ISLAMABAD: President Fazal Elahi Chaudhry drove to the Chinese Embassy here today [Sept 10] to sign the condolence book on the demise of Chairman Mao Tsetung, writing that ... ‘we cannot forget’ the special affection the departed Chinese leader had for Pal(istan and its people.
Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ... wrote in the condolence bool(... that Chairman Mao Tsetung always held the welfare and progress of the people of Pakistan close to his heart.
His contribution to ... Sino-Pakistan friendship will always remain enshrined in our memories. News agencies [Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from Belgrade,] ... 176 people were 1(illed today [Sept 10] when a chartered Yugoslav DC-9 airliner and a British Airways Trident collided at 3,000 feet ... over the ... Yugoslav town of Verbovec, and plunged to earth.
Town residents told the first rescue teams that debris rained across several miles of fields after a huge explosion.