CABLED BRIEFS

Press, 2 August 1977, Page 8

CABLED BRIEFS

| Survivor* rescued I Nine people drifting for a j week on a lifeboat and raft, (were rescued at the week- ; end off the Philippines is-

i idiiG or iviiiioanao, tne coast Guard has reported. It said ’ the survivors were passen- i .gers and crew of the 40-ton' ! Philippines’ cargo ship Torribio which sank on July 25j, I off Leyte, centra) Philip- ( pines, about 600 km south-' east of Manila. — Manila. I Racial tension American military author- j ities have enforced a curfew; and stepped up patrols to defuse increased racial ten-' sion since an incident in| which two white Marines were slashed with a razor ini (a confrontation with five! blacks near a United States; i(base on Okinawa. Three out,l breaks of fighting involving! blacks and whites have been! (reported off and on the base, land there has been one al-; (leged robbery in which a (white Marine was forced to; turn $5O over to two blacks lin a nightclub. — Okinawa. I Golfer shot ' L - ‘ I A Japanese businessman. (teeing off at the third hole;' lat a golf course in Bangkok)! has been shot and seriously;) 'wounded by a gunman the! ( ■police have said. The gun-'| man, believed to have been! (waiting for .he golfer behind , (some bushes, fired at him J, ! from close range. The mo-1, tive for the shooting was! ( [not known, the police added.j i— Bangkok. I It H.Q. bombed , Bombs have damaged the headquarters of the Rhodesian nationalist leader. Mr;

I Joshua Nkomo, in Lusaka., Zambia, the Zambian Tnter- ; ior Minister (Mr Aaron Mil-; ’ ner) has announced. Mr Mil-) (ner blamed the bombing on agents of the Rhodesian t Prime Minister (Mr lan I Smith). He said the blasts : had caused widespread dam-; 5 age. but no casualties. —; [Lusaka. I' ’ ! Marine border ! North Korea has an-; J nounced the establishment of! a “military border" within a i newly-created 360 km off-! (shore economic zone and! I has said r ha’ no foreign mil-' | itary aircraft or naval ves-; seis will be allowed inside.! i A statement by North! [Korea’s Supreme Military) (Council, quoted by the Ko-; | rean Central News Agency,; i said the border was being | set up to defend the coun-! | try’s national interests and, j sovereignty. The border exI tends 80km off the North Korean coast in the Sea of Japan, and 360 km from the coast in the Yellow Sea. —j iTokyo.