PAGE 8, THE HERALD, Thursday, April 20, 1978

Neutron bomb

in France?

PARIS (AP) — The
newspaper France Soir
says France has exploded
an experimental neutron
bomb at Mururoa Atoll,
its South Pacific test

base.

Political writer Pierre
Sainderichin says that a
“senior military officer”
told him the explosion
was a “full-scale labo-
ratory experiment.”

The writer says three
or four years would be
needed to solve problems,
“particularly —elec-
tronic,"’ and develop an
operational neutron
bomb. He says the device
tested was too large to be
used as an artillery war-

ead.

But he says the test put
France ‘on about the
same level as the United
States and 10 years ahead
of the Soviet Union” in
neutron weaponry.

Sainderichin says

President Valery Giscard
d'Estaing has not yet
made the decision to
continue development of
the neutron bomb “but it
is almost sure that he

The French govern-
ment has made no an-
nouncements about
nuclear tests at Mururoa
since testing there was
moved underground in

. 1975 following protests

from countries around
the Pacific against
nuclear explosions in the
atmosphere.

Officials refuse to
confirm or deny the
reports that the gov-
ernment is developing a
neutron bomb. Asked
about that last October,
Defence Minister Yvon
Bourges would say only
that France ‘‘was not
excluding any type of
weapons” from its nu-
clear-research program.

World Briefs

ST, PAUL, Minn. (AP)
— Most of the last-minute
tax questions are routine
to the U.S. Internal
Revenue Service agents
who handle thousands of
them this time of year.
But there are exceptions.

For ‘example, Bill
Knight of the local office
tells about the farmer
who “wanted us to tell
him the useful life of a
bull. We told him flatly,
‘We can’t depreciate your
bull, and. secondly, I
believe you’re asking the
wrong party.’”

Then there was the one
from a woman who
wanted to know if her
daughter's wedding costs
were deductible.

Told they were not, the
woman replied: ‘Well,
don’t approve of the man
my daughter is
marrying. Can I take a
casualty loss?’”

The answer was still
no.

PITTSBURGH (AP) —
Katie Genley is a hired

lip. She'll usé hers if -

you’re too shy, embar-
rassed or don’t have time
to use your own, .

The 27-year-old Pitt-
sburgh woman is the
founder and sole operator
of Lipservice. For a fee,
she’ make those
telephone calls that you
can't or won't,

She’s patched up
romances, settled
arguments and fielded
more than her share of
requests for stand-in
obscene telephone calls.

BOSTON (AP) — Four
years ago, Roger
Reynolds was given little
chance of walking again
after a parachuting
accident,

Now he has fulfilled his
ambition—to run the
Boston Marathon.

And he did it at better
than nine minutes a mile,
finishing the gruelling 40-
kilometre race Monday in
an unofficial time of three
hours and 50 minutes. |

"I don’t like to be told
Im unable to d

30 kdl

something,” said
Reynolds who was also |
celebrating his 25th birth-

day.

NEW YORK (AP) '— A
woman says that when
she andher husband went
to a female psychologist
for counselling, the
doctor advise the
husband to move out.
Then the couple divorced,
and two weeks later the
doctor married the man.
The woman is claiming
malpractice.

Justice Martin Stecher,
in Manhattan Supreme
Court, refused Tuesday to
dismiss the suit. Penny
Savader, 35 and the -
mother of two, filed it
against Nita Karp, who

I practiced at One Fifth

Ave., asking $306,500 in
damages.

Ms. Karp, of Green-
port, had asked that the
suit be dismissed on the
ground that it was ac-

ally an alienation-of-
affection suit. Such .
lawsuits .have heen

outlawed’ in’ New York -

state since 1935.

But the judge said,
“The action is not, on its
face, an action for.
alienation of affections,
criminal conversation,
seduction or breach of

‘contract to marry; it is

an action for malpractice

by a licensed psy-
chologist.”

Mrs. Savader also .
contended that she

became “extremely at-
tached” to Ms. in
their doctor-patient!
relationshi after
treatments began
January, 1975.

She said Ms. Karp
abruptly ended the
treatments in February,
1977, “for her own im-
proper motives,” causing ©

s. Savader ‘‘menta
and emotionial

discomfort and retarded

psychological progress
and - aggravated _ her
condition.”” -

The couple was
divorced June 5, 1977, and
Ms.- Karp married
Savader two weeks later.

led in

train wreck

Thirty persons were
killed ina train wreck on
India’s west coast, al
least 10 died in a tornado
on the other side ofthe
country, and = seven
persons perished across
e Bay of Bengal in a-
storm in Bangladesh.

The Bombay-
Ahmadabad express
slammed into the back-of
astanding suburban train
abo.it 50 kilometres north
of Bombay Tuesday
night, killing 30 persons
and injuring at least 60,
_ the United News of India

agency reported.

The last two cars of the
suburban train. were
knocked off the tracks.
They contained com-
partments reserved for
women, and many of the
casualties were women
or children.

Railway officials said
an inquiry has been or-
dered inte the accident.
They announced thal $125
will be paid to the family
of each person fatally

injured, $94 to passen ers
seriously injured and $31
to those slightly hurt.

