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Press, 11 April 1977, Page 6

Cabled briefs

(.all for han Australian trade union' will be asked to stop good' moving to and from Fiji tn protest against the appointment of a minority Government there. Mr Apisai Tora. vice-president of the National Federation Party of I Fiji, is in Australia to seek the ban. — Sydney. Easter tragedy • A grandfather, his daughter, and three of his grandchildren, among 12 members of a family gathered to gether to celebrate Easter, have died in a fire thaengulfed a family house in a residential section of Queens, a New York distric’ The other seven escaped un harmed. — New York. Young pushers The New York police aav that boys as young as six are being paid up to s3<Y> a week to act as heroin cou- ’ riers by drug pushers. An 11-year-old boy has been arrested on charges of sellinc heroin in Harlem. — Nev .York.

Mid-air crashes Two mid-air collisions killed at least seven people and destroyed four planes in the United States at Easter week-end. A single engine Cessna 195 collided with a twin-engine Nord 262 making a landing approach at Reading, Pennsylvania airport killing at least four people, while two single engine planes collided nea Buolder, Colorado. ana killed at least three people — Boulder, Colorado. Trawler seized The United States Coast Guard has seized an 84metre Soviet fishing trawler with a crew of 93 for allegedly taking more than a tonne of fish above its authorisation. It is the first seizure under the United States 200-mile limit. — New York.

200-mile zone Burma has established a 200-mile offshore economic zone, the Government has announced. President Ne I Win, in his capacity as chairman of the Council of State, has promulgated a “territorial sea and maritime ’ zone law,” which was earlier passed by the Burmese - Pyithu Hluttaw (Peopled 1 Congress). — Rangoon. ; Embassy wrecked r About 200 screaming Libyan demonstrators broke r into the Egyptian Embassy : in Benghazi. Libya, at the z week-end and smashed its s (windows and doors, the ;i newspaper “Al Ahram” said. i The demonstrators ejected an Egyptain diplomat and t his family who live on the . second floor and then r wrecked their furniture. Re t lations between Egypt and .• Libya have been strained for 1 three years and anti-Egyp-tian demonstrations occur i frequently in Libya. — -Cairo. i ? Mass trial

i c The Sudanese authorities will try 105 people in coni’ nection with an abortive at--1 tempt to seize Juba Airport - on February 2 in an alleged , plot to force the secession of southern Sudan, the ’’ Khartoum daily “Al Ayam” ? says. The defendants include j 20 civilians, 83 non-commis-e sioned officers, and two “ policemen. — Khartoum. ’ I Ware of arson A wave of fire-boml . caused seven fires in shops e in the centre of Dublin on s Saturday. Little damage was s !caused, as firemen and the » police were on the alert after a tip-off that an mr tensive campaign of arson s. was planned. Earlier. . searches of stores around 5 the city centre had disclosed 11 crude incendiary devices hidden among clothing disIplays — Dublin.