The Judge of the Supreme Court will be the Chairman of the Board and will have a greater say in case of difference of opinion between the two members. Moreover, under the new Act he added, the detenus would be allowed to appear in person before the board to plead their case, a privilege which the prisoner was not entitled to when the Security Act of Pakistan was passed by Parliament in 1957 under the leadership of Mr H.S. Suhrawardy, who was then the Prime Minister of Pakistan.

The minister claimed that his Government during the brief spell of one month in which it had been in power has solved some problems agitating the minds of the people “although not to the full extent.”

In this connection, he named the Political Bill and the amended Preventive Detention Act which gave certain advantages to the detenus denied earlier.

When asked whether his experience had made it worthwhile to join the government, Mr Wahiduzzaman said, “I have found the president most accommodative.” — Agencies

US pilot reaches space in plane EDWARD AIRBASE (California): Major Robert White, piloting an X-15 rocket plane, yesterday climbed to 58 miles in space, thus becoming the first astronaut to reach space in a plane. Major White was in a state of weightlessness for three minutes at the peak of his ascending trajectory after the plane escaped the Earth’s attraction.

After that, the plane shot earthwards again, tail first through the densest layers of the atmosphere at an angle of 23 degrees from the horizon. In other words, the tail of the plane entered the atmosphere first, while the aircraft’s needle sharp nose pointed up at the angle of 23 degrees, in order to reduce the heat caused by friction. — Agencies