Cable Briefs

Press, 31 October 1977, Page 8

Cable Briefs

Tighter security Security precautions have been tightened at the headquarters of the Hong Kong anti-corruption commission after a mob attack on Friday and four subsequent bomb threats, the police said today. On Friday about 40 people, believed to be offduty policemen, stormed the office of the independent commission against corruption, which has vowed to stamp out police corruption syndicates and has arrested 120 policemen in graft probes over the last two months.—Hong Kong. Tough-line threat The Canary Islands Independence Movement is ending its past year’s armed propaganda campaign to launch a new and tougher phase of operations from November 1,» its secretarygeneral (Mr Antonio. Cubiilo) has said. He gave no details, but said that after a clash in Las Palmas between police and medical students, in which some students were injured, his movement had decided to take very serious measures in view of the attitude of the police, symbol of Spanish colonisation. — Algiers.

Prison riot Riot police have clashed with prisoners who set fire l<< two cell blocks in Modelo Prison in Barcelona and an unknown number of people have been injured. The prisoners — all serving sentences for common law offences — apparently staged the mutiny in protest against the Government’s refusal to grant them amnesty along the lines of one given to political prisoners earlier this month. —- Barcelona.

Demands not met The European Common Market has sidestepped most of the important demands made by the Arab nations at the so-called Euro-Arab dialogue in Brussels informed sources say. They said that the Common Market has not responded to an Arab call for the E.E.C. States to recognise the Palestine Liberation Organisation as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. — Brussels.