Cable news reported briefly

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33370, 31 October 1973, Page 17

Cable news reported briefly

Dan on politician ! The President of the Nata Indian Congress (Mr Chan 'iderdeo Sewpersadh) has beer ” banned from attending socia sor political gatherings fol jfive years. Mr Sewpersadh ) aged 38. a lawyer, is the gj third member of the Gandhi . style organisation to be sc e ( banned. The order, served be ,J security policemen under the . iSuppression of Communisn ; (Act, also bars Mr Sewpersadh j ( from attending any gatherling of pupils or students. He f|is the fifty-sixth person to be t ( banned under the act this .(year. No reason has been j given.—Durban, Oct. 30. ‘Chile shootings e Two men were shot dead when they tried to escape 5 1 while being questioned by a i (military patrol in southern ; (Chile yesterday, according tc s la communique from Lieuten-liant-Colonel Luis Vega, mili--Itary commander of the south- - ern province of Malleco. He t;describes the men as Left- - wing extremists, and says -(that they were shot when j!they tried to break away s from soldiers guarding them -Iduring questioning in the city flof Victoria. — Santiago, Oct. 1(30. si Riot in South Africa I Two Africans were killed (and a house was burned (down when 80 African munii cipal workers from the Transkei clashed in a riot at a (municipal labour camp in the I picturesque garden town of (George, 200 miles west of Port Elizabeth. Police reinforcements and dogs were (called in from neighbouring towns to help to quell the (riot. Forty Africans were (arrested, and four were taken |to hospital. At one stage of the riot, 80 Africans wielding ! axes, kirries (clubs), and ' knives were involved in a battle over illicit liquor.— . Debts cancelled Czechoslovakia has followed other East European countries in cancelling debts owed by North Vietnam for : aid given in the Vietnam ■ war.—Prague, October 30.

'Skylab count-down al The long count-down has n- begun for the Saturn IB ■n rocket and Apollo spaceship al that will take the third team >r of astronauts to the Skylab h. space station on Nor ember je 11. The count-down will conij. tinue until a practice lift-off , 0 on Saturday, when prepara)vtions will be made for the final stage next week. The n J Sky lab 3 astronauts. Lieuten11, ant-Colonel Gerald Carr. Lieutenant-Colonel William Pogue, and Dr Edward Gib:„son. hope to remain in orbit for a record 85 days. They “ will do medical. Earth resources, and solar experiments. and make extensive observations of the comet Kohoutek as it swings around the Sun late in December. — '“'Cape Canaveral. October 29. >ei a it Kis/fy acquisition v The New York police are i_ i looking for a thief who stole ..la bag of walnuts, if only to e jsave his life. The nuts, taken t. from a station waggon be•s.longing to a pest-extermm plating firm, are covered with v “enough zinc phosphate to j, kill an army,” and were .. meant for the extermination £ jof tats and squirrels.—New ’ York, October 30. Case dismissed .. • d| A South African motorist d caught in a police radar trap ’■itold the court that he mar’■jketed radar devices, and a I demonstrated that they could e !err: he showed the police '‘.machine “booking” a worklf Iman’s pick striking the '■ I ground. with no vehicle in e sight, and he was acquitted S'—Vredefort, Oct. 30. e n j... case not proven lf l A man accused of being 5 the driver of a getaway car “lin a robbery was freed in _ I London yesterday because the "(police were unable to dis- | prove his claim that he could I not drive. An Appeals Court .(quashed the prison sentence n|on Henry Francis, in spite of s.the testimony of six witnesr'ses who identified him as the a driver of a getaway car.— (London. Oct. 30.