Cable Briefs

Press, 22 August 1977, Page 8

Cable Briefs

Ex-Minister held A Left-wing extremist (group has taken responsi-’ Ibility for the kidnapping of ia former Cabinet Minister,! iMr Hugo Ferreira Neira, isnatched from his downtown! I Bogota offices on Saturday.; (Hundreds of police and army; I troops virtually cordoned off the Colombian capital,; I blockading all roads in an effort to choke off any at-! j tempt to smuggle Mr Fer-; reira Neira out of the city.l — Bogota. ‘ 4rnty trill go’ i The Tanzanian President I (Dr Julius Nyerere) has said Ithat Britain and the United States have agreed to hardline Rhodesian nationalist I demands that a con- | stitutional agreement will in- 1 icorporate the disbanding of (the present Rhodesian Army land its replacement by the 1 (Zimbabwe People’s Army I (guerrilla force. President INyerere told a press conferjence that he had received | messages confirming this (from the British and AmeriIcan Governments. This, he I said, cleared up the “little (confusion” he had ex-i perienced during his recent; 'meeting in London with the; i British Foreign Secretary; ((Dr David Owen). — Dar-es-; I Salaam. Black killed The South African police; shot dead a black teenager and seriously wounded anlothei person in a raid on I Friday on a Soweto school! (which they said was in- 1 jvolved in fire-bomb instruc-; Ition. About 137 pupils and l teachers were detained in; the raid. — Johannesburg. I'.atijiladesli floods Floods sweeping through a huge tract of north and central Bangladesh have I affected more than 40.0001 people, according to reports reaching Dacca. Officials} said that in the Rangpur dis-i I trict about 300 bamboo] houses were washed away

by flood waters from the’ Brahmaputra River, and ini the Kushtia district 400 tarnlilies were made homeless by I (erosion of the banks of the] ißiver Ganges. — Dacca. . head quits The vice-president of the United African National | Council has resigned, claimling that the black nationalist | organisation has failed to unite Rhodesia's black .people Mr Elliott M. Gabel-] i lah, who has headed the council during the frequent land prolonged absences of j Bishop Abel Muzorewa. I leader of the organisation, is i the fifth member of the 1 group’s executive body to resign within the last month. — Salisbury. Irish elections The Irish Fianna Fail Party of the Prime Minister (Mr Jack Lynch) has won! control of the Irish Senate by a narrow margin. Final results of the three-day count, to fill the 49 seats up for election, gave Fianna I Fail 20: the Fine Gael Oppo- i sition. 18; Labour seven: and! Independents. four. Mr 1 . Lynch has the power to nominate 11 senators, thus 1 giving the Government a two-vote majority. Senators are elected by members of] Parliament, local councils, and university graduates. I