) Moiso Tshombe says he has lined up a new government for The Congo made up of 12 men who have never held baccalaureat examination would be arranged throughout France. Fouchet upheld the written tests hut instructed examiners to be particularly severe in the oral tests to follow.

A week later, when inquiries showed that 80 per cent of the students in Marseille and Toulon had cheated, the minister reversed his decision and ordered that candidates in those two cities would have to retake the written tests. QUICKIES "Wow! I think I'll start using The Sun Want Ads, tool" bought at once, to their poorer friends. Two days before the examination the papers could be bought for $30. Also by examination time the questions were available in other French university cities. Minister for education Christian Fouchet, when informed of the leakage, at once told the police and ordered an inquiry among professors and education officials who had known the contents of the papers It was expected that a new cabinet posts.

STOLEN ROLLS A GASSER Rj i GHALI PARIS (CDN) A gigantic fraud In (his year's bacca-laureat examination has led the French minister for education to invalidate the results in Marseille and Toulon and ponder on the integrity of his teachers and their pupils. Students in the two cities are retaking written tests In philosophy and natural science today. It is the first time in the annals of French education that an examination has had to be repeated on such a large scale. The baccalaureat determines whether French students can go on' to the major schools of hiaher education. Ten days ago when students all over France took the examination it was discovered Romania Eyes Postman Cut Load, Cached Two Tons WATERMILL, N.Y.

(AP) After delivering mail for 33 years, postman Lorin Shipper apparently decided to deliver only the important-looking letters and let It is not known whether President Joseph Kasavubu will accept Tshombe's lineup. The former president of Katanga, who led his province in a breakaway attempt that United Nations troops ended, announced Tuesday night he would hold four key posts. Old Province, Diplomats Say the rest pile up. Authorities found two tons Reds Shift Attack In Viet Nam War LONDON (UPD Romania, Tshombe was named premier-designate by Kasavubu on Monday, 10 days after returning irom a year of voluntary exile in Spain. In addition to premier, Tshombe said he f.

new Maverick in the Com BURN HAM, England (AP) Stanley Smith, 28, stole a Rolls-Royce, then found its gasoline consumption was beyond his resources. In six months the 28-year-old steward said he had tolen 1,290 gallons of gas from 17 different filling stations to keep his stolen Rolls on the roads. A magistrate passed the case to a higher court for sentencing of the sailor for Tor stealing both the limousine and gasoline. ot unopened mall, mostly perl odicals, circulars and advertis munist camp, was reported to ing matter in Shipper's garage would be foreign minister, In formation minister and minis and in two ancient cars parked on his lawn. The mall was postmarked 1953 and 1954.

About 10 per ter of planning and co-ordina the Central Highlands must number well over 300 in the last 10 days. the questions had been offered for sale in advance to many of them Sale of the questions began in Marseilles streets and bars. The price was $300 at the start, but it fell as time went by and the secret spread from the richer students, who had tion. Ex-Premier Cyrille Adoula and his cabinet, who resigned on the Congo's fourth independence day June 30, continue in a caretaker status day to have challenged Russia's post-war annexation of its former province of Bessarabia. Romanian leaders, striving for more independence from Moscow, made the surprising challenge as a warning signal In their mounting quarrel with the Kremlin, East European diplomats said.

The Romanian move was the first known case of one of By PETER ARNKT1 SAIGON (AP) The Communists have shifted the centre of their war effort in South Viet Nam from the swampy Mekong Delta to the Central Highlands in the last 10 days. Senior South Vietnamese officers believe the Reds have moved troops in from North Viet Nam to get the war momentum moving in the high until a new government takes over. An American spokesman told reporters in Saigon he was baffled as to the real reason for the sudden concentration of Viet Cong effort in the central area. "Some people say this is nor-mal with the rainy season coming down around the delta area," he said. "Others say the Viet Cong are trying to divert us from the pacification cent was first-class mail.

The first-class letters will be delivered with the government's apologies or at least an explanation stamped on them. The junk mail, Including a horde of toothpaste samples, will be thrown away. Roy Peterson, postmaster, said there were no complaints of missed mail. "The carrier must have delivered all the mail he thought important and just put the rest away," Peterson said. Tshombe said his government of 12 "new and dynamic men" will concentrate on pacifying the big central African nation torn by Tribal rivalries Russia's Communist allies chal lenging the Stalinist annex ations of East European ter and revolts, some aided by Communist China.

effort in the south. Who knows ritory now behind the Iron Curtain. After feverish consultations Red Superset Moves Ahead MOSCOW (AP)-The head of the Soviet airline Aeroflot says Soviet designers working on a supersonic airliner hope to have one flying before the United States. Yevgeny F. Loginov told a news conference Tuesday that it is difficult to say who will be first, but added: "Appar what they are really trying to do?" The American high command is believed to be consid.

since his return, Tshombe, 44, has claimed support from all The Russians annexed the formerly Romanian owned LORIN SHIPPER load lightened major political groups includ province of Bessarabia after Canadian Quits Congo Rebel Town BUJUMBURA, Burundi AP) The lake steamer Baron flying the United Nations and Red Cross flags, returned from the rebel-held Congolese port of Albertville Tuesday with 100 refugees, including a Canadian, aboard. About 100 whites remained in the town. Many were refused permission to leave by the pro-Communist rebels. Among those evacuated were U.S. Baptist missionaries Elmer and Mary Deal of Neosho, Robert Greenhow of Windsor, and two Briiish missionary families.

"We had less trouble than I expected," said the ship's captain, Elavia Nariman. ering reinforcing some of the special forces camps dotted along the border with Laos Shipper, 75, who retired in 1956, told postal authorities he couldn't recall how the leftover mail got there. Peterson said there would be no prosecution. lands, a region that has been relatively quiet in the last 18 months. In the last week, three battalion-sized Communist assaults have erupted out of the central mountains.

Two isolated special forces camps were hit. One of them crumbled after nearly half of its defenders deserted to the Viet Cong. An ammunition convoy was almost overrun near a winding mountain pass in broad daylight. In these engagements, government forces lost 65 killed and 57 wounded, a South Vietnamese spokesman said. In all government casualties in Romania's liberation from German occupation by the Red Army in 1945.

Broaching of the delicate territorial and minority issues, considered taboo so far within the Red camp, was judged by East European experts an an explosive reminder to Moscow that all is not well in the ing extremist exiles of the dissident "National Liberation Committee." But leaders of this latter group in Brazzaville, capital of the former French Congo across the Congo River, have indicated strong reservations or opposition to Tshombe. The ebullient Tshombe said his government would rely on persuasion and conciliation rather than force of arms to reconcile the Congo's warring political factions. Man Fined $250 On Driving Count Joseph Archie Leduc, 21, of 3064 West Tenth, was found guilty of dangerous driving and was fined $250. His licence was suspended for 18 months. He was charged after his car crashed into a power pole at Cambie and Rob-son on May 26.

and northern Cambodia. Envoy Named OTTAWA (CP) Bruce Rankin, 46, Canadian deputy consul-general at New York, has been appointed ambassador to Venezuela and the Dominican Republic, External Affairs Minister Paul Martin has ently we will not he late." The joint British French supersonic airliner is expected to go into service before the proposed American one. Loginov's statement indicated that the Soviet Union hopes to beat the United States with commercial flights faster than sound. Kremlin's empire. Polar Prober Dies CAPE TOWN (AP) Professor Reginald William James, 73, a member of the marooned Antarctic expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton in 1914-1916, died here Tuesday.

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