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Show World News Briefs MOSCOW (AP) The Russians lifted the wraps Tuesday from their first capitalist-style enterprise enter-prise the Bolshevichka textile plant. It seems to be doing all right. In a radical experiment, the Soviet government turned over the operation last summer to a general director, Pyotr K. Nos-kov, Nos-kov, and directed him to make a profit. Noskov told a group of foreign for-eign correspondents he guided through the men's suit plant Tuesday that at first he made less than before, but has since improved. JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) Indonesian officials closed down the activities of the U.S. Information In-formation Service Wednesday in Surabaja, capital of East Java, saying there was danger of more anti-American violence. PITTSBURGH (AP) Someone stole a Soviet flag flying over the city's .Civic Arena Tuesday. The Russians are putting on a health exhibit there. RAUMO, Finland (AP) Twenty-six schoolgirls and three soldiers drawned Tuesday night when a military motorboat taking tak-ing them to a dance collided with a tug and sank. MOSCOW (AP) The lowly onion has become a shortage item in the Soviet Union, a Soviet So-viet farm economist complained today. The lament came from Y. Pal-ladin, Pal-ladin, an agronomist-economist, writing in the newspaper Soviet Russia. Palladin said Soviet farmers have quit raising onions because it is unprofitable. About 75 per cent of the nation's onions are now being raised on private plots, he added. KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) A student was killed and three others oth-ers were injured Tuesday night when police fired on a crowd demonstrating against the arrest of student leaders. WASHINGTON (AP) Regular trans-Atlantic telephone communications commu-nications via a satellite may start between Europe and North America as early as next May. The Communications Satellite Corps. COMSAT said in a statement filed Tuesday with the Federal Communications Commission Com-mission that its first satellite, known as the Early Bird, will be launched in March. |