ANDORRA: No Admittance

The hoary, leather-faced council members and First Syndic (president) of the tiny 190-sq. mi. territory of Andorra, the world's oldest republic, which nestles atop the Pyrenees between Spain and France, gathered in solemn conclave last week to decide whether to admit to their country a tough-mugged gentleman who styled himself Alex Abraham Sikorski, alias "Kid Tiger," onetime trigger man for Gangster Al Capone.

Meantime, at the French border village of Bourg-Madame, Mr. Sikorski was putting on a good show:

He offered to build Andorra a modern sanatorium for the 5,000 inhabitants.

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