Cable Briefs

Press, 27 August 1977, Page 8

Cable Briefs

Apartheid ‘disease’ / Mr Andrew Young, Amer- > ica’s United Nations repre- » sentative, has said that apartheid is a disease that can be cured and that it is not necessary to kill the patient in the process. Addressing a world conference for action against apartheid, in Lagos, Nigeria, the 45-year-old black diplomat said that most of his own life was lived under a “very rigid and violent system of apar- • theid.” Mr Young, whose address was made available by the United States mission ■ to the United Nations, said: “No-one at this conference 1 or in any meeting of the Organisation of African Unity ■ has ever called for the des- • truction of four million white citizens in South Africa.” — New York. Attack foiled Karlsruhe police say they have foiled an attack on the office of the city’s chief pub- ' lie prosecutor, five months after the previous holder of the post was shot dead on his way to work. Initial reports of the attempt were unclear, but a press spokesman for the public prose--1 cutor said a number of explosive devices were laid next to a wall of the building. Unconfirmed radio and television reports said some kind of gun had been erected in the window of a neighbouring apartment overlooking the office of the chief public prosecutor, Mr Hurt Rebmann. — Karls- 1 ruhe. Vance guarded The United States Secretary of State (Mr Vance), ; sounding weary after four days of talks with China’s ; leaders, has said he believes that both sides understand better the problems involved 1 in normalising relations, Mr . Vance’s guarded replies con- 1 trasted with the more optimistic Chinese tone. Mr 1 Vance is now in Japan for i talks on Mr Carter’s nuclear i policies. — Peking. J