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Care in out-patient depts called 2d-rate by some health experts; increasing load and poor services cited; attitude of drs decried
Ital Cath Action starts 'Crusade of the Great Return' to convert atheists and bring nominal Caths back to ch; L Gedda heads drive; method outlined
Brown, T: trapped in elevator 23 hrs, NYC
Sec Sawyer says price declines acct for natl income drop of less than 2%, '49; figures
Xmas broadcast to Commonwealth
1949José Ramos-Horta, East Timorese lawyer and politician, 2nd President of East Timor, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
José Manuel Ramos-Horta GCL GColIH is an East Timorese politician. He has been the president of East Timor since 2022, having previously also held the position from 20 May 2007 to 20 May 2012. Previously he was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2002 to 2006 and Prime Minister from 2006 to 2007. He was a co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, along with Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, for working "towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor".