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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jun 18, 1962
Page
1
Unconfirmed reports say OAS policy maker in Algiers met Moslem Nationalist leaders at Rocher Noir seeking guarantees of rights for Europeans in a future independent Algeria. Hope for an end to terrorism grows amid the talks reported Sunday.
The article reports ABC and AP notices that a peace treaty may be signed and an amnesty declared for OAS members in Algeria. European leaders, including M. Pompidou, were said to back immediate cooperation with Muslims. Moroccan forces reportedly crossed into the Algerian Sahara, raising new tensions.
The U S Flight Engineers Union today announced plans to strike over a dispute with Pan American Trans World and Eastern Airlines. They offered no date and did not confirm all three airlines would be involved. The strike defies President Kennedy’s appeal for arbitration over crew reductions merging pilot and flight engineer duties.
Flooding cut highways in Tasmania with Huonville’s main street inundated and hundreds of acres of orchards and grazing land flooded. At least 100 sheep perished as emergency crews rescue stock. Winds damaged roofs and felled lines severing communications along the coast and major routes.
Three convicts who escaped from Alcatraz last week are believed drowned. A plastic bag found near the Golden Gate Bridge reportedly held names and addresses of people they hoped to contact. The trio were convicted bank robbers who cut through a skylight with a sharpened spoon.
A London visitor screamed watching sentries outside St James Palace as a guard bled from a bayonet cut. A woman and another tried to bind the wound with a handkerchief while a constable summoned the orderly officer. The replacement guard took position and the line remained unmoved.
Australian Immigration Minister Downer said talks with Italian government leaders on emigration to Australia had been successful. He noted some points still require clarification before his departure by air to Madrid.
Soon after lunch yesterday the Yarralumla 1st Boy Scouts gathered about 1000 dozen bottles from residents. Scouts and helpers sort and stack the bottles before transporting them to the bottle exchange.
An Invercargill man woke from anaesthetic to discover a leg operation had been performed on his nose. Hospital officials blamed nurse shortages while stressing the mistake was not the fault of a doctor.
U.S. officials quoted Averell Harriman saying the Soviet leadership pressed Indonesia to use force to seize West New Guinea from the Netherlands. He said Moscow hopes a battle would provoke broader opposition to a peaceful settlement, increasing Indonesian dependence on the USSR.
The U S believed that bringing the adversaries back to the conference table would iron out final differences and yield a peaceful solution. The remark framed efforts toward negotiation and a settlement through dialogue.
Scientists civic authorities and pastoralists from Darwin to Bourke will attend the Federal Inland Development Organisation conference in Bourke next weekend. The event begins Saturday afternoon with major hotels fully booked as visitors travel for the gathering.
The FBI said a man named Thomas G. Doty of Kansas City bought dynamite and a 300000 dollar life policy payable to his wife before boarding the airliner that exploded over Centreville Missouri on May 22 killing 45. Doty, facing armed robbery and concealed weapon charges, had told friends he planned to take his life rather than face trial.
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