RAWALPINDI: The Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence, Lt-General Ghulam Jilani today [July 17] waived his claim to privilege under the Evidence Act to many portions of intelligence reports already filed before the Supreme Court to bring them on record. He submitted photostat copies of the files with certain portions [excised] about which he asserted his privilege `in the public interest and for the reason of not compromising the sources` of these reports. ... ...[T]he Director-General also produced a file which indicated that large funds were received by a National Awami Party leader in Afghanistan from someone. Answering a question, the witness said although it was reported ... that Mr.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto proposed to hold a meeting of the Executive Committee of the People`s Party in Afghanistan in 1971 ... no such meeting took place, Mr. Bhutto did not visit Kabul that year, he added. News agencies [Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from Houston,]US astronaut Thomas Stafford and Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov ... shook hands 225 kilometres above the earth. Millions of people ... watched the historicevent on television.