Cable Briefs

Press, 10 November 1978, Page 6

Cable Briefs

: Moscow attack The Soviet Union has staged its annual parade of military might through Red Square in Moscow after the Defence Minister (Marshal Dmitry Ustinov) denounced China as a threat to world peace. Addressing hundreds of troops gathered before tite Kremlin leadership to celebrate the 1917 Russian' Revolution, Marshal Ustinov! proclaimed the Soviet 5 Union’s determination to resist “imperialism and its! helpers.”—Moscow. Rockwell dead

The American artist, Norman Rockwell, famed for his folksy cover for the “Saturday Evening Post,” has died. He was 84. Rockwell, who sold his first illustrations to the “Saturday Evening Post” (when he was 22. subsequently painted some 360 ■covers for the magazine. Prayer rejected

■ A special prayer to be ■'used after abortions has : been rejected by the General ‘ Synod of the Church of ■ England, despite the out- ■ spoken support of the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr ■ Donald Coggan) and the majority of lay members. The 55 Bishop of Winchester (Dr ; John Taylor) wrote the prayer in the belief that it 5 would help to strengthen reverence for life, show I proper respect for the dis- ' carded foetus, and also help ' to stem the growth of “irrei sponsible abortions.” The bishops voted 22 to 13 'against the adoption of the prayer, many fearing that it would be misinterpreted as the church giving its unequivocal blessing to abortion.— London. Baby centre The world’s first testtube baby centre is to be set up in Britain. It could mean that hundreds of infertile women will be able to give birth. The centre will be run by the gynaecologist, Patrick Steptoe, and the Cambridge physiologist, Dr Robert Edwards, w’ho pioneered the technique of implanting an (egg into the womb which | brought about the birth in I July of the first test-tube ! baby.—London. Brigadists jailed Two Red Brigades urban | guerrillas have been jailed s for more than nine years for! attempted murder in Milan) and four others have received lesser sentences on ■ charges arising from police j raids on their hide-outs in) (1975. Among them was Cor- - srado Alunni, wanted for the' !kidnap of the former Prime ‘Minister, Aldo Moro, and captured less than two ’ months ago. he was sen-! (fenced to seven years and; one month to add to a 12-! [year term he is already serving. — Milan. Building collapses Some 50 people were be- 5 lieved killed when a hotel) extension being built at a; seaside resort in northern Colombia collapsed yesterday. About 500 Army, Red Cross, police, and civil defence workers scouring the debris for survivors had found 12 bodies, first reports said, while about 20 building site workers were admittted to hospital with serious in-1 juries. — Bogota.