Cable Briefs

Press, 29 October 1977, Page 10

Cable Briefs

Tito 'not sick' ‘ Yugoslav officials have denied reports that President Josip Broz Tito, aged 85. is ! ill. but refused to explain why a scheduled visit to Belgrade by the Egyptian President (Mr Anwar Sadat) ! was Suddenly postponed. "President Tito is in excellent health.” a press 'secretary said. — Belgrade. Blase out A stubborn oil-well fire. l ithat killed three people in iTaft, California, has been I snuffed out by an explosion triggered to quell the two-day-old blaze. Fire officials I said that the world-famous I fire fighter. Red Adair, called in on Tuesday to handle the problem, used plastic explosives to put out the flames. — San Francisco. Israeli 4-power Professor Moshe Arens, chairman of the powerful: Foreign Affairs and Security Committee of the Israeli Knesset (Parliament), has| said that Israel is able to! develop and build its own atomic power stations. He told Israeli television that he! had suggested to the Prime Minsiter (Mr Menachem Begin) that a Government authority should be set up to study the matter in view, of the delay in obtaining an] atomic power station from the United States. — Tel Aviv.

‘Syria set to fight' Syria has said it is ready to fight again with Israel because another Middle. East war is less dangerous than an “ambiguous” peace agreement. “Syria is now taking the line of direct military confrontation with the Zionist occupier (of Arab lands),” said “Al Baath.” official newspaper of the ruling Baath Party. — Damascus. Smog-cancer link Lung cancer rates in Los Angeles and San Francisco areas are more than double the American average, and an air quality official blames smog. Mr Tom Quinn, chairman of the California Air Resources Board, said that California had a growing cancer epidemic. California was becoming the nation’s cancer capital, and the ’rowing cancer rates corres>onded to growing air polluion levels. — San Francisco.