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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Sep 27, 1971
Page
12
Sammy Davis Jr, 48, was discharged from a Las Vegas hospital after a week for liver treatment. He said he nearly died and would slow his career per doctors’ advice, noting they warned he had about three years to live unless he curtails activity.
In London a Soviet secret agent defected amid a romantic dispute, prompting Britain's largest spy purge. Britain ordered 105 Soviet diplomats and officials from the country for alleged industrial espionage linked to the Concorde project. The defector allegedly shared KGB methods and targeted electronics, transformers, semiconductors, and computer electronics. The purge will cut nearly one fifth of Soviet personnel in Britain, with officers focusing on intelligence and industrial espionage.
The French Prime Minister Delmus, aged 56, who lost his wife in a round accident last year, has married Micheline Chavelet of Friday in Bordeaux. The announcement came from Bordesus authorities.
Thieves cut The Love Letter from its frame at the Brussels Museum of Fine Arts during a Fri night break in. It was part of the Rembrandt and his time exhibit and valued over 150 million Belgian francs. Police suggest entry via a first floor window and a rope made from broken glass and curtains. In related crime, a Queen’s Gallery painting was stolen and later recovered. Police in Genoa Naples Bologna raided to recover works totaling over 20 million lire.
U S authorities report heroin valued at about 40 million dollars seized from a Ford car aboard the steamship Raffaello arriving from Genoa in New York. Three men held. earlier a Jaguar on the Queen Elizabeth I yielded 200 pounds of heroin. Amsterdam police arrest two Canadians including envoy’s son after four suitcases packed with 60 kilograms of hashish were found at Schiphol Airport.
The New York State Corrections Department reported another Attica State Prison inmate died at a Buffalo hospital, bringing the death toll from the up rising to 42, according to the Associated Press.
The British Foreign Office handed Gromyko a note outlining enduring friction over Soviet intelligence operations in Britain. It cites repeated expulsions, visa withdrawals, and a push to cap Soviet embassy and trade delegation staffing. It calls for the named officials to leave within two weeks and imposes caps on Soviet personnel and reentry visa holders.
Burma's government appointed a nine member commission to draft a new constitution. The panel will be led by Deputy Prime Minister Brigadier San Yu, with completion eyed for August 1973. The old constitution was suspended after the 1962 coup.
Mitchell Sores has been charged with misconduct ranging from conspiracy and obstruction of justice to engaging in private activities inconsistent with his duties as a judge. The New York Times News Service reported this development.
President Banda of Malawi arrived in Mozambique on Friday for the first visit by a black African state to the Portuguese African province. The state visit signals improving ties and regional cooperation in southern Africa.
In Saigon hundreds of combat police surrounded the presidential palace the National Assembly and radio station as protests against next week’s uncontested election flared. Thieu urged calm while students veterans and others clashed with police injuring several. several vehicles were firebombed and a former serviceman attempted self immolation. Police stepped up spot checks as authorities warned against rumors of a coup. In Cambodia a separate attack on a dam project damaged equipment and killed soldiers, with damages estimated up to 1.3 million dollars.
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