CABLE ITEMS IN BRIEF

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33628, 2 September 1974, Page 13

CABLE ITEMS IN BRIEF

Australian lament At least 20 per cent of Australian teen-agers leaving school are “functionally illiterate, having the reading ability of nine-year-olds,” according to a survey by S.P.E.L.D. an organisation which studies learning difficulties among children. It has submitted the results of its studies to a committee reviewing the New South Wales Child Welfare Act. — Sydney, September 1. Woman deported A Japanese woman, Mariko Yamamoto, aged 34, has been expelled from France after an investigation of the activities in Europe of the extremist Japanese Red Army movement. Yamamoto is said to have been a Paris contact for the young Japanese man who was arrested last month and is suspected of involvement in the raid on a Singapore oil refiijpry. — Paris, September

Champion ploughman

Carl-Johan Holmstroem, of Finland, won the 1974 world ploughing championships at Helsinki yesterday, finishing the two-day competition with a total of 259 points, well clear of Carl Timbers, of Canada, and John Tracy, of Northern Ireland, who tied for second place. David Griffiths, of Kenya, who was in second position behind Holmstroem after yesterday’s stubble-ploughing event, ’ took fourth placing over all, which he shared with another Finn, Guy Sundbaeck.—Helsinki, September 1. , Penalty increased Shoplifters in New South Wales, where stores lose an estimated $A3Om worth of goods a year, now face a fine of up to SAIOOO — 10 times the previous maximum penalty — and 12 months imprisonment, under new state legislation — Sydney, September 1 z

Cholera in Portugal The health authorities have reported another 167 cholera cases in Portugal in the last week, bringing to 1394 the total since the outbreak began. Four more people have died, bringing the official death toll to 28. —- Lisbon, September 1. Painter dead

Michael Kashalos, a wellknown Greek-Cypriot “primitive” painter, has died in hospital, at the age of 89, after being beaten un two weeks ago by Turkish troops, Radio Cyprus reports. A shoemaker in the village of Asha, south-east of Nicosia, Mr Kashalos retired at the age of 60 and took up painting. He exhibited abroad, won first prize at the 1972 Bratislava Exhibition, and at the time of the Turkish invasion he was preparing for an exhibition of his work in New York. — Nicosia, September 1.

Farnborough again An all-out sales effort by the United States to capture European military orders worth hundreds of millions of pounds is expected to dominate the first fullyinternational version of the Farnborough Air Show opening today. One American aircraft due to show its paces is the top secret Lockheed SR7I, reputedly able to fly at three times the speed of sound.—Farnborough, September 1. Doctors’ allegation Doctors at a hospital in Cordoba, Argentina, have gone on strike in protest against alleged brutality by policemen who entered the hospital to make an arrest. The doctors say that a patient died from a heart attack because they were unable to attend him while they were lined up against a wall with police machineguns pointed at their backs. — Cordoba, September 1 -