CABLED BRIEFS

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32461, 23 November 1970, Page 15

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Nixon's choice President Nixon is reported to have chosen his domestic affairs counsellor, Mr Daniel Moynihan, as United States Ambassador to the United Nations, to succeed Mr Charles Yost, whom Mr Nixon appointed at the beginning of his Administration <22 months ago. Mr Moynihan, a Democrat, was formerly an urban affairs specialist at Harvard University.—Washington, Nov. Paris blasts Two explosions wrecked some flats and injured 20 people in Paris yesterday. The first blast, from a bottle of gas exploding in a cellar, injured one man slightly, but a few minutes later another, much more powerful, explosion ripped through the cellars' as the burning gas ignited volatile material, a staircase to the first floor was brought crashing down, ground floor flats were wrecked, and 19 other people were hurt.—Paris, Nov. 22. Agnew surprise Mr Agnew, who had introduced himself to a journalists’ conference in Honolulu yesterday as "America’s greatest menace to the free press, in the eyes of your profession,” surprised his audience by declaring: "I have not the least doubt that the United States has the most self-demanding, least self-satisfied, most ingenious, least inhibited, best informed, least controlled, most professional, least subjective, most competitive, least partyline, fairest and finest journalistic complex in the entire world.” In May, Mr Agnew described liberal members of the American news media as “self-righteous, self-appointed guardians of destiny who would like to run the country without ever submitting to the elective process, as we in public office must do.” Mayfair raid A gang of eight men, all wearing hoods and wielding pickaxe handles, snatched £20,000 worth of jewels from a shop in the Mayfair district of London yesterday. They sealed off the street with a stolen 70-seater coach to make their raid, and escaped in a van and car with rings, watches and necklaces. The owner of the shop and his two assistants were treated in hospital for injuries.—London, Nov. 22. Students drenched

Firemen directed waterhoses at about 1000 Ohio State University students yesterday, when an impromptu football rally developed into fighting and window-breaking. The police made several arrests.—Columbus, Nov. 22. Scientist dead Sir Venkata Raman, the famous Indian scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, has died in Bangalore, aged 82. He won the Nobel Prize in 1930 for his research into the scattering of light rays, a phenomenon now known as “the Raman effect.” —Bangalore, November 22. 'Playboy' in braille A braille edition of the written material in the men’s magazine, “Playboy,” is being offered by the Michigan state library in its services to the blind and physically handicapped. The move was authorised by the Library of Congress.—Lansing, Michigan, November 22.