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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 06, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday september 6,1977 Rhodesia is holding . Nun Salisbury Rhodesia a an american born Catholic nun who was As signed Here three months ago has been detained by police and is to appear in court in due course on Security charges authorities confirmed Here monday. Sister Janice Mclaughlin press Secre tary with the Catholic Justice and peace commission which acts As a watchdog body on human rights was arrested by police last week. She was detained after criminal investigation department Cid police swooped Down on the offices and Homes of three senior officials of the commission. The three Are on $1,600 bail each await ing trial sept. 30 for charges under the sweeping Law and order maintenance act and the official secrets act. Police said monday sister Janice who previously worked seven years with the Church in Kenya would also be charged under the Law and order act. They would not specify which charges. Police confirmed Catholic Church claims that she was still being detained monday. The three commission officials awaiting trial Are chairman John Deary organizing Secretary brother Arthur Dupuis from Montreal and executive member father Bernd Dieter Scholz from West Berlin. Prosecutor Amos Chirwa seeking continued detention for the three accused when they appeared chiefly in the Magis trates court Here last thursday said documents were found in their Homes and offices. The documents were confidential and classified he said. Officials of the Justice and peace com Mission have in the past three years published two comprehensive dossiers detailing allegations of atrocities by Secu Rity forces against Black civilians. The grand canal of Venice is crowded with gondolas during the annual Gondo end of the season la regatta marking the end of the tourist season. In the foreground is the 18 oar by Sintore carrying local official Sand dignitaries. A photo Syria food imports banned two cholera cases reported in Lebanon police seize books film in British porno raids Beirut up Lebanon monday re ported two minor cases of cholera and banned import of vegetables and other food product from neighbouring Syria where an outbreak of the disease has killed at least 46 persons. The health ministry said the two persons were being treated at Beirut s american University Hospital and had arrived in Lebanon from  the ministry did not say where they had come from. The ministry called on lebanese to observe strict health and sanitation precautions in a bid to keep the disease from spreading. Lebanon is the third Arab country to report cholera since the outbreak of the disease in Syria several weeks ago Jordan sunday reported 21 minor and curable cases and Kuwait has reported a single Case. Jordan also bordering Syria has offered to coordinate health ministry facilities with Syria in order to control the cholera outbreak. Syria which has reported Well Over 1,000 cases of the disease in Damascus and the major Urban regions of Aleppo and Lata Kia has clamped a series of tight Sanita Tion and health regulations on the local population. London a police seized thou Sands of pornographic books and movies featuring Young children in raids in London and other cities Over the weekend Scotland Yard said monday. The swoops came amid a controversy about paedophilia sexual attraction to children triggered by a Campaign to legalize sex with children and the trial of a 26-year-old woman schoolteacher accused of seducing an 11-year-old boy. The controversy mushroomed As a 13 Man committee set up by Home Secretary Merlyn Rees began a major review of obscenity Laws in a bid to define them More clearly. At the same time the conservative daily Telegraph is waging an anti porn Campaign and claims Britain along with no Bare arms saudi tells women Riyadh a foreign women living in saudi Arabia will have to dress Accord ing to islamic teachings or they will face unspecified punishment King Khaled of saudi Arabia warned  Monarch also cautioned in a radio statement that hippie types will not be tolerated in the kingdom and will be arrested and imprisoned for disrespecting  King s statement was addressed to All foreigners in the Oil Rich kingdom Aswell As to saudis. One of the country s big foreign communities is made up of 30,000 americans working for the arabian american Oil company known As Aramco or engaged by . Contractors operating in the King Dom. We have instructed men of the advocacy of virtue and dissuasion of vice society to cooperate with Security officials i eradicating every vile phenomenon of de unto islam and females should Cove when they go shopping the King said. Saudi youths also were urged to shun those imported ways which to say the least contradict the rules of Good manner Sand manliness he said. In an apparent reference to the under ground wealth which brings saudi Arabia Over $40 billion in annual income from Oil the United states is being flooded with smuggled pornography from Europe in a Multi million Dollar  arrests were reported in the weekend raids. The mass circulation daily Mirror however said the seized material was Worth 200,000 pounds $350,000 the Yard reported officers from the obscene publications squad seized a big Haulin one West London porn shop. More mate rial was grabbed in a London  Mirror said the raids were launched in London Birmingham and Northern cities after the paper handed Over the re sults of its own investigation into child  paper quoted a senior Birmingham police officer As saying we be seize books Worth 100,000 pounds and Hope we be uncovered a massive conspiracy which will help Stop this  the simmering child sex storm blew up aug. 24 when a London hotel barred a group called the paedophile information Exchange that had booked a conference room to hold a Public meeting to promote its Campaign to legalize child sex. Legislators and several organization condemned the group and its Aims follow ing the hotel Row. Police investigated the group but said they found no grounds for charges. The Issue was stoked up last wee during the four Day trial of mrs. Sandra Mayhew who teaches in a school in Sussex county South of London. Teachings and obeying his commands. News  
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