Cable Briefs

Press, 28 March 1980, Page 6

Cable Briefs

Buses bombed Arab guerrillas have ambushed four Israeli buses, with no passengers aboard, - outside the village of Kfar Abud on the Israeli-occupied West Bank, military sources have said. There 'were no casualties, and the guerrillas escaped. The Arab drivers were released before the guerrillas destroyed the buses with petrolbombs.—Tel Aviv. Oil-price cut Declining .United States demand and high w’orld in-t ; ventories have prompted * Venezuela? to cut prices for ' heavy industrial fuel oils by, as much as $2.12 a barrel t the Energy Minister (Mr Humberto Calderon Berti) has said, confirming published reports of the reductions, which came after a yearlong price spiral.—Caracas, More U.S. cuts

The White House has. disclosed that President Carter! intends to cut the 1981 Budget by more than the SUSI3,OOO million he proposed when he unveiled his anti-inflation programme almost two weeks ago. The president’s press secretary, Jody Powell, indicated that the cuts would now total about SUSI6,OOO million bringing Mr Carter’s plans much ■ closer to the $U517,400 million cut voted by the House of Representatives Budget Committee and to a balanced Budget in 1981.—Washington. Gunman surrenders An Irish Republican Army gunman who had threatened to blow himself up along with three hostages, has surrendered to policemen and troops after a 24-hour siege: at Dundalk, Irish Republic, A wanted guerrilla, Bernard McGinn, aged 22, who had been on the run since he; jumped bail last year, gave himself up peacefully and was taken away to begin a! 10-year prison sentence. A few hours earlier he had released .two of his hostages — his" cousin, Mrs O’Reilly, and her two-year-old daughter ( Brona.—Dublin,

Professor shot Gunmen have killed Pro? lessor Mario Figueroa of San Carlos University, machine-gunning him from a motor-cycle as he drove to work. He was the second 1 professor at San Carlos, in I Guatemala City, assassinated: in three days. The university,! council called for the resign nation of jhe Interior Minis-: ter (Mr Donaldo Alverexj Ruiz) and the heads of theii police and special police: farces for failing to halt the: violence in Guatemala,—XSuatemala City,