Cable Briefs

Press, 1 November 1977, Page 8

Cable Briefs

M.P. dies The British Labour Party has suffered a blow to its precarious position through the death of one of its members of Parliament. Mrs Millie Miller, aged 54, a Labour M.P. for three years, died during the night, meaning the party is now seven seats short of an over-all majority in the House of Commons. The Government survives through the voting support of the 13 members of the Opposition Liberal Party.—London. ‘Bhutto terror’

The former Pakistani Prime Minister, Mr Zulfikar All Bhutto, has been accused in the Supreme Court of running the Pakistan Government by. “institutionalised corruption and terror.” Mr A. K. Brohi, representing the State, said in a statement to the Court that the former Prime Minister, who was deposed by a military coup on July 5, ruthlessly eliminated all opposition. Replying to arguments contained in a writ filed by Mrs Bhutto that her husband’s detention by the army was illegal, Mr Brohi sought to establish that the imposition of martial law was justified under the doctrine of necessity.— Islamabad. 'Soviet unrest’

Angry Lithuanians at a soccer game in Wilnius three weeks ago began shouting anti-Russian slogans and swarmed into the streets, overturning and setting fire to police cars, a Moscow dissident has reported. Mr Alexander Podrabinek, who recently wrote a document outlining alleged abuses of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, said he learned of the incident during a trip to Lithuania.—Moscow. Soweto paper

Soweto township, the seething caldron of South African unrest, has a new black newspaper to fill the information gap left when the Government banned the “World” in its big crackdown on black protest. But so far the township’s new voice, the “Post,” is politically muted compared with its renowned predecessor. The “Post” is owned by the Argus group, which also owned the “World” and “Week-end World,” both suppressed as a threat to the State, and will be edited by a white man. The black editor of the “World,” Mr Percy Qoboza, has been detained without trial.—Johannesburg.