Cable Briefs

Press, 1 November 1979, Page 6

Cable Briefs

estuanl Hita The Chinese leader, Mr Hua Guofeng. has charged that the Soviet Union poses a global threat to peace, and has praised the British Prime Minister (Mrs Margaret Thatcher) for her warnings about Moscow's military build-up. In the strongest speech of his West Europea' tour, the Chinese Communist Party chairman denounced the Kremlin for “expansion and aggression,” arid showed support for a well-armed West. His: speech, at a dinner in 10 Downing Street, did not mention the Soviet Union by name. But he made his tar-) get quite clear by referring! repeatedly to “the hegemon-) lists” — Peking's code-word) for Moscow. — London. | Limit augers A new British Government plan to lirrfi t immigration into Britain has been denounced as racial discrimination -by Opposition politicans and immigrant or- ! gunisations. The proposal, announced by the Home Secretary (Mr William Whitelaw). will prevent husbands and fiances from settling in Britain unless the women) 'concerned were born there. Mr Whitelaw told a meeting) of ruling Conservative Partv) Parliamentarians that his; plan would counter abuses; of Britain’s immigration sys-' item through the arranged-; marriages market. Its main i effect will be to restrict the! number of Asian men allowed automatic entry into Britain. — London. Six die in storm

A fierce pre-winter storm pelted the southern Great Plains of the United States with heavy snow, rain, galeforce winds, and tornadoes, ! yesterday, killing six people and injuring about a dozen others. The storm, stretching across parts of Nebraska. Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, brought enough snow to Colorado to open a s l! resort, resulted in at least four traffic deaths, and caused power failures and some heavy wind dam- : age. — New York.

Mrs Mussolini dead Rachele Mussolini, widow of the fascist dictator, Benjito i Mussolini who ruled Italy. She was 89. She died I died at her home near Forli. ; Italy. She was 89 she died of heart failure. She had been in declining health since early this year. Benito Mussolini was executed bypartisans in April. 1945. His bodv and that of his mistress, Claretta Petacci, were hung up by the heels in a Milan square. His widow, 'called Donna Rachele, never disavowed her husband's record and lived in a house filled with mementoes of his 21-year rule. She married Benito Mussolini in 1915 and with him had five children, three of whom survived. — Rome.