Cable Briefs

Press, 2 September 1977, Page 6

Cable Briefs

Strike vote British air-traffic control assistants have voted to call another strike if the Civil Aviation Authority suspends any worker for taking part in a go-slow. Heathrow Airport officials reported that airlines were still operating curtailed flight schedules as they did during a four-day strike that ended on Tuesday, with delays of up to five hours common. — London. Tito honoured

e President Tito of Yugosr lavia, once branded a traitor r to communism by China, has become the first foreigner to < visit the Mao Tse-tung mau- - soleum. The surprise ini vitation to the mausoleum, f still not officially open, - underlined the extraordinary 1 welcome the 85-year-old - statesman has received since [arriving in Peking on Tuesi 1 day. Official newspapers -Ihave devoted more than half 5 i their space to his visit, and i[when the President began t) talks he faced a high-pow- : 'ered Chinese team headed by > [ Chairman Hua Kuo-feng. — . Peking. ! | Nuclear accord Japan and the United, [States have reached com- [ plete agreement on Japanese (plans to start test-runs for i two years at its nuclear [ reprocessing plant, delegates I for both sides have said. [ They told a press conference [in Tokyo that details of the [agreement would be an- | nounced in Washington this ; month. — Tokyo. Cypriot President Acting President Spyros ; Kyprianou has been elected President of Cyprus by acclamation to fill the remainling six months of the late [Archbishop Makarios’s term of office. Mr Kyprianou, I who is 44, became Acting President when President [Makarios died on August 3.1 [ln New York, Cyprus has! [warned the Security Councilj [that prospects for peace on; [the island would be dealt a! [“mortal blow” if it did not! [stop Turkey “colonising” the 1 ' [new town of Famagusta. —[ Nicosia. Soldier shot A guerrilla sniper has shot dead a British soldier on patrol in north Belfast. The shooting occurred only hours after two children were injured by shrapnel after a unit of the outlawed Irish Republican Army fired a rocket at a British Army vehicle and missed it. — Belfast. Election pressure The Prime Minister (Mr! Malcolm Fraser) is coming, under increasing pressure! from some of his senior. Ministers to call a General j ' Election in December. In-i formed sources have said I [that Liberal and National! Country Party branches, throughout the country are! geared to stage a pre-Christ-mas election, one year ahead of schedule. The Government •is known to be worried about its unemployment and ■ inflation problems which could deteriorate even furl ther next year. — Canberra.

Carnival idea Germaine Greer, the former high priestess qf women’s lib, who lives in London’s Notting Hill district, wants black leaders to move their annual carnival to the Mall — the approach |to Buckingham Palace — in I future, according to the LonI don “Daily Express” gossip ] columnist, William Hickey. He wrote that Ms Greer had told him: “The Mall would Ibe an ideal place for it — ; plenty of soft grass and • plenty of trees.” But Hickey Concluded: “I do not think jher views are in any way connected with the fact that she is trying to sell her house in Notting Hill . . . • dear me, no.” — London. Menten denial I A Dutch millionaire art collector, Pieter Menten, has i rejected Soviet testimony, • placing him at the scene of, [World War II atrocities] carried out by German! forces in Poland. Menten,] aged 78, is on trial in Am-] sterdam accused of taking] part in the 1941 slaughter of some 200 Poles and Jews at! the villages of Podhoroce. and Urycz which are nowl part of the Soviet Ukraine. — Amsterdam. i