NEWS OF THE WEEK

MAY 17-23, 1971 >>FROM THE ARCHIVES OF THE HINDUSTAN TIMES

THREE KILLED AS STORM HITS DELHI

MAY 17:

Three labourers were killed and ten others were moved to hospital when part of a building under construction collapsed at Badarpur. It is feared that five more might have been crashed to death.

SOVIET-U.S. ACCORD ON ABM TALKS

MAY 21:

United States President Richard Nixon today announced a major agreement with the Soviet Union to undertake the negotiation of an agreement to limit deployment of antiballistic missiles.