CABLED BRIEFS

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30688, 2 March 1965, Page 13

CABLED BRIEFS

SMOKERS trying to break the habit can now telephone to a clinic in Hartford, Connecticut, and hear recorded messages of encouragement. THE AMERICAN Vicepresident, Mr Humphrey, has placed his private holdings of stocks and bonds in a trust fund, to avoid any conflict of interest with his Government duties.

AN INDONESIAN politician, Mr U. P. Kripalani, has been sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment for selling shawls marked “Bintanag (Star) Malaysia.” He was considered to have served Malaysian propaganda.

DR. H. R. BROSE, an Australian Rhodes scholar, believed to be the first man to translate Einstein’s theory of relativity into English, has died in Sydney, aged 74.

THE COUNTRY Party has retained the New South Wales Federal seat of Riverina in a by-election. A WEST Indian named Michael X, heads a militant Negro organisation in Britain soon to be publicly launched. Michael X, who is 32, dropped his surname, de Freitas. In London he directs the Organisation for Afro-Anglo Unity. THE DUKE of Windsor, who had an operation on Friday for detachment of the retina of the left eye, is in satisfactory condition. PRESIDENT Adolf Schaerf, chief architect of Austria’s post-war independence, has died in Vienna, aged 74. THE UNITED Arab Republic h-s closed the Gaza strip on the Israel border to visitors and has mobilised several thousand reserve troops. A SWEDISH 84 mm. antitank weapon has been adopted by the Australian Army. It will replace the 3.5 in rocket

launcher which has been in use since the Korean war. ABOUT 500 people took part in a silent vigil outside the West German Embassy in London yesterday to protest against the proposal to apply the Statute of Limitations to Nazi war criminals. The law nu kes it impossible for people to be charged after 20 years. PRESIDENT Jomo Kenyatta has warned Kenyans against stealing and excessive drinking. In future, thieves will get seven years’ imprisonment and 24 strokes, he says. IN LEIPZIG, East Germany, the Soviet Premier, Mr Kosygin, asked if he was going to London soon, said he was “against tourist trips.” EAST GERMANY claims the West is using strip-teasers to help refugees escape to West Germany. Major Fritz Homann claims girls are taking their clothes off to divert border guards while East Germans escape.