Cable news in brief

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33381, 13 November 1973, Page 17

Cable news in brief

A’ew ambassador Mr Hermann Eilts has arrived in Cairo to become the I first United States Ambassador to Egypt since June, 1967, when Cairo broke relatio n s with Washington.—Cairo, November 12. Nepal's contribution Nepal will send a contingent of between 400 and 500’ troops to join the United | Nations’ peace-keeping force: in the Middle East. A For-? eign Office announcement 1 last night said that the For- ! eign Secretary (Major-Gener-al Adrna Bahadur Khartri)i had left for New York to work out details of Nepalese! participation in the force. — Katmandu, November 11. Valery Panov The Jewish Russian ballet dancer, Valery Panov, has decided to continue his hunger strike, now in its eleventh day, until he and his wife obtain visas to emigrate to Israel, in spite of “encouraging signs” from the authorities in Leningrad.! Mr Panov’s wife, Galina, told reporters in Moscow by telephone that officials at the visa office in Leningrad had accepted their emigration application papers, but she said that her husband, a former leading dancer with the Leningrad Kirov Ballet, would not end his protest until the two of them had received permission to leave. He was not feeling too well, she added.—Moscow, November 12. U.S.-Soviet talks Mr Henry Turner, the United States Assistant Secretary of Commerce, has arrived in Moscow with a group of leading American businessmen for trade talks.—Moscow, November 12. Bus blaze Ten passengers were burned to death yesterday when a petrol tank in a bus caught fire and exploded near the central Tanzanian town of Singida. Ten other passengers were taken to hospital with serious burns.—Nairobi, November 12. Obituary Professor Artturi Virtanen, of Finland, winner of the 1945 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, has died in Helsinki, aged 78. Professor Virtanen was awarded the prize for his work on the preservation of fodder crops.—Helsinki, November 12.

\Cholera in Bahrain .. [ Twenty-six cases of I cholera have been confirmed? in Bahrain since the disease! • was first reported last■ month, the Minister of .Health (Dr Axi Fakhroo) re-| [ports, adding that so far noone has died.—Bahrain, No-| [vember 12. .. and in Indonesia | One hundred and twenty [seven people died from! [cholera in Djakarta and its? i surrounding areas during the [first 10 months of this year,} a Djakarta Health Service! spokesman reports. In all, [ i 1538 cases were registered. —Djakarta, November [ |l2. I More against Agnew

Moves towards the disbarment of the former United States Vice-President, Mr Spiro Agnew, have been begun by the Maryland State Bar Association and the Montgomery County Bar Association, with the aim of stripping him of his right to practice law, on the ground that he is a convicted felon.—Washington, November 12. Visit to China King Birendra of Nepal, accompanied by Queen Aiswarya, will pay a one-week State visit to China from December 7. The Foreign Minister (Mr Gyanendra Bahadur Karki) will accompany the Royal party.—Katmandu, November 12. Thai tragedy A bus carrying 60 Thai construction workers hit a rock and plunged off a mountain road in northern Thailand yesterday, killing 11 of them and injuring 18.—Bangkok, November 12.

Painting recovered The Uruguayan police have [recovered a painting by the [fifteenth-century Italian art- ! ist, Filippo Lippi, which had been stolen five years ago i and was then estimated to be worth $40,000. "The Virgin in the Arms of Saint [Anne” was stolen with 16 other canvases, including i works by Renoir, Utrillo, [and Brughel. from the Montevideo home of the i Uruguayan collector, Mr Eduardo Mailhos. — Montevideo, November 12. Earth's shape [ The Earth is even more pear-shaped than hitherto , supposed, according to two [British scientists, Drs D. G. ;King-Hele and G. E. Cook, of the Royal Aircraft Estab- | lishment at Farnborough, who say in a letter to the [magazine, “Nature,” that [their latest analysis of the orbits of 27 satellites show i that .he globe is squashed in at the South Pole and has | grown a distinct "stalk” at the North Pole.—London, November 12. Students’ plight Allegations that some stuI dents in Manila are living in sub-human conditions have moved the Government to investigate boarding-houses ■and other rented accommodation to ensure that they comply with the law. In the meantime. It insists that students have access to study rooms, good lighting, fire [alarms and extinguishers, i first-aid kits, baths, and toilets.—Manila, November 12. Indonesia's oil The two newly-built oilfields in East Borneo artproducing about 100,000 bar rels a day, the news agency, Antara reports. The Attaka and Tanjung Santan fields, which were inaugurated by President Suharto early this year, are jointly run by the Indonesian Pertamina Oil Company and the American Union oil firm.—Djakarta. November 12. Pipeline explodes Seven people were killed and four were injured yesterday when a welding spark caused an explosion and fire in an oil pipeline at Par-Siah, near Eizeh, 362 miles south-west of Teheran, a National Iranian Oil Company spokesman hat [confirmed. The explosion occurred while workers were trying to replace an old oil pipeline. The fire was quickly controlled.—Teheran, November 12. Rescue at sea Ten Japanese fishermen, spotted by a search aircraft, were rescued by a Liberian freighter yesterday as they were drifting in a life-boat in the Pacific off Okinawa, their vessel, the 48-ton Shoei Maru, having sunk after catching fire. The freighter that rescued them, the 2824 ton Leneverett, of the Ever ett-Orient Line, is due in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, tomorrow.—Tokyo, November 12. New satellite The Soviet Union has announced the launching of Cosmos 607, the latest in her top-secret series of unmanned space vehicles. It has gone into an orbit with a high point of 2271 miles, a low point of 121 J miles, and a 90-minute period of revolution around the Earth. The angle of inclination of th< orbit is 72.9 de grees.—Moscow, Novembe 12.