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REEF REPUBLIC ANNEXED The VANCOUVER SUN: Apr. 3, 197317 SCREWS IN DASHBOARD FORCE VOLVO RECALL takes Minerva BY OMMDA, INDONESIA Viet Cong blamed for slayings falling inside the dashboard and rubbing against the steering column. The autos had first been recalled in December and the screws put back in, the spokesman said. He said the second recall was decided upon after it was discovered the screws, not their placement in the dashboard, were the problem. CHARGES FLY IN PARLEY PARIS (UPI) South Vietnam accused the Viet Cong today of provoking military incidents In Vietnam to wreck their talks on their country's political future.

The Viet Cong said the United States kept interfering in Vietnamese affairs. The charges were exchanged as the two sides met for the fifth time in an effort to break the deadlock in their talks aimed at setting up elections in South Vietnam. Under the Paris treaty, the two sides have until the end of the month to reach agreement. Nguyen Luu Vien, leading the Saigon delegation, told the Viet Cong negotiators: "Your activities in Vietnam since the ceasefire as much as your attitude at this conference table have clearly shown what working method you have adopted. "This consists of provoking incidents in Vietnam to use them as a pretext for demands that they be settled before any agenda can be agreed for discussion of basic problems." Tonga NUKUALOFA, Tonga (AP) The Republic of Minerva is no longer under water at high tide, but then it is no longer the Republic of Minerva.

It has been conquered by Tonga. "We have solved the problem by annexing it legally," says The Tongan king, Tau-fa'ahau Tupou IV, who steamed '280 miles to the isolated reefs to watch his flag rise over Minerva. The proclamation was made last year about the same time the president of Minerva, Morris Davis of Orange, flew in to negotiate with the king. The two heads of state did not meet. Davis' Caribbean Pacific Enterprises had claimed the two reefs after long searching for a place to set up a country with agovernment that wouldn't hassle or tax its people.

The reefs, 17 miles apart with a total circumference of 18 miles, just out of the South Pacific at low water. They disappear at high tide. Davis said a thorough check showed no one had asserted rights over them. Tonga, wary of a new neighbor and anxious about its traditional fishing grounds, had other ideas. It dispatched a gang of convicts with bags of cement to build a platform that towers three feet above high tide, so the reefs became land under international law.

Then the 375 pound king and a crowd of curious townsfolk piled into a copra boat and sailed for Minerva. After Paged traveller gets surprise SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Richard Corey heard his name paged at the San Francisco international airport and made his way as directed to a telephone. There, two airport policemen arrested him. The 28-year-old Corey had escaped from a prison work furlough program in San Jose, Calif. The FBI had got a tip as to his whereabouts and arranged for the trap.

a prayer meeting and a Tan-gan feast, the flag was planted next to a store of supplies left for possible shipwreck victims. Tonga's claim is supported by other neighborhing Pacific nations. "I have instructed all of my officials not to deal with the Minerva usurpers," says Ratu Sir Kamasese Mara, prime minister of nearby Fiji. Tonga has long considered Minerva its territory. Eleven years ago 17 Tongans survived 102 days on the reefs after their ship was smashed in rough weather.

Geologists say that in 1,000 years the coral shelves will become islands. The government apparently is willing to wait. Occasional reports from Australia and New Zealand say President Davis is recruiting an army. Tonga commissioned the South Pacific's first navy, just in case. "We have one patrol boat but we can use more," said the king.

LYXDHURST, N.J. (AP) -About 10,000 Volvos are being recalled for the second time in five months in the United States because of loose screws that could lead to steering difficulties, the Swedish auto company said Monday. A spokesman said some screws on the inside of the dashboard of the 1973 model Volvos were coming loose, Publisher MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (AP) Sir Etienne du Puch, publisher of the Nassau Tribune in the Bahamas, said Monday government harassment is forcing him either to sell his newspaper for half its worth or close it. "And when the Tribune goes, it will be the end to an opposition press in the Bahamas," the 74-year-old publisher told the freedom-of-the-press committee of the Inter-American Press Association at its mid-year meeting. passed on by the central ICCS Monday, Canadian and Indonesian observers reported their conclusions that a bridge in the Mekong Delta was blown up in violation of the ceasefire agreement.

But Hungarian and Polish observers refused to endorse that conclusion as well. One of the Communist delegations added its own conclusion that the bridge had not been blown up, but fell down, commission sources said. Canadian diplomats expressed some satisfaction Monday night that they had succeeded in getting a formal set of procedural rules adopted by the ICCS. The rules have been worked out over the last two months, and were finally approved by Monday's ICCS meeting. Canadian sources said the rules were generally close to those proposed by Canada at the beginning, on four points.

Canada wanted the meetings of the commission open to the press, and publication of the ICCS minutes, but could not win Hungarian and Polish agreement to either one. Hungary and Poland also veteod any formal liaison between the ICCS and the old International Control Commission in Laos, which may be revitalized under a new ceasefire agreement there. And the Canadians, who wanted local ICCS teams to have full authority to initiate their own investigations without consulting any higher authority, had to settle for a compromise, under which investigations can be authorized at any of the seven regional headquarters around South Vietnam. By JAMES ANDERSON Special to The Sua SAIGON Canadian and Indonesian truce observers Monday blamed the Viet Cong for the bloodiest terrorist incidents since the January ceasefire in Vietnam. Twenty-two persons were killed and eighty-five were wounded in the early hours of March 15 when a grenade exploded in a Buddhist pagoda packed with members of South Vietnam's Cambodian ethnic minority during an all-night religious ceremony.

Polish and Hungarian ceasefire observers went along on the investigations the following morning at Zoai Xiem, a coastal village in the Mekong Delta eight miles southwest of Saigon. But the Communist members of the International Commission of Control and Supervision did not endorse the report filed by the Canadians and Indonesians. The report reached the central ICCS at its meeting Monday and was forwarded to the South Vietnamese and Viet Cong delegations of the central Joint Military Commission. The Canadian-Indonesian report said that the grenade blast appeared to be a "calcu-lated act of terrorism" by the Provisional Revolutionary Government, ICCS sources said. The pagoda's chief monk told the truce observers that men who identified themselves as Viet Cong agents sought his political, cooperation during the week be- fore the grenade incident and threatened reprisals when he refused.

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