Cable Briefs

Press, 24 August 1977, Page 8

Cable Briefs

Black summit The Presidents of front* line States and Rhodesian black nationalist leaders of the Patriotic Front will meet in Lusaka on Saturday to discuss the latest AngloAmerican proposals to end white rule in Rhodesia. Diplomatic sources said the leaders of Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia and the Patriotic Front co-leaders, Mr Robert Mugabe and Mr Joshua Nkomo, would also hold talks with the British Foreign Secretary (Dr David Owen) and the American Ambassador to the United Nations (Mr Andrew Young), — Lusaka, Storm toll 13 The death toll from a storm which hit the Philippines last week has risen to 13 with 16 crewman of an inter-island cargo vessel still missing, according to reports reaching the Coast Guard. Coast Guard authorities also reported that one inter-is-land cargo vessel was still missing and that 27 crewmen of a barge which sank had been rescued. — Manila, Guerrilla *triaV The self-styled M-19 Leftwing guerrilla group said today it would “try” the for* [ mer Colombian Agriculture Minister, Mr Hugo Ferreira Neira, for alleged perjsecution and oppression of I workers. The M-19, which has claimed responsibility for kidnapping Mr Ferreira, who is 46, on Saturday, said in a message delivered to the “El Espacio’ J daily newspaper that he would be tried by a “people’s court.” *‘El Espacio” noted that the M-19 levelled the same charges against Mr Jose Mercado, head of the Colombian Workers’ Confederation, when they kidnapped and later killed him early last year. — Bogota. Bhutto accusation Mr Gul Hassan Khan, once one of Pakistan’s most controversial generals, has alleged that the former Prime Minister, Mr Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, conspired to bring about the 1971 dismemberment of the country. The former general said at a news conference that the present interim military Government should order an inquiry into Mr Bhutto’s part in events which led to civil war in 1971. Mr Gul Hassan, a lieutenant-general at the time of the civil war, commanded the army then Mr Bhutto sacked him and made him an Ambassador three months after taking power in December, 1971, accusing him of "Bonapartism.” —• Lahore.