Cable news reported briefly

Press, 19 June 1976, Page 6

Cable news reported briefly

Arrests in Malaysia Seventeen persons sus- ; pected of being Communistsympathisers have been ar- ; | rested in the Gua Musang < : area of Malaysia. In housei to-housc searches, the police also seized gelignite and! wire suspected of being destined for home-made bombs.] The 17, including three) women, were arrested under; the Internal Securite Act,] which means that they can ] be held without trial) indefinitely. About 3000! guerrillas of the outlawed Malayan Communist Party stage sporadic attacks on security forces and Government projects, but the Government maintains that they pose no serious threat. — Kuala Lumpur. Junk on show The junk that clogs Je-I rusalem’s sewers includes! items so unusual that sani-i tation workers have put) some < 1 them on exhibition.! Two sub-machine-guns and a! motor -cycle frame are) among the objects on dis-! plav in a municipal warehouse. They were found ini manh les. the covers of]; which weigh 2201 b. —- Je-j rusalem. r Rackstage brawl Two rival belly-dancers!' fought a bitter backstage! battle over a gift from a!) nightc'ub customer, according to evidence given at a,- ] Reading Crown Court hearing. As a result, Atihi Ter-]' reri (stage name Soraya),! aged 27. was charged on two', counts ot wounding Miss!. Francine Hebert, aged 21.] The scene of the battle was] the Omar Khayyam night-1 club m Regent Street, Lon-, don Miss Hebert’s dress was] tom, both had hair pulled: out. and both were exten-| ( sivelv scratched. Miss He- ( bert alleges that Soraya was;, jealous of the attention she 1 was receiving from custom- I j ers, and that the brawl I j began after she was given]] 20 by a customer. The fight ] ended with a bottle crashing;! over Miss Hebert’s face.]] causing cuts which needed t 17 stitches. — London. |«

Cornfeid married

Mr Bernie Cornfeid, the former head of a multimillion dollar mutual fund empire, has married a New York model, Miss Larraine Armbruster, at his Beverly Hills mansion Mr Cornfield

is 48 and Miss Armbruster, 28. Two hundred guests carried candles at the ceremony. The film actor. Tony Curtis, was best man, and the bride’s sister, Cindy was maid-of-honour. Mr Cornfeid. 'he founder of Investors Overseas Services, spent about 11 months in a Swiss prison on charges of fraud, dishonest management, forgery 7 , and incitement to speculate in connection with the fund’s collapse, but was never brought to trial. He was released on bail of five million Swiss francs (about s2m) in April, 1974. — Los Angeles. km barrassing leak The British Labour Government has ordered an inquiry into the leak of Cabinet minutes showing how it turned down a child-relief programme. “This is a very grave matter,” the Prime Minister (Mr Callaghan) told Parliament after announcing the inquiry. A section of the programme was published in the social science magazine, “New Society.” — London.

Suspect film

A Norwich solicitor has blamed the David Bowie film, The Man Who Fell to Earth” for a teen-ager's knife attack on a complete stranger. Mr lan Benton told the Norwich Juvenile Court I that the boy, aged 15,j (stabbed a man in an under- 1 pass at Waterloo Station, ! London, less than an hour: after he had seen the film.! (“People call this film a work: ■of art. and describe this: (superstar as a genius,” Mr] Benton said, “but Bowie is: lan acknowledged pervert,) and cynical about anything! with a mark of authority.) I’here must be a connection! between Bowie's actions in the film and what later oc-| iturred in the boy’s mind”. 'The boy, who admitted a (charge of malicious woundling. said that he could not : believe what he had done. He was placed in the care ofi 'the Cheshire Council for medical treatment. — I.on-; don. I id mi leer decoys Dozens of women (have applied for jobs as! | police woman decoys in Salt; | Lake Citv's “red light” dis-! ] trier since the arrest of a (member of- the House of]. Representatives, Allan Howe,! lon a charge of soliciting sex; (from two decoys masquerad-; ing as prostitudes. Captain, IWilford Stoler, who runs the] (city’s vice squad, said that; jhis office had been flooded] (with calls from women who: (wanted part-time jobs. “Why; ■not?” he said. “It’s good; part-time work.” — Salt! Lake City.

I .S. naval change

Adm’ral Maurice Weisner ;■ will become the new Commao d e r-in-Chief. United(States Forces in the Pacific.) Admiral Weisner, who is] i now Commander, United! (States Navy Forces in the!, Pacific, will’succeed Admiral,Noel Goler, and will be sue-' ceeded in his present post], by tTce-Admiral Thomas: Hayward, now Commander,) United States Seventh Fleet;, in the Far East. — Washington. |1

Obituary

Lord Casey, the former Australian stateman who has died, aged 85, was devoted to serving his country and the Commonwealth in war and peace. He had been described as a unique Austra-

lian. a man of exceptional qualities and extraordinary attainments. In his lifetime, he was a Cambridgeeducated mining engineer, a highly-decorated First World War veteran; a pioneer of the Australian Foreign Service; a Cabinet Minister and the first Australian member of the British War Cabinet: the United Kingdom's representative in the Middle East; Governor of Bengal; Australia’s first life peer and its third Australian-born Gover-nor-General. Lord Casey was also an author and an enthusiastic aviator. In every area; of his working life he be-i came known for his court-i esy. sincerity, integrity, anddignity. — Sydney. Odd assault Mr David Ada way. aged’ 35, was attacked on a hotelterrace in Maidenhead by a, man who hit him over the; head with a statue of Venus! and stole his trousers. MrAdaway 7 suffered cuts and: bruises. Venus was decapi-; rated. — Maidenhead, |i

J pry drv

The Anglian Water Authority has issued a warning that babies in the east of England may have to drink bottled water to prevent them suffering from an excess of nitrates caused by drought conditions. The Director of Scientific Services (Mr A. W. Davies) say’s that unless there is substantial rain within the next month, the authority will have to supply bottled water over a wide area. — London. . . . and very net Moscow is having its wettest summer for nearly a century. the newspaper, “Komsomolskaya Pravda” reports, quoting a weather office expert as saying that 12 inches of rain had fallen on the capital in 10 weeks — twice the usual amount. :— Moscow. liitcnlional blaze Policemen fought about 100 hill tribesmen before burning opium-refining equipment in a heroin factory in the I jungles of Thailand's northern province of Chiang Mai. (The factory was found in the ,opium-growing area called : the Golden Triangle borderI ing Laos and Burma. One j policeman was wounded and la helicopter slightly damaged during the operation. This (was the second heroin laboriatory destroyed in the Gol- . den Triangle by’ the Thai .police this year. — Bangkok.

U.K. recovery The Bank of England says [that Britain has made a I good beginning to economic Irecovery, but that inflation [remains the country’s most I critical problem, and is still [well above that of its main I competitors. The central [bank’s quarterly bulletin [emphasises the need for firm control of Government i spending, which, according ito official estimates, is likely Ito exceed revenue by about ;£12,000m this year. — Lon ! I don. ’ /