Cable news in brief

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33676, 28 October 1974, Page 13

Cable news in brief

Glasgow strike over

’ Glasgow refuse-truck drivers have decided to end their month-old strike, which has led to thousands of tons of rubbish being piled up in the streets. At a mass meeting, the 380 drivers decided to resume work tomorrow, after being given assurances that there would be further negotiations on their pay claim. — Glasgow, October 27. Moscow talks The Soviet Union and Pakistan declared in a joint communique last night that they now’ held identical or closely-related positions on many international issues. The Pakistan Prime Minister (Mr Bhutto) had been in Moscow for talks with Kremlin leaders, and the discussions are believed to have covered Pakistan’s relations with her neighbours, Soviet aid, and possibly Soviet arms supplies. Mr Bhutto is having talks with the Shah of Iran in Teheran on his way home. — Moscow, October 27. Calves sacrificed A group of discontented American farmers slaughtered about 1000 calves yesterday, as part of a continuing protest against falling profits. The 65,0001 b of meat will go to hurricane victims in Honduras. A spokesman for the National Farmers’ Association commented: “It’s cheaper for farmers to give the calves away than to continue feed-’ ing them.” Cattlemen in the neighbouring state of Wisconsin recently killed 650 calves and threw their carcases into a ditch in a protest against falling prices and increasing costs. — Dubuque (Iowa), October 27. It rained potatoes

Residents of Kings Lynn thought that it was snowing, but on closer inspection the white flakes looked more like instant mash potato. And they were. The instant mash covered gardens, cars and glued up windows and turned black cats into albinos. A machine in a local food factory had gone mad: instead of pouring the ■stuff into neat little bags it (was discharging it into the (air. It soared into the clouds, and was precipitated ■over a wide area when it rained. — Kings Lynn, October 27.

Peer resigns Lord Belhaven, aged 47. a Scottish member of the House of Lords has resigned from the Conservative Party in protest against Britain’s treatment of the people of Abaco, a small island in the Bahamas. “The people of Abaco, loyal subjects for 20i> years, wanted to remain part of Britain, but were told to go to hell, and I wonder what the point is in being loyal to Britain,” Lord Belhaven said. Abaco (population 6500) was granted independence from Britain with the remainder of the Bahaman islands last year. Lord Belhaven visited Abaco last May, when, he says, it was obvious that most of the population wanted to remain a crown colony. —- London, October 27.

Cyprus move

A resolution which would have the United Nations General Assembly call for the speedy withdrawal of all foreign armed forces from Cyprus has been submitted today by the Cyprus Government. Deploring “aggression and intervention,” the resolution seems to be aimed mainly at the 40,000 Turkish troops who have occupied about one-third of the island since landing after the Right-wing coup d’etat in July. The Cyprus proposal is for consideration during a debate the 138-nation assembly will hold at Cyprus’s request beginning tomorrow and going on for about a week. — New York, October 27. Mr Nixon

The former President of the United States, Mr Richard Nixon, continues to

undergo anti-coagulation treatment in hospital for phlebitis. There has been no decision yet whether it will be effective enough to stave off surgery. — Long Beach, California, October 27. Alcohol in space Scientists from the United 'States, Britain, and Australia have reported identifying alcohol in space. Dr Patrick Palmer, leader of a scientific research team of 12 men at the Kitt Peak National Radio Astronomy Observatory m (Arizona, said yesterday that they had identified the thirty-first molecule found to exist in a natural state in space: it turned out to be ethanol, or ethyl alcohol, the kind made on earth from (grain. It was discovered in ! clouds of hydrogen near the centre of the Milky Way. ! Alcohol was formed in space by a complicated chemical process far different from the fermentation employed on the Earth to make alcoholic drinks Dr Palmer said. — Tucson, Arizona, October 27.

Arrested in Laos Gregory Charles Rogers, an Australian botanist who has been in Laos for 12 years, and founded the first school for the blind there, has been arrested in a narcotics raid, with having an illegal heroin - processing laboratory in his home. There are two other counts against him: of the illegal possession of a weapon, and of removing buddha images from pagodas and illegally trading them. Three Laotians were also arrested in the raid. — Vientiane, October

Punishment pledge The Greek Prime Minister (Mr Constantine Karamanlis) has promised to punish those responsible for the army coup d’etat that abolished Parliamentary rule in 1967. Mr Karamanlis gave his pledge at a luncheon attended by officers of the powerful Third Army Corps — which is deployed along the Turkish and Bulgarian borders — to mark Salonica’s liberation from Ottoman rule in 1913. — Saionica, October 27. Maharani robbed The Maharani of Jaipur and three companions were robbed of SUSSO,OOO worth of pearl and diamond jewellery early yesterday morning while in a limousine in one of New York’s most elegant areas. The Maharani (Mrs Gayatri Devi) and her friends had attended the “April in Paris” ball at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, and had later gone to the El Morocca Club. When they were returning home, a gunman forced his way into their limousine and ordered the chauffeur to drive to another spot, where he robbed them, and then escaped in a car which had been following behind. Mrs Devi is the wife of Viscount Paul de Rosiere, who is with the jewellery firm of Harry Winston, Paris and New York.—New York, October 27. /Vew prosecutor Mr Henry Swartley Ruth, aged 43, was sworn in yesterday as the new special Watergate prosecutor to succeed Mr Leon Jaworsky. The United States Attorney-Gen-eral (Mr William Saxbe) described Mr Ruth as a man able to solve difficult situations, and added: “He succeeds a man who accomplished his job with great honour and distinction, and those of us who know Mr Ruth expect a similar extremely high type of performance.” In a 10-minute ceremony in the Court of Claims, close to the White House, Mr Ruth took the oath before Judge Byron Skelton. — Washington, October 27. Fees reduced

! East Germany has announced that she will reduce ;the fees charged visitors from the West, in an apparent bid to win a loan ‘equivalent to SNZ22Bm from West Germany. The official East German news agency, A.D.N. says that with effect ifrom November 15, visitors from outside the Communist bloc will have to pay the equivalent of only SNZ4.IB for a visit to East Germany and about. SNZ2.2B . per day to East Berlin. Exactly a year ago, the East Germans raised these fees to SNZ6 and SNZ3 — twice what they had been. — Berlin, October 27. Poznan tragedy Seventy-nine people were injured, 19 of them seriously, i when a tram jumped the rails ;and collided with another tram in Poznan. 150 miles !west of Warsaw yesterday. —Warsaw, October 27.