Cable Briefs

Press, 6 May 1978, Page 8

Cable Briefs

Rhodesia bid The British Foreign Secretary (Dr David Owen) has announced that Britain and the United States are making another effort to stage an all-party conference on the Rhodesian independence dispute. He told Parliament that a top Foreign Office expert, Mr John Graham, was being sent to Africa “for as long as necessary” to prepare for a round-table conference. In Salisbury, the military command has announced another 28 deaths in the six-year-old guerrilla war — one soldier, 16 “terrorists,” and nine “terrorist collaborators,” a communique said. — London. School collapses A tornado has slammed into a Clearwater, Florida, elementary school, collapsing the roof and walls and burying students and teachers under the wreckage. Two pupils were killed, and 94 students and teachers were taken to hospital. Four students were listed in critical condition, and another was in poor condition. — Miami. Nixon suit A suit has been filed in a San Francisco court charging the former United States President, Mr Richard Nixon, with breach of fiduciary duty, and demanding that the United States Treasury be given a share of profits from his newly-pub-lished memoirs. The suit demands compensatory damages of SUSI.3M and unspecified punitive damages. The plaintiffs are two San Francisco Bay area women. —San Francisco. Protester burned A 41-year-old painter with a history of anti-Nazi protests has set fire to himself while crying “Nazis out” in front of the West German Embassy in Tel Aviv. Policemen doused the flames, and the Polish-born protester, Andre Kilchinski, was taken to hospital with what appeared to be slight burns. His protest came on Holocaust Day, when Israel commemorates the six million Jews exterminated by the Nazi rulers of Germany before and during World War Two. — Tel Aviv. School buried A mudslide has buried a school in a village near Salvador, Brazil, killing at least six small children and one of their teachers. Officials in Salvador, the capital of north-eastern Bahia state, say the small school at Fazenda Tombador, some 128 km to the north, was virtually swept away when five' days of drenching rains turned a dirt-covered hillside into an avalanche of mud. — Salvador.