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By United Press International
Pope Paul to visit Geneva
VATICAN CITY—Pope Paul VI will fly to Geneva in June to visit the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the International Labor Organization (ILO), a journey to the home of Protestant Calvanism that he described as "a sign of the times."
In announcing his seventh trip abroad during the weekly audience at St. Peter's Basilica, the Pope made no specific mention of his visit to the WCC. But officials of the Protestant-dominated
organization said in Geneva they had received Vatican confirmation of the papal visit yesterday morning by telephone.
The pontiff will make the one-day journey either June 9 or 10, sources said in Geneva.
The ILO, a world labor body that promotes better working conditions and social justice through the United Nations, will celebrate its 50th anniversary during the first weeks of June. The WCC is an organization of 234 Protestant and Orthodox churches.
The Pope's announcement of the trip came unexpectedly at the end of his speech at the weekly audience.
"There is a sign of the times," he said. "We have received an official invitation to go to Geneva and take part in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the International Labor Organization. . . .
"To this invitation, so unexpected and so honorable, corresponding as it does to our
feelings of esteem for this well-deserving and highly representative international organization, and according so closely with our mission of justice, peace and brotherhood, we have, with humble gratitude,
decided to reply in the affirmative."
There was no explanation from the Vatican of why the Pope omitted to mention the visit to the World Council of Churches.
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Wilson tries to push labor legislation to curb dangerous wildcat strikes
LONDON Britain's Labor government has announced legislation to curb wildcat strikes that are slowing the country's economy.
Government sources said Prime Minister Harold Wilson hopes to push the legislation through Parliament before its
summer recess. To provide the necessary parliamentary time, he was reported ready to abandon a bill to reform the House of Lords which has become bogged down in House of Commons committee debate.
Announcing the planned new strike-curbing legislation, Mrs.
French shopkeepers strike against taxes
PARIS A strike of shopkeepers and small businessmen closed cafes, restaurants and shops throughout France yesterday in protest against heavy taxes and social security charges. Bomb explosions damaged two tax offices and police broke up one demonstration with tear gas.
President Charles de Gaulle's government, meeting in Cabinet session, ignored the businessmen's demands for tax and social security reforms that would lighten what they
Strong support was reported for the strike among merchants across the nation, who shuttered their grocery stores, tobacco shops, cafes, most restaurants, other shops and nearly all small businesses in the country. Some butchers, bakers and grocery stores remained open for a few hours in the morning to avoid hardships for housewives.
denounced as "excessive"
financial burdens on them.
Plastic bombs blew out the windows of two tax offices in Brittany, but no one was reported injured.
- Government powers to order a 28-day cooling off period in wildcat walkouts.
Barbara Castle, minister for employment and productivity, told the Commons its main provision would include:
Aquanauts undergo intense examinations
ST. JOHN, Virgin Islands Four U.S. scientist aquanauts acclaimed as heroes of inner space for having lived 60 days 50 feet beneath the water have undergone medical debriefing here.
From the point of view of the four men—Richard A. Waller, 34, of Oxon Hill, Md.; H. Edward Clifton, 34, of Los Altos, Calif., Conrad V. W. Mahnken, 31, of Bainbridge Island, Wash., and John G. van Derwalker, 32, of Lynwood, Wash—the worst isn't over yet.
The men emerged from a decompression chamber Tuesday night 20 hours after ending their underwater life, double the record for time lived beneath the sea. President Nixon cabled them his congratulations and
The men said, just before they went to the bottom of Great Lameshurt Bay Feb. 15, after the physical examinations they endured before the mission, the mission itself would be child's play. Doctors went at them again yesterday for two full days of tests.
The four men spent several hours with their wives and families and then went into the hands of a team of U.S. Navy doctors and psychologists at the base camp in Virgin Islands National Park.
During their 60 days under water every move they made and every word they spoke was monitored from the surface as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration sought to learn how men react to such isolated conditions.
Their breathing, blood, eyes,
ears, skin, brain waves, nerves,
lungs and behavior will be
checked for the next 48 hours.
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called them heroes of inner space, "pioneers."
- Fines but not jail sentences, for either workers or employers defying the cooling off order.
KINSHASA, Congo - A Congolese air force C46 transport crashed into the Congo River near Kinshasa's Ndjili Airport yesterday, and officials said all 45 persons aboard were killed.
Congolese transport crashes into river
Wreckage rested on a sand bank about one mile from the south bank of the river
- Statutory right of every worker to join a trade union.
Inter-union disputes that could lead to strikes to be submitted first to the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and then to the government's newly created Industrial Relations Board for settlement.
Mrs. Castle emphasized there would be no question of jailing workers or employers defying a 28-day cooling off period order and that fines imposed would not constitute punishment for a criminal act.
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