Cable Briefs

Press, 25 February 1980, Page 8

Cable Briefs

Gas forecast Enough gas supplies to last for hundreds of years lie hidden skm to 10km under the Earth’s surface, an American scientist has said. The supplies, if tapped, would make nonsense of all previous estimates of the world’s recoverable gas reserves, Dr Thomas Gold told the Austrian scientific news service, 1.8. F. Dr Gold, director of the Centre for Radiophysics and Space Research at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, said the deep reserves could be found in most areas of the world, but especially near mountain ranges and ocean coasts. — Vienna. Tanker explodes Two crew of the heavilyladen Greek oil tanker, Irene Serenatas, were killed and two others are missing after explosions sent a sheet of blazing oil over 500 sq m of sea near the Greek port of Pylos at the weekend. The tanker was carrying 100,000 ton-s of crude oil. — Athens. Child mutilated Texas policemen responding to a call ' from a babysitter found the heart of a four-year-old girl in a bloodsoaked dish rag beside the child’s body at the week-end. Patricia Ann Frazier,. aged 26, was charged later with murdering her daughter. Autopsy results indicated the child had died when her heart was ripped from her body. The police have found no motive for the murder. —Wichita Falls. 200,000 homeless

Widespread floods have made about 200.000 people homeless in seven Brazilian states over' the ’ last few days, Government officials have said. The worst-affect-ed state was Goias, where 100,000 people were without shelter, officials said. — Rio Ide Janeiro.