At least 10 persons
were killed Tuesday and
many others injured
when a tornado hit Ka-
rimpur, about 150
kilometres northwest of

Caleutta, and several |

nearby villages, police
said. The tornado flat-
tened at least 20 villages
and left more than 10,000
homeless.

_ It was the second killer
tornado in the area in
three days. Newspapers
estimated that at least
300 people were killed in
the storm Sunday that hit
the ‘Keonjhar: area of
Orissa state,

In Bangladesh, seven
persons died Tuesday
afternoon in houses
collapsed by heavy winds
that battered the districts
of Kushtia and
Mymensingh. The storm
also hit Dacca, the“
capital, but no casualties.
were reported.

in |

— Still no sign of Moro’s body —

ROME {AP) — The
search for former
premier Aldo Moro's
ody continued today
amid speculation that the
Red Brigades’ an-
nouncement of his death
was a ruse.

Divers, trained -
mountain dogs and
hundreds of others were
searching in and around
snowbound Lake
Duchessa, 115 kilometres
northeast of Rome, where
a communique receiv
Tuesday said the body
would be found. Experts
said the message ap-

peared to have been’:

written by the terrorists
who grabbed Moro four
weeks ago and killed his
five bodyguards. But no
trace of the bodx was
found Tuesday, Jeadin

officials to speculate the

the communique was a
trick to take police awa

from the hunt for the kid-
nappers or a hoax to
further. the terrorists’

during the night to a
flooded stone quarry.
beside a highway 10
kilometres from the lake.
Investigators said the
metal fence between the
road and the quarry had
been cut, and-there were
signs of automobile tire

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tracks on the ground.
ROADS BLOCKED
Snow up to four metres
deep blocked roads
through the pine and
chestnut forests
surrounding Lake
Duchessa, so military
helicopters took the
searchers in from the

village of Corvaro, five.

‘kilometres away.

“We looked in that lake
and-another one nearby,
but there was nothing,”’
Pollée Col. Federico
Marzolla said. “But we

_are going to continue the
sgearch, =

‘What puzzles us is
that the surface of Lake

Duchessa was completely
frozen and covered by a
thick layer of snow, with
no indication that anyone
could have been there in
months.” mo

He said there were
dozens of small lakes in
the area to be checked.

“The place is full of
snow,” he said. “There
are so many lakes
besides the ones the ter-
rorists mentioned. You
have to dredge all of
them.” ;

Searchers in green
battle fatigues and
frogmen in black wetsuits
found a few tracks bul
they were unable to
determine when they had
been made or whether
they were made by
people,

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ICE NOT CRACKED

_ Residents of Corvare
said they heard a
helicopter hovering near
the lake early Tuesday,
indicating a body might
have been dropped from
the air. However, the ice
over the lake was not

cracked.

Officials also were
cheeking reports that a
young woman motor:
cyclist stopped in Cor:
varo on Monday asking
directions to the lake, a
trout angler’s paradise
about 100 metres wide
and a one-half kildmetre
long.

The Red Brigades’
announcement that Moro
had been ‘executed’
increased pressure on the
Christian Democratic
government to stiffen the
laws against terrorism.
Some Italians urged the

return of the death
nalty, banned after the
Becon .World War.

A fevhours after the
communique was
retrieved from a Rome
trashean,, the Senate
opened debate on a
government package of
aw-and-order measures.
Approval is certain since
the government drew
them up after con-
sultation with the Com-
munists and other par-
ties.
The measures make
life imprisonment
mandatory for kid-
nappers who kill, permit

osecutors wider use of
information gained by
wiretaps, allow police to
interrogate suspects
without their lawyers and
require all tenants to
register with the police to
make it more difficult for
terrorists to hide out.

Trident arrest

*— The first incidence of
civil disobedience this
year at the Trident
nuclear submarine base
resulted in the arrest
Tuesday of anti-Trident
leader James Douglass.

Douglass, a co-owner of
“Ground Zero Centre for
NonViolent Action’’
adjoining the base, will
be charged with “reentry
onto government

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arred,’’ said a base
public affairs officer. —

Douglass and four
others from the centre
were distributing anti-
Trident leaflets near the
gate Tuesday morning.

He was taken. to
Bremerton city jail for
transfer to Seattle in the

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— Cheering in the streets
of Panama City,
jubilation in the White
House, and relief in the
USS. Senate greeted final
approval of the Panama

canal treaties.
‘But there = were
redictions in
ashington that the con-

troversy and debate will
continue as the House of
Representatives con-
siders legislation to
implement the treaties,
which gradually give

‘Panama control of the

canal during the next 22

years and which
guarantee the water-
way's continued

neutrality thereafter.
Speaking on television,
Gen, Omar Torrijos,
Panama’s chiefof-slate,
said he had been pre-
pared to resort to
violence if the second
treaty had been defeated.
To submit the issue to
new negotiations with the

‘United States, he said,
“would mean shame, the .

negation of sovereignty.”
Torrijos told a news
conference that if the
Senate had not ratified
the treaty, ‘‘we were
going to take the route of
violent liberation.”
ant tommorrow the
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great majority of US.
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But President Carter -

said he is convinced -
Americans eventually —

will accept the treaties as

being in “‘the best interest ~

of our nation.”

’ Panama's citizens

listened to the voting by _

radio, then hundreds of

them flocked to celebrate .
in what one observer .

called “a big drunken
street party.”

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