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Canberra Times

Location

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Date

May 24, 1961

Page

2

Heroin Smuggling Ring Nabbed in Newark Crackdown

Italian police arrested five members of a heroin ring amid a crackdown. UPI reports indictments name four defendants with ties to peddlers in Italy and the United States. The Attorney General says the ring manufactured and smuggled heroin into the United States, possibly controlling much of the northeast trade since 1951, with an estimated 770 thousand dollars brought in.

Ting Haly Paces Newark United Press International Hig France United States Chauge Kennedy

U K Moves To Ease Spain Into Alliance

A British newspaper reports Britain seeks to ease Spain into the Western alliance amid Socialist Nordic opposition to Franco's dictatorship. The Daily Mail headline notes Spain’s exclusion from international consensus while Home Secretary R A Butler defends Western unity.

U.K Spain London Britain Scandinavia Branco The Daily Mail R. A. Butler

NASA declines to discuss women pilots in space training

The agency declined to speculate on when space projects might include women. A spokesperson said there are no individual astronauts in training and NASA is not conducting male or female space crew research at this time. The statement followed James Webb noting that W. Randolph Lovelace had begun testing women pilots.

NASA James Webb Said eBoye Rammeé I. W. Randolph Lovelace

Subsidies Paid for Oil Exploration in Queensland and Palau Fly River

Personnel from the Australian petroleum sector reported subsidies approved yesterday. Delhi Australian Petroleum Ltd received 2654 yan pp for a hole survey at Binlyville Iceland Exploration. Patel Yema Ltd was granted 21962 pounds for a marine seismic survey in the Palbua Fly River areas of Pamin.

Delhi Australian Petroleum Ltd Binlyville Patel Yema Ltd M.sidy Palbua Fly Pamin

Russian spaceflight official visits Sofia amid communist ties

Yuri Sogarin arrived in Sofia invited by the Bulgarian Communist Party and government. The high level visit underscores cooperation between space programs and Bulgaria during the era.

Spaceman Touls Sofia Yuri Sogarin Inv Bulgait Communist Party

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