WORLD NWS IN BRIEF
TRIVANDRUM, INDIA, Police fired last Monday on Anti-red demonstrators trying to pre
vent schools f rom opening in a massive protest against the education reform schools
sponsored by the Communist government of Kerala State. ..
Five persons here reported shot and killed and at least 17 injured in fights be
tween police and pickets at two schools in the Trivumdrum area, bringing to 10 the
death toll in clashes between police and anti-reds in this Southernmost India state
in the last three days. Scores have been injured.
HaVaNA—Prime Minister Fidel Castro’s July 26 revolutionary movement warned the U. S
Monday that the Cuban government would tolerate no. interference in Cuba’s internal
affairs.
In reference to a United States note delivered to the Havana government last week
expressing concern over the revolutionary government’s agrarian reform program the
provincial directorate of the July 16 movement/said in a statement;
riNc Foreign embassy can make us deviate one iota from our objectives*”,
HOLLYWOOD, Actor George Reeves, TV's "Superman" fatally shot himself in the head
last week with a German Luger pistol in a suicide which police said was predicted by
the ‘‘woman's intuition" of his fiancee*
police found the naked body of the 45-year-old actor*sprawled on the, biocd spat
tered bed of his Benedict canyon home in Beverly Hills.
The bullet entered the right-side of the husky actor’s head, emerged through his
left temple and imbedded itself in a walli’ ■*
*GrENEViV*—Soviet foreign''minister Andrei A; Gromyko Wednesday . agreed to consider the
Vest ’ s" rock-bottom Berlin peace plan that would ban nuclear', weapons in West Berlin
and allow East German Communists a voice in controlling traffic tc the city,
Gromyko’s promise of a "further reply" Thursday to the 600-word plan hastily drawn
up'last week was enough to save the six-week-old big four foreign ministers confer
ence from breaking up in total deadlock, ' ,
U»S* Secretary of State Christian A. barter and his British and French 'Colleagues
designed'the brief package as a meanfe'of getting a flat answer from the stalling Sov
iets on whether there was.any point tc further negotiations.
fflf YORK, American television viewers saw a hazy but easily recognizable image of
dueen Elizabeth II boarding a plane at London airport Friday only two hours and 21
minutes after the actual event.
A one-minute film of the departure of the Queen and Prince Philip for Canada and
the U. $. was transmitted from London to Montreal over the trans-Atlantic telephone
cable and then fed by the Canadian broadcasting company to the National broadcasting
company in Neto York for viewing over NBC’s entire 200-station network,
'.' The,image' received in America was distorted occasi* nally by flashes of light due
'to electrical interference on the ' Trans-Atlantic cable, but was satisfactory enough
for those involved to claim a new milestone in TV transmission.' . ’ '
MANAGUA, NICARAGUA—A fighting force of 6,000 men was readied Thursday to fight off
invaders poised near Nicaragua's northern and Southern borders,"
* - Terrorist bomb attacks ^t the homes of a cabinet minister nndirh, the editor of a
government-owned newspaper, meanwhile, kept tension high in this capital city,
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