CABLED BRIEFS

Press, 22 April 1977, Page 6

CABLED BRIEFS

/or Hitler' Two Argentine Right-wing organisations have distributed invitations to attend ■ Masses in memory of Hitler at the Roman Catholic Cath. edral in Buenos Aires on 1 April 30. The Masses, “for the eternal rest of our bioou brother in Christ Adolf Hit- , ler,” are sponsored by twc ■I groups calling themselves the Arygn Integral Nationali ist Fatherland and the Pius 1 Catholic Crusade. The cathedral rector (Monsignor Da iniel Keegan) strongly denied i'any such Masses were being J held and told NZPA-Reuter: “We wouldn’t undertake anj ; commitments of this kind, 'not even if we were crazy? — Buenos Aires. Queen .»/ The Queen will celebrate • her fifty-first birthday today ■ ; (N.Z. time) and will spend the day privately at Windsor . Castle ... a time for family presents rather than the for- . (mality of her ceremonial l birthday. On the same day a * ! new companies act will ;come into force under which the Royal family has been ■ exempted from revealing i their private shareholdings. A palace spokesman said That one reason was to avoid people buying into (companies that the Queen 'had invested in. — London.

trnbulaiu-e blown up

i Ten people have been i killed in Rhodesia in political violence during the past (two days, a security force i communique has said in Salisbury. In one incident a imine blew up an ambulance from Nyadir Mission Hospital in the north-east of the country, killing a black student nurse and injuring a white nursing sister and a black driver, it said. — Salisbury. Fires kill 10

At least 10 people have been killed and 200 families made homeless in two big fires, one in Manila, the other in the southern port city of Zamboanga, the police have said. They said seven people died in a fire which raged through a thickly populated district of Zamboanga, which is at the centre of a Moslem autonomy movement, destroying lat least 90 houses. — Manila.

Inquiry closes

The United States Justice Department has closed an inquiry into possible antitrust violations involved in the purchase of three New York City publications by the Australian newspaper magnate. Rupert Murdoch. “The investigation is closed. It was a preliminary inquirv to see whether a full-fledged investigation was justified,” a department spokesman, Mr Mark Sheehan, said. “Our preliminary inquiry turned up no evidence warranting a further investigation.” — Washington.

Longet in jail

I The singer, Claudine Lon[get, has started serving a 30-day jail sentence for the [fatal shooting of her lover, i Vladimir "Spider" Sabich. in a $U5250,000 ski-resort I home they shared one year ; ago. Longet the former wife 'of the singer, Andy Williams, was convicted of criminally negligent homicide, a misdemeanor, on January 14. Sabich. a world professional ski champion, was shot once on March 21, last year.

Stronger growth

The American economy shrugged off the ill effects of severe winter weather in the first three months of 1977 to register its strongest growth in a year, the U.S. Government has reported. The Commerce Department said Gross National Product, the total output of goods and services in the economy, grew at an annual rate of 5.2 per cent during the quarter. This was double the rate in the previous quarter and the highest since the 9.2 per cent in the first quarter of last year. The growth was accompanied by a steadying in the pace of inflation. Prices rose at an annual rate of 5.8 per cent, the same as in the previous quarter. — Washington.

Terrorism warning

The exiled Soviet historian, Andrei Amalrik, said that if the legal dissident movement in the Soviet Union was destroyed there was a great danger of terrorist activities breaking out there in the next few years. i Mr Amalrik, speaking at a [press conference in : Strasbourg at the invitation [of the European Parliament’s i Christian Democrat group of [members, said that at present people like Dr An[drei Sakharov, the Nobel I Peace Prize winner, were (holding back extremists in ' the dissident movement. — (Strasbourg.

Huge drug haul

' More than 50 alleged leaders of an international 'smuggling ring have been arrested in “operation wishbone,” the latest drive to halt the flow of drugs from Mexico to the United States. Authorities said the smuggling operation supplied the American market with 40 (tonnes of Mexican marijuana land 20 kg (441 b of heroin every month. Since the drive began 35 tonnes of marijuana, 30 kg (661 b of heroin, and 1 kg (221 b of cocaine have been seized. — I Rio Grande City.