Cable Briefs

Press, 7 November 1978, Page 8

Cable Briefs

7 eng visit J The Chinese Vice-Premier J (Mr Teng Hsiao-ping) is due Jto meet the Thai Prime Minister (Mr Kriangsak Chamanand) for talks expected to centre on the Vietnam-Cam-bodia border war and! ' worsening relations between 1 Vietnam and China. The ebullient Chinese leader arrived at the week-end to a rousing welcome for a fourday official visit before going on to Malaysia and} Singapore. “The purpose of! |our present visit is to | strengthen and develop the} i traditional friendship be-( jtween our two peoples and I I the co-operation between our I ! two governments and to; i learn about and benefit from (the experiences of the Thai ,| people in building up their I country.” — Bangkok. I Second ’quake ; The second earthquake in I a day has hit the Solomon ' jlslands area in the south} | Pacific Ocean. A resident of (Honiara said that the earth- | quake struck at 11.05 a.m. [yesterday less than 24 hours .after a similar earthquake. (The resident said there had ibeen no reports of damage lor injuries. The United (States Geological Survey has (warned that earthquake < (activity in the region is continuing. — Honiara. I Nine die in fire At least nine people have been killed in a hotel fire officials suspected was started by an arsonist in the ; north-eastern Pennsylvania 1 community of Homesdale. I The police first reported that lat least 12 people died in the blaze at the nineteenthcentury Allen Motor Inn, but the county coroner (Mr Wayne Jennings) said nine bodies were found and five or six other people were still missing. Mr Jennings said that a fire on October 5 in the hotel, like the latest one started under a stairwell, and that he advised months ago against housing jurors there because he felt the hotel was a fire-i (trap. — Homesdale. i Chairman home | Mr Rodolfo Zanlungo, kidnapped chairman of theji ! World Chess Olympiadj; I Organising Committee, has; j escaped from his captors (i ;and returned home, the|‘ I police have said in Buenos; Aires. Mr Zanlungo was; snatched in central Buenos 11 Aires eight days before the Olympiad opened in the Argentinian capital on October 18. He 'managed to escape from the boot of a car in i which his kidnappers were transporting him in the east central province of Santa Fe : early on Saturday, a police communique said. — Buenos Aires. q I | Uranium stopped I The United States will ' halt the sale to South Africa (of enriched uranium for ex-; ; perimental purposes because j (Pretoria refuses to sign the; (nuclear non-proliferation ( ■ treaty. Under a joint agree- i Iment several years ago, the) | United States has supplied i I enriched uranium for the ex-1 perimental reactor, Safari I One, at Plindaba 20km out-,: side Pretoria. — Washing- ( ton. Twelve executed Twelve men. including a■ former North Yemeni Minis-' ter, have been executed' within hours of being con- i victed of taking part in an( abortive coup last month. A I ! 13th person was given life I imprisonment by a Supreme ; State Security Court. This}: brought to 21 the number of people executed for their al- q leged involvement in the attempt to overthrow the ( ' North Yemeni President (Mr I Ali Abdullah Saleh). —j [Sanaa. J