Cable news in brief

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33513, 19 April 1974, Page 11

Cable news in brief

Rails melted

Almost 100 yards of railway track melted when 18 petrol tanker waggons of a goods train jumped the rails near Bielefeld. West Germany. and caught fire. Two hundred firemen extinguished the flames yesterday. No-one was hurt, but a nearby house was damaged — Bielefeld, April 18. Fatal lottery

A sharp increase in the number of heart attacks in Argentina on Sunday afternoons can be directly attributed to the national football lottery, the newspaper “La Razon” has reported. The newspaper said that the normally slack periods at cardiological clinics on Sunday afternoons have become “peak” periods for heart failure since the lottery began two years ago. Final results are announced on Sundav afternoons — Buenos Aires, April 18. Del grade talks Senator Edward Kennedy, on a tour of Communist capitals, met President Tito of Jugoslavia for informal discussions in Belgrade yesterday. The Senator was greeted warmly by a fitlooking President Tito, who is 81—Belgrade. April 18.

32 accused The trials have began in Seoul of 32 persons accused' of spying for North Korea and trying to form a revolu-

’nonary base among intellectuals, Armed Forces officers and politicians. The defendants include four university and high school teachers, two Christian pastors, a former National Assemblyman and three politi-i cal party members — Seoul. April 18. Priests held Two Roman Catholic priests have been arrested in Resistencia. Argentina in 'connection with a terrorist attack on a police station, tn which a policeman and a terrorist were wounded The police say that their investigation of the attack led them to a small truck owned by the priests’ parish. Various weapons were found inside the vehicle, the police said. — Resistencia, April 118. Isylunt granted A member of the Polish delegation to the International Control Commission in Saigon has been granted political asylum in South Vietnam A Government spokesman identified the Pole yesterday as Mr Mikola] Holup. a translator, who had claimed that his life was m 1 danger—Saigon. April 18 1 Japan's economy

Japan is studying the possibility of introducing an incomes policy after the granting of big wage rises to 'Japanese workers this tear, according to the head of the Economic Planning

Agents Mr 1 suneo Uch:da the agency's director, -a'. - that he has instructed minis try officials to look into the idea of an incomes policy in the light of recent wag* agreements and prospects of (higher electricity and other public service charges I ast week transport workers von pay rises of up to 31 per cent after an 88-hour walk out. — Tokyo April 17. Pope's health Pope Paul, who i« 76 < ur tailed his normal procedure at his weekly general audi ence in the Vatican vestei day. apparently following doctors' advice not to over strain himself after a recent bout of influenza The Pope who had influenza early last month and suffered a slight relapse three weeks ago. can celled two traditional Eastet ceremonies last week. But he showed no signs of weakness during the rest of his taxing Easter schedule—Vatin-., i City, April 18 Obituary Major-General Alex Saburov, a Soviet secu > police chief who began his career ai the height of the Stalin purges in the late 19305. ha- died Kremlin leaders issued a glowing obituary of the officer, who was 65. According to an

official obituars published today. Saburov first entered the ranks of the security police in 1938. the year of the last three show trial* against former aides of Stalin —Moscow, April 18.