Cable Briefs

Press, 28 November 1977, Page 8

Cable Briefs

IChairma nheld About 100 workers at the >■ French State-owned Renault y firm have held the firm s it chairman prisoner for seven d hours to seek higher pay--0 ment for time lost during a s recent strike, a company ■' spokesman has said. The e workers trapped Mr Bernard Vernier-Pallez in an office at 11 Renault’s Billancoiirt factory n in the Paris suburbs. They originally said they would “ only release him when he agreed to open negotiations [but the company spokesman i said nothing had yet been agreed. — Paris. Appeal fails

Two imprisoned Wacks 'who said South African i police kidnapped them from j Swaziland lost an Appeal i Court case in which they de- ' manded to be put back (across the border. Earlier (this year Joseph Nduli was I sentenced to a total of IS I years in jail and Cleophas iNdhlovu to 15 years for [charges under South Africa’s Terrorism Act. Giving the Appeal Court ruling on their case against the South African Government, the Chief Justice (Mr F. L. H. Rumpff) said that under international law their argu- ( merit could only be upheld if (the Pretoria Government had (authorised their seizure in Swaziland. — Bloemfontein. Sentences “too so//' I British courts are not (being tough enough with (people who scar or injure (others, the Criminal Injuries ; Board has said this week as (it announced a huge increase 'in the money it paid out last (year. The board awarded (nearly SNZIBM to victims of (violent crime during the 12 i months to March this year i — a5O per cent rise on the (previous year’s record of SNZI2M. — London. ( kidnap arrests Two suspected kidnappers of the Austrian multiI millionaire Mr Walter (Michael Palmers, have been arrested in Switzerland, the I Australian Interior Minister (Mr Erwin Lane) has said, (adding that an extradition request was already being (prepared. The 74-year-old Mr Palmers, chief of a chain of women’s lingerie stores, was kidnapped on November 9 and released four days later after a ransom of almost (SNZI.BM was paid. — Vienna.

Deal li sen I eru e A 42 - year • old Liechtenstein worker has been sentenced to death by hanging for the shooting murders of his prostitute wife and two of his children The death sentence, the first passed in the country' in nearly 200 years, is likely to be commuted to life in prison by Prince Franz Joseph. A court found Hans Frick guilty on three counts of murder plus two counts of attempted murder.— Vaduz. 32 die in crash A French military’ trans nort plane flying a naval rand back to its base after a ariety performance has ■rashed into a mountain tear Bezier, killing all 32 on toard. The twin-engined No atlas was carrying 28 fficers and ratings and a -ew of four. Local officials aid there were nd urvivors. — Paris,