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Indian plane crash claims 77 victims
An Indian air force transport plane crashed while approaching Leh airport, north India, killing all 77 servicemen aboard and a civilian on the ground.
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The Soviet-built Antonov-12, on a routine flight from Chandigarh, developed engine trouble shortly before landing at Leh, located near India's border with China. The Defence Ministry said an inquiry has been ordered to probe the mishap at Leh airport, one of the world's highest operational air facilities at 10,682 feet above sea level.
UFO committee
Kuwait’s Council of Ministers has decided to set up a committee to investigate recent reports of unidentified flying objects over the Gulf state.
The most recent of several reported UFO sightings was that by a seven-man repair crew at an oil field near Umm Al-Aish. The crew members said the UFO, which had "a cylindrical body much resembling a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, with a red dome," landed and stayed on the ground for seven minutes before taking off silently.
Protestors pelt Begin with eggs
Angry Jewish settlers pelted Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin's car with rocks and eggs as he arrived to tell a political meeting that Israel could not accept inclusion of timetables for solving the Palestinian question in a peace treaty with Egypt.
A spokesman for the Prime Minister said Begin was hit on the left shoulder by an egg as he went into the building where his political movement was meeting. Several hundred right-wing demonstrators also threw stones and eggs at Defence Minister Ezer Weizman's car when he arrived.
Bhutto demands elections
Nusrat Bhutto has asked the government to hold parliamentary elections. This was her first statement after court-ordered release from house arrest in Islamabad. The government had ordered her detention to restrain her from taking part in political activities, banned throughout Pakistan for the last 14 months under martial law.
Bhutto told reporters: "If the government agrees to early elections, it can help solve many problems which Pakistan is currently facing in the political and economic fields.
Play lets Sharjah Singers down
The first joint venture between the Dubai Theatre Group and the Dubai and Sharjah Singers might have had a greater degree of success had the choice of play for the first part of the evening been a more entertaining one.
The story of a wife who finds she does not really know her husband as well as she thinks she does, "Dark Brown," directed by Trish Hopkins, simply did not provide enough dramatic contrast to the fun and gaiety of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta "Trial by Jury" which followed.
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Record-breaking Ricardo storms home at Macao
Italy’s Ricardo Patrese, setting a sizzling pace from the 13th lap, won the Macao Grand Prix for the second consecutive time, driving his Chevron B42 to a record of 33.34 miles an hour.
But the 24-year-old Patrese, a political science student at the University of Padua, almost had the limelight stolen by two newcomers, Derek Daly of Ireland, who came second, and Kevin Cogan of the United States.
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