King Hussein to visit US:

King hu^ will visit Washington in the second half of June, said Information Minister Jawad Anant on Monday following a Cabinet session Xinhua reports from Amman

During his coming visit to Washington. King Hussein is ex ploted to have a medical check up and hold talks with US President Bill Clinton and other senior officials on the latest development in the Middle East including the peace process and bilateral ties. Anani said

Meanwhile, the informalion minister told a press confer ence that the Jordanian and Israel negotiators will hold unof ficlal talks Monday on border demarcation and water resources. _,

Architect Burle Marx dies: Internationally recognised landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx died Saturday of earner In Rio De Janeiro. Globo Television reported He was 34 Reuter says from Brasilia

Burle Marx, during a 60 year career designed 1.500 pub lie gardens and parks tn more than 20 countries around the world. He was designing, at the time of his death, a park for the Malaysian government. Globo Said.

The son of a German immigrant, he designed gardens and parks in Brasilia. Sao Paulo and at Rio De Janeiro's famed Copa Cabana Beach

Truck mishap claims 25 in Peru: At least 25 passengers were killed and five others wounded when a pickup truck fell off a cliff in the sacred valley of the Incas on Friday, police sources said. Xinhua reports from Lome.

The sources said that the pickup flipped over and rolled 300 metres down an embankment between the peasant communities of Idello Quello and Maska Friday afternoon

According to initial investigations, more than 30 passengers were travelling abroad the vehicle from the district of Pisac to the community of Cuyo Grande tn the sacred Valley of the Incas.

Republican nominates North: i™ contra scandal figure Oliver North won the Republican nomination for the US Senate Saturday at a convention of Virginia Republicans defeating former US Budget director James Miller.

North will run in the November 8 election for the seat now held by democratic Senator Charles Robb, who is expected to win renomination against lesser known challengers in a Democratic primary on June 14.

8 Palestinians held in Gaza:

Israeli soldiers arrested eight Palestinians on Saturday near the Jewish settlement of Netzarim in the autonomous Gaza Strip. Palestinian sources said. AFP reports from Gaza City.

Seven of the eight arrested after a Stone throwing Incident were released after Palestinian police intervened, the sources said.

But the Palestinian authority's Justice Minister Freih Abu Middein condemned the army for detaining the eighth man. Mlddeln said: They do not have the right to arrest anyone in this enclaye and they should hand back the prisoner.'