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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, May 18, 1977

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes May 1977 British prime minister James Cullu Chiin presents police can Stimble Bob who guarded the Premier presentation door of 10 Downing Street for 16 with a a Gill from press photographers on the occasion of mat thews retirement at Mathews said he plans to spend his retirement relax ing in his London suburban a May have caused his Whitlam says probe of Cia in Australia sought Australia Lapi former prune minister Golf in Whitlam called tuesday for a full inquiry into activities i tin Central intelligence Agency in Australia following allegations the Cia May have been behind his ouster 18 months Lender of the australian labor ind a news conference in Adelaide discovery of mummies stumps mexican scientists Mexico Liml one Hundred and fourteen mummies on exp ibo at the Santa Clara Convent Are baffling anthropologists and scientists the corpses were exhumed from a nearby Church cemetery when the families failed to pay for their grave plots when the corpses were dug they were found to be the mummies include the corpses o elderly two frenchmen and a chinese Accord ing to Convent experts have a ten stumped on How the bodies became mummified some say there must be something in the soil that causes that an impartial Royal commission would seem the most sensible approach for any government to sort out these allegations prime minister Malcolm Fraser rejected Williams saying the coun try1 should worry More about the activities of soviet we Are in a defense Alliance with a country with basically the same object and people seem to have a great de Light in saying something that the americans Are doing something tire conservative government chief government sources say Fraser is at tempting to play Down the controversy be cause he does not want it to interfere with his visit to washing twin next taking office in Whitlam was an outspoken critic of the United Stales who withdrew australian forces from Vietnam and established relations with several communist after the conserva Tive majority in tin upper House of Parlia ment blocked adoption of his government governor general sir John Kerr fired him and appointed Fraser despite the constitutional tradition that a governor general should Only do what the govern ment in Power recommends that it kerrs action was later confirmed by a general elect Ion in which the conserva Tives Defeated the labovites allegations of Cia activity in Australia were first raised during the Angeles spy trial of Christopher Boyce last a former clerk for an american de sense testified that he Learned of Cia meddling in australian labor unions later Victor a former executive assistant to the Cia director and author of a Book on the in inter views with australian reporters said the Agency secretly tunnelled Money to austra Lias two conservative Fraser Liberal party and its the National country Marshetti also alleged the Cia violated treaty agreements by withholding from Wiliams labor government information gathered at a secret monitoring station in Central in an interview in London this week with the australian broadcasting former Cia agent Philip Agee said he thought the Agency May have been involved in Whitlam unprecedented Dis it would not be the first instance of a democratic government being undermined by the Agee said peace efforts at stake As israelis vote from press dispatches Tel Aviv israelis voted in a parliamentary election tuesday which could to Termini the Fate of president Carters Middle East peace results of the election were not expected before three hours after polls opened at 7 17 per cent of israels million had cast the election committee election Day in Israel is a Public holi and the 82degree Sunshine promised a heavy Twenty two parties were running in this ninth election in most of them tiny splinters ranging from feminist groups to righting extremists like american born rabbi Cir one of the most interesting phenomenons was the grassroots democratic movement for change a new party which has scored Well in the polls with its promises to clean up Domestic corruption and streamline the 1 voted for the dec because they Are the Only party truly interested in changing the said Eli he reflected the feelings of Many israelis who Are More interested in beating 33percent inflation than the future of captured Arab one outside Clement unabashedly inter Fering in the election was the Palestine liberation which urged israels eligible Arab voters to elect the Moscow backed communist the value of the Black Market Dollar Rose 25 per cent Over the official rate and shoppers bought up stocks of food Staples and heavy appliances in anticipation of devaluation and Steep Price rises after the Premier Yitzhak Rabin briton built a nuclear newspaper reports London i api the daily express re ported tuesday that one of its employees assembled All the pans of an atomic bomb except for the plutonium explosive to demonstrate that terrorists could do the we have designed and built a nuclear using declassified Docu ments and materials which Are freely the newspaper Joseph professor of physics at the University of London who worked on the Hiroshima bomb at los said the daily express had shown him a picture of the device and details of its construction he said he told the paper if i was a member of the government and was shown by a group of terrorists what you have shown i would not like to Gamble with the lives of thousands of i would also be Rotblat said it would be impossible under present conditions Lor terrorists to Hijack a put mum but he said if the British government proceeds with plans to expand the production of nuclear plutonium production will be in creased and Over a period of years it would be possible to pilfer enough plutonium to make a bomb the daily express said one Man built its nuclear device in just Over a month using Ordinary workshop techniques and declassified 30yearold documents from the us the documents included All the Neces sary mathematical equations and Struc Ture it said the bomb was designed to explode with a Force of one to three or i 000 to tons of the paper said it added that it has now destroyed the device Britain has taken a Lead in nuclear fuel which extracts usable uranium and plutonium from nuclear fuel that has already been used orders have come from West Switz Spain and president Carter is campaigning against the production of plutonium by nuclear reprocessing and fast breeder read an official British report by a sir Brian has warned that plans to expand recycling in Britain will make plutonium More widely Avail Able and increase the risk of Britain has 18 nuclear Power stations and five of them do the daily express in its copyrighted article de scribed their operations and theorized How a shipment of explosive material could be  
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