Arms sales talks on attain

Press, 7 December 1978, Page 9

Arms sales talks on attain

! NZPA-Reuter Mexico City i The United States and the Soviet Union have resumed negotiations on ways of restraining world conventional a-ms sales. The 10-day meeting, the fourth in a series that began in Washington last year, is aimed at establishing a framework for restraint in conventional arms sales. It is being held at senior officials level. On the eve of the conference, the Mexican President (Mr Jose Lopez Portillo) met the heads of both delegations and appealed to them to play a big role in promoting world peace. He said it was absurd that developing countries last yea spent 57500 M in purchases of conventional arms instead of channelling the money to improving the way their j people lived.

{Sect pay-out? Families of the more than 900 members of the People’s Temple sect who died in the Jonestown, Guyana, mass murder-suicide, may share ;SIM under a court petition made public in San Fran- ! cisco. Four surviving directI ors of the sect have voted to dissolve the organisation and have petitioned the California Superior Court to dispose of sect funds totalling SIM. Their petition says they want to use the money for funeral expenses and to distribute the Church’s assets to the families of the 'dead. — San Francisco.