Cable Briefs

Press, 18 August 1978, Page 6

Cable Briefs

Labour ahead The ruling British Labour Party has moved into a 4 per cent lead over the Opposition Conservative Party and now is favoured by 47.5 per cent of the electorate, according to a public opinion poll published in the “Daily Telegraph.” The Gallup poll said 43.5 per cent of those questioned last week preferred the Conservatives and 6 per cent chose the small Liberal Party. A similar poll last month gave the Conservatives a 2 per cent lead over Labour — by 45 to 43 per cent — and the Liberals 8.5 per cent, — London, Carter pep talks President Jimmy Carter, spending an hour at the headquarters of the United States Central Intelligence Agency, said on Wednesday that the agency’s employees must be “more pure and more clean and more decent and more honest than almost any other American Government workers. You are almost are in the position of being like Caesar’s wife,” Mr Carter told employees of the troubled intelligence agency that his Administration has been trvuing to rebuild. Headed “There is now a stability in the C.I.A. there have been too many shocks, too many rapid changes in the past. But the policies that have now been established . . . will give you a much surer sense of what the future will bnring.” —W ashington. Victim dies

One of four pensioners suffering from Botulism, a form of food poisoning, contracted from a tin of salmon has died in hospital in Birmingham. The dead man’s wife, his brother, and his brother’s wife are still in a critical condition. —London. Hua attack The Chinese Communist Party chairman (Mr Hua Kuo-fe g), on an historic visit to Europe, has delivered a sharp and barely disguised attack on the Soviet Union, warning that some big Powers were trying to dominate the whole globe. Speaking at a banquet given in his honour by President Nicolae Ceausescu, of Rumania, Mr Hua said: “In Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe, imperialism and hegemonism are spreading out their hands all over to infiltrate, undermine, and to commit aggression and expansion against some countries.” Hegemonism is the Chinese description of domination by the Soviet Union. —Bucharest.