West Irian poll to use one vote per 800 people
Indonesian officials outlined the upcoming act of free choice in West Irian. Voters will be counted by one vote for every 800 residents, with participation expanding to West Irian natives abroad. Voting will involve local assemblies tribal chiefs and community heads, planned for August amid international agreements.
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Diakarta
Aap-Reuter
West Irian
Information
Budiardje
Foreign Office
Malik
Majori
Mahmud
Budiardja
Eil
Canevere
Indonesia
Rudiardjo
West Irianene
Howe
West Tran
Sutarto
West Transit
West Trian
Dr Sudjarno
Australia
Netherlands
West Triton
Forum for dissidents in Britain's Catholic Church
London Sunday report says an experimental religious council will be set up to cater for dissident elements in the Roman Catholic Church in Great Britain. Cardinal John Heenan, leader of Britain's five million Catholics, said the council would be formed in his diocese as the first of a nationwide system of Catholic forums giving priests, religious orders and laypeople a chance to voice opinions to the bishops.
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London
Great Britain
John Heenan
Britain
Three yachts fail to reach Macao after China voyage
A late news item reports three yachts sailing from Hong Kong yesterday may not reach Macao. Patrol boats may have picked up one vessel, while another yacht claimed it was boarded before rescue. The statement lacks full details on the others.
Rhodesian plan creates separate electoral rolls for Africans and whites
Salisbury reports Rhodesia's proposed constitution sets a multi race Parliament with distinct electoral rolls and provincial Parliaments for Africans and whites. Prime Minister Smith says it entrenches white rule and may lead to a May referendum, while resisting full apartheid.
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Salisbury
Aap-Reuter
Rhodesia
Mr Smith
Smith
Soviet Spy Ships Reported Off Australia
The Sunday Times says two Soviet spy ships, the Van Gogh and the Promoter, operated off Australia posing as trawlers. They allegedly refuelled at sea and gathered signals from key defence bases in Northern Australia, raising US concern over Polaris submarine stations at North West Cape and Manus Island.
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AAP
Australia
Sunday Times
van Gogh
Dskra
Gulf of Carpentaria
Queensland
America
South Pacific
Indian Oceans
North-west Cape
Western Australia
Manus Island
New Guinea
Germ war charge denied by Australian minister
Melbourne Sunday report says Minister for Supply Senator Anderson denied that Australia and its allies conduct chemical or biological warfare experiments in Queensland. He commented on a BBC programme aired on ABC television alleging tests on a site near Lanisfail involving Australia the United States and Britain.
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Melbourne
Anderson
Australia
Queensland
BBC
ABC
United States
Poverty blamed for early end to studies
The Federal secretary of the ALP, Mr Wyndham, said many Canberra and national cases show poverty forces children to leave school before the compulsory final year. He cited 32 percent of Canberra’s early leavers and argued society must address family poverty to protect educational potential. Officials described exemption procedures and welfare checks in Canberra.
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ALP
Wyndham
Anberra
Wesleyn Church
Melbourne
Canberra
Darling
Australia
ACT Education Branch
Department of Education and Science
West Indies crumble at Sydney after promising start
At the Sydney Cricket Ground the West Indies collapsed from 1 for 154 to 193 all out as Alan Connelly and Graham McKenzie ripped through the top order. Brian Tuber took five catches, while West Indies’ Joey Carew reached a second century partnership as the Calypso side lagged in the final Test.
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Sydney Cricket Ground
Australia
Alan Connelly
Graham McKenzie
Brian Tuber
Sydney
West Indies
Joey Carew
Kanhor
Rhodesia constitution proposals split voters by race
The plan abolishes the A and B rolls and divides voters into European and African rolls. A central Parliament would include 66 seats with 50 elected by European voters and eight each for Africans and an electoral college. African seats would rise with national tax contributions, enlarging the parliament to a maximum of 50 seats. Britain awaits Smith regime reply to Fearless independence proposals and Salisbury announced constitution details.
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Oan Electro College
Smith
Rhodesian Front
London
Aap-Reuter
Britain
Rhodesia
Wilson
Gibraltar
Salisbury
Missing girl found in New Zealand after escape
Kerry-Jane Wills, 12, who vanished from Kalorama in the Dandenongs last August, ran away from police in Auckland after her grandmother Alma Jessie Menzies, 63, was arrested. Menzies was granted bail at 05 pm. Kerry-Jane telephoned police from Herne Bay and agreed to surrender if she could speak to her grandmother. Mrs Menzies faces charges of fraudulently removing Kerry-Jane from Victoria. her arrest warrant was issued by Kerry-Jane's mother, Pauline Woodward.
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Melbourne
Kerry-Jane Wills
Kalorama
Dandenongs
Auckland
New Zealand
Alma Jessie Menzies
East St Kilda
Herne Bay
Kerry-Jane
St Mary's Corvent
Herne Ray
Menzies
J. R. Drummond
Central Police Court
Victoria
Pauline Woodward
Woodward
Heart surgeon faces double murder charges in Japan
In Sapporo six practitioners of Chinese traditional medicine filed complaints charging Professor Jura Wada, Japan's only heart transplant surgeon, with double murder. Wada returned from a world tour to be questioned. The donor, Yoshimasa Yamaguchi, age 21, allegedly drowned before death was confirmed, and the recipient Nobuo Miyazaki, 18, died three days after receiving the heart from a drowning victim.
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Sapporo
Japan
Jura Wada
Yoshimasa Yamaguchi
One dead two wounded in Vietnam overrun of supply dump
An Australian was killed and two were wounded when a Communist supply dump north of Bien Hoa was overrun on Friday. The page notes include other briefs such as a Vatican remark on egg fertilisation and ministry changes in Australia.
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Vietnam
Reg Blueberry
Freeth
Gribble
McMahon
Alan Fitzgerald
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