Daily Post (Merseyside ed.) from Liverpool, Merseyside, England • 9

Liverpool Daily Post' Thursday March 16 1978 9 Fans weep at My Way writers funeral ABOUT 10000 grieving fans stood dm teeming rain outside a Paris church yesterday to bid an emotional farewell to top French pop singer Claude Francois Howls of grief broke out as flower-bedecked coffin was carried from the Auteuil church after an hour-long funeral sendee attended by his family and scores of French show business personalities as he was known to millions of fans had been one of most popular singers Among songs he wrote was Comme d'Habitude which Frank Sinatra made famous under the title My Way The 39-year-old star was electrocuted on Saturday apparently while trying to change a faulty light bulb ini his bathroom He had two children Thousands of people of all ages began queuing outside the church early yesterday to pay tribute to their fair-haired idol was sot young so beautiful It was so sobbed) one 15-year-old girl weeping in her arms Claude Francois The world this morning Top cellist stripped of Russian citizenship WORLD-FAMOUS Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and hi wife opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya have been stripped of their Soviet citizenship it was announced yesterday Nuclear test blast by China Suicide squad hits backlash A decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet published in the Government wspaper Izvest'ia effectively bar them from returning from -abroad to the Soviet Union- Izvestia said the action was being taken because (they had engaged in activities harming the prestige of the Soviet Union The oellist who is 50 left the Soviet Union t-o live in the West in 1974 He said he would) return only -when -there was total artistic liberty in the Soviet Union In 1970 he defended novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn against allega-ti-ons that he had denigrated Soviet life Rostropovich arrived in London -on May 26 1974 on what was called a prolonged concert tour Miss Vishnevskaya arrived with ings of the Moluccan community last summer when six Molucoan guerrillas died after marines isitormed a train in which they had held over 50 hostages for 19 days Shock and mourning at the deaths led the Moluccan community to close ranks in hitter resentment LEADERS of South Moluccan community have condemned the who held more than 70 people hostage and given tacit approval to the Government's decision to force to free them The 29-hour siege when an elite anti-terror unit of Dutch marines stormed a government office block in Assen only a minute before the first two captives were to be killed All three guerrillas aged 19 20 and 22 survived and were arrested They may mow face murder or manslaughter charges for the killing of 40-year-old planning official Karel De Groot shot and thrown out of a first-floor window on Monday Mr Johan Manusama self-styled President of the exiled South Molucoan Republic in Holland said he was thankful for the way the siege ended and believed most South Moluccans in exile would condemn the arrested commando unit His reaction was in marked contrast to feel- Mother of French pop supported by friends as Notre Dame idol Claude Francois is she leaves his funeral at Paris yesterday CHINA yesterday exploded a nuclear device in the atmosphere at its Lop Nor test site in North-West China the United States Department of Energy reported yesterday The agency said the explosion was monitored at 5 am It said the device had an explosive yield of iess than 20 kilotons (20000 tons of TNT) The agency said the US Environmental Protection Agency had been told of the blast and would monitor the radiation effect in the atmosphere Treaty The last reported Chinese nuclear test was on September 17 last year It also had a yield of under 20 kilotons according to the energy department A radioactive cloud caused by the blast later crossed over several countries including the United States and Japan In November 1976 US monitoring agencies said China had exploded a nuclear device equivalent to four million tons of TNT China is not a signatory of the nuclear test ban treaty which forbids explosions in the atmosphere Last September Peking disclosed officially it had tested guided nnssiies with nuclear warheads Atlantic fares agreement near seal pup plan against the government The Moluccans exiled in Holland believe this events might eventually help their (relations with the Dutch community Prime Minister Andreas Van Agt described the three extremists as iai tiny splinter group of hotheads and called on the Dutch not to hold all or even part of the Moluccan community responsible The Dutch government yesterday absolved the 40K)0 South Moluccans in Holland from the hostage drama saying it was the work of young Interior Minister Hans Wiegel said the action oould not be laid at the door of the whole community Speaking -after a visit to the room where the hostages narrowly escaped death he pledged dialogue with the exiled community and order must be obeyed by everyone in Holland We have got to learn to live he said Talks in The Hague between the Government and Moluccan leaders scheduled before the hostage action will go ahead as planned today The Moluccan activists want independence for land formerly ia- Dutch col-their Pacific island home-ony and now part of Indonesia Successive Dutch governments have made it clear they are powerless to grant or support this claim of part of an independent nation Mstislav Rostropovich Prolonged tour (their two daughters shortly afterwards- Rostropovich was in 1975 named to be the Principal Conductor and Musical Director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington for the 1977-78 Bea'son Miss Vishnevskayai aged 51 (is aformer sol-olst with Bolshoi Theatre Rapists to face death penalty RAPE or unnatural sexual intercourse with a minor will be punishable by dath under a Pakistani martial law regulation issued yesterday Other offences now carrying a maximum penalty of death included enticing away a minor or person of unsound mind and wrongfully confining a person to extort ransom General Zia-ul-Uaq chief martial law administrator said kidnappers would in future he executed military government said recently it would tackle the problem after newspapers expressed concern over a wave of Stabbed captain A BRITISH merchant navy captain is seriously ill ini hospital after being stabbed mi his vessel during a storm in the Channel on Tuesday night port authorities ini Saint Brieuc France said Leslie Allan Clark master of the 597-ton cargo vessel Moler Venture was stabbed twice as thei ship rode out a storm off the French coast French coastguards received emergency messages anfl a fishing vessel managed to get a doctor on beard But Captain Clark was not brought ashore until the Moler Venture decked yesterday He was taken to hospital in Rennes for emergency treatment Maritime! police are holding a crew member in their inquiries A CANADIAN official scoffed yesterday at MP John plan to rescue a family Of baby seals from the men who are now clubbing seal pup to death in the controversial annual hunt he touches a seal we will he arrested illegal to touch a seal without permit and I doubt get said Charles Friend assistant to Canadian Fisheries Minister Romeo Leblanc Britain signed last summer The latest rift developed in January -when two US airlines Pan American and1 Trans World nought to extend low fares beyond the New ork-Londom route Halt Tt brok-e Into the open when the British turned down a Braniff Airlines proposal to offer cut-rate ion its new route-from Dallas to London delaying the scheduled! start of the service on March 1 The US Civil Aviation Pi For something unusual and precious in DIAMONDS GOLD tryOHARES Ou rs is a slock of variety and value second to none for example from a 22ct Mazpa ring Hallmarked 1883 at £1650 to a secondhand Diamond Set Platinum Bracelet at £2500 or perhaps a Secondhand Diamond Solitaire (approx 240cts) at £2750 Come and see how competitive our prices in New and Secondhand Jewellery really are 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