Cable Briefs

Press, 15 February 1978, Page 8

Cable Briefs

Bomb accident An American warplane on an exercise has accidentally dropped a 200 kg bomb on a deserted part of Sardinia's south coast, the United States Sixth Fleet has said N.o-one was injured. Local officials said that the explosion on Saturday caused panic nearby and blasted a crater on Cape Malta tano.—Cagliari (Cardinia). Prize bitch found The boxer bitch. Tyegarth Bottoms Up, who disappeared from the Cruft's dog show in London last Friday is celebrating with extra dog food after being found in Batterseas dogs’ home. The prize bitch, also known as Sukhi, disappeared after being left for 15 minutes at Cruft’s by her owner. The chance find today was made by the owner’s kennelmaid. Sukhi, winner of several prizes at championship shows, was apparently found wandering around Battersea without her collar at the week-end by the police and taken to the home. —- London. Watch on police Mr Justice White — whose controversial report led to the sacking of the former South Australia police commissioner, Mr Harold Salisbury — will monitor the operations of the South Australian police special branch, the Premier (Mr Don Dunstan) has announced. Mr Dunstan said the government had the approval of the Chief Justice (Dr J. J. Bray) for a member of the judiciary to monitor future police security operations. Mr Justice White said in a report last month that the special branch had gathered sometimes “scandalously inaccurate” materia! with no security implications. — Adelaide. Case to continue A 70-year-old comatose woman who was the subject of New Jersey’s second “right-to-die" court case has died while hooked to a respirator, but hospital officials say they will pursue the case in the ' courts anyway. Officials at John F. Kennedy' Memorial Hospital, where Helen Dembowski died after suffering another brain hemorrhage. said the hospital’s ethics committee would oresent its recommendations to a judge this week. — Edison. Pilots cause concern American officials are expressing concern about a sharp increase in the numbers of Soviet pilots in Cuba, the first visible rise in Russian presence on the island since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. The increase this time, however, appears limited to men, not arms, according to one Administration source. The source said a recent significant increase in the number of Soviet pilots operating in Cuba indicated that the Russians are taking the place of Cuban pilots flying missions for Ethiopia in its war against Somalia in the Horn of Africa. — Washington. Satellite claim Canada will ask the Soviet Union to pay well over a million dollars as the cost of recovering radio - active debris from a Soviet nu-clear-powered satellite, Canada’s Foreign Minister (Mr Donald Jamieson) has said. He said Canada would demand that the United Nations adopt “a stronger regime” to prevent satellite accidents such as the disintegration of the nuclearpowered Soviet craft over northern Canada last month. — Ottawa. Wheat talks

Big wheat-exporting and wheat-importing countries have begun six weeks of negotiations in Geneva still sharply divided about how best to bring greater stability to world grain markets. The United Nations-spon-sored conference, will try to produce a new international arrangement in place of a 1971 wheat agreement which will expire on June 30. — Geneva. Historic claim History has been made in the High Court in London when the claims of an unborn child injured in a road accident were recognised for the first time. The baby, Michael Williams, of Atworth, Wiltshire, was born three weeks prematurely with serious brain damage the day after his mother was involved as a passenger in a car crash near Exeter in January, 1972. The Court was told that the driver of the other vehicle in the crash had admitted liability for the child’s future care. The amount has yet to be settled. — London. Independence date? Mr Toalipi Lauti, Chief Minister of Britain’s small Pacific dependency of Tuvalu, formerly the Ellice Islands, has called for independence for the territory about October 1, this year. British officials have said. Mr Lauti made his remarks at a conference in London to discuss moves towards Tuvalu’s independence. The British Government earlier had told the five-day meeting that it was London’s policy to help Tuvalu progress towards full sovereign independence. — London.