Cable Briefs

Press, 16 April 1980, Page 8

Cable Briefs

‘Pirate’’ trial The Australian police have smashed a multi-million-dol-lar illegal recording operation which sold “pirate” records to 15 countries, a court has been told. Performances or broadcasts of such groups as the Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, or Pink Floyd were recorded in the United States and records made from the tapes at a factory in Perth, the Perth court has heard. Charles O’Halloran, aged 28, was charged with 59 counts of selling recordings in breach of the Copyright Act, after months of intensive police inquiries. — Perth. Chad fighting

Fierce fighting continues in Ndjamena the Chad capital, despite continued attempts to introduce a ceasefire, but reports from for-eign-controlled medical centres say the number of daily casualties in the fighting has dropped. The still-incomplete Ceasefire Control Commission has been trying to meet the Defence Minister (Mr Hissene Habre), whose Armed Forces of the North are now in their fourth] week of civil war against the People’s Armed Forces, of President Goukouni Wed-| deye, but it was unclear, whether they had succeeded, — Paris.

Beaton will Sir Cecil Beaton, photographer of royalty and international celebrity, left an oil' painting to the former film’ actress, Greta Garbo, in his $1.3 million will, published this week. It was a final romantic gesture for Sir Cecil. According to his published diaries, he proposed unsuccessfully several times to the Swedish-born actress and then pledged to remain a bachelor. Sir Cecil died on January 18, aged 76; — London. Gandhi guard The security guard around the Indian Prime Minister (Mns Indira Gandhi) has been intensified, in the wake of Monday’s unsuccessful knife attack on her. A 37-year-old textile worker who threw a spring-blade knife at the Prime Minister as she left! Parliament House has been charged, with attempted murder. The “Indian Express”, newspaper said the man charged, named by the ! police as Ram Bui Chand Lalwani, from Baroda, had no political connections. — New Delhi. Acropolis protected Greece has taken a series of measures to protect monuments on the . Acropolis, dating back 25 centuries, from pollution and decay. The Ministry of Culture and Sciences said a municipal gas plant near the Acropolis, described by offi-j rials as a source of air pol- ■ ution, would be removed. It rad also been agreed to re- 1 : site a number of factories : considered to be contributing ( :o the highly-polluted airli ever the Greek capital, j Athens. The Greek Govern- 1 ’ nent had already decided to i ■emove all marble statues | rom the Acropolis and I; dace them in a museum to 1 ;ave them from pollution. —\ Athens. If