Cable Briefs

Press, 15 April 1980, Page 8

Cable Briefs

Papal plea Pope John Paul, protected by a plexiglass shield, has made a ringing appeal against terrorism in Turin, one of the main battlegrounds of urban guerrilla warfare in Italy. “We must stop terrorism, which does not sleep and has turned this city into one of its rerve centres,” the Pope told a huge crowd in the final rally of his 12-hour visit before he flew back to Rome. Throughout his visit the Pope was encircled by thousands of security guards, many of whom mingled with crowds estimated to number more than a million, people from all over northern Italy. —Turin. Crash toll 54 Fifty-four people were killed, and only four survived when a Brazilian airliner crashed into a hillside near Florianopolis, Brazil, on Sunday. The Transbrasil Boeing 727 was carrying 50 passengers and a crew of eight on a domestic flight from Sao Paulo. It crashed as it approached the southern port in a thunderstorm. Hospital officials said three were not on the danger list, but could " give no other details. Earlier, the officials had said five survivors were in hospital. — Florianopolis. U.S. intake The United States may admit as many as 4000 of the would-be Cuban emigrants crammed in the Peruvian Embassy in Havana, according to sources at the United States interest section of the Swiss Embassy in the Cuban capital. The sources said they had not yet received a figure from Washington, but they were awaiting instructions from the United States State Department on processing and evacuating the Cubans. A State Department official said in Washington last week that the United States would accept its fair share of the would be emigrants, but he indicated that this would be less than half the total. — Havana. Together again The Italian Communist Party chief, Mr Enrico Berlinguer, is in Peking for a visit Both sides are apparently considering a landmark in restoring ties between the Italian and Chinese communist parties. China’s official Communist Party newspaper, the “Peoople’s Daily,” has quoted Mr Berlinguer as saying his trip will mark the formal restoration of relations between the two parties, though they still have their differences. The Italian and Chinese parties broke off relations after the SinoSoviet split in the early 19605. — Peking.