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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34131, 19 April 1976, Page 13

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! .-ittraetive notoriety The number of students who sought a job with the Central Intelligence Agencv in 1975 was up by 30 per cent compared with 1974. the “New York Times” said today. The newspaper suggested that in spite of recent revelations of past C.I.A activities, the students were drawn to the agency because ,of the general lack of jobs, and the necessity of finding [ work at anv price. — New York. Easter message _ President Idi Amin of j Uganda said in an Laster 'message to the nation that I the reason for perpetual ibloodshed in the Middle Fast .was that Christ had been “murdered bv Zionist IsI raelis.” He said Christians [and Moslems should unite to (“regain the Holy Places and ; to help Palestinians regain ; their land forcibly occupied [by Zionists " — Kampala Hersh honoured ' Seymour Hersh, of the "New York Times” has rejeetved the Drew Pearson i Award for “general exI cellence in investigative re--1 porting." The award. tn honour of the memory and [career of the Washington [columnist. went to Hersh for his stories exposing domestic spying by the Central Intelligence Agency and United States efforts to “destabilise” the Chilean Government of Pre'-ider.i I Salvadore Allende. — Washjington. Russians sail Five Soviet Naval vessels sailed from Alexandria onlv an hour before a deadline I terminating port privileges [for the Russian fleet in [Egypt, the newspaper. “Al [Ahram,” reports. On March 15, Egypt abrogated its friendship and co-operation treaty with the Soviet Union, and decided at the same time to end the use of the seaports the Soviet Union had enjoyed since 1968. — Cairo. Run for hunger The black activist, Dick Gregory, is about to run I from Los Angeles to New [Yoirk City to emphasise the [hunger problem the United ■ States is facing. Mr Gregory, who plans to leave Los Ange’es on Wednesday and expects to arrive at City Hall in New York City on July 4, said, “If America doesn’t change its food policies . . . We're going to have food riots this year." —Los Angeles. Flight from S.l. ; A senior official of ths ■ anti-apartheid Christian InI stitute of South Africa has i fled the country’ without a passport, and is believed to be making for Holland. Mr Horst Kleinschmidt, aged 30. left his Johannesburg home 10 days ago, leaving behind his wife, Ilona, and their small child. Friends said that Mr Kleinschmidt believed that he was about to be arrested for his antiapartheid activities. His passport was confiscated in 1974. — Johannesburg. Bad timing A British Post Office reception for 700 guests, to mark the invention of the telephone, has touched a raw nerve in Britain, where postal and telephone charges doubled last year. The editor of the “Sunday Mirror” newspaper has declined his invitation in print, saying that he thinks it is' “a shocking waste of public money to invite 700 guests to this bonanza.”

The paper pointed out that the Post Office got itself into the “Guinness Book of Records” with last year’s world-beating $494m loss. Post Office charges have risen 400 per cent since January 1971, and it hopes to make a "modest profit” this year. — London.