Cable Briefs

Press, 6 May 1980, Page 8

Cable Briefs

Fighting continues Fighting between Iranian Government troops and Kurdish autonomists continued yesterday in the western city of Sanandaj, despite a six-hour truce called by the army , so that it could remove the wounded and dead who have been lying in the streets for days. Each side blamed the other for violating the truce, and their cas- ■ ualty reports conflicted. The army said 20 soldiers were injured when Kurdish guerrillas fired on troops trying ' to remove bodies and bring aid to the city’s people. A Kurdish source said 12 Revolutionary Guards and two guerrillas were killed in fighting ■■ after the army and the guards violated the truce.—Teheran. Blacks arrested About 15 people were arrested after incidents between demonstrating students and police at the Turfloop University for blacks, at Pietersburg, north-east of Johannesburg, the newspaper, “Sunday Post,” has reported. The students had disturbed ceremonies marking the 21st anniversary? of the university’s founding. Carrying placards declaring opposition to segregation in education and apartheid generally, they dumped rubbish on the ceremonial site and interrupted a show of traditional dancing arranged for invited guests, — Johannesburg. , Jews penned in ; Israeli troops are keeping' Jewish settlers penned in to ‘ i forestall any rampage of : vengeance for the killing of 1 : five Jews in the Arab town :of Hebron. Soldiers were c i posted at the gateways into < Kiryat Arba, the big Jewish j settlement that stands on < the outskirts of Hebron and i residents were barred from £ leaving without good rea- c | sons. Demands for retribu-1 tion have been loudly ex- j I pressed in Israel since the ambush which authorities j ' described as the deadliest \ and best planned attack ever 5 mounted by Palestinians on r , the occupied West Bank. — ' Jerusalem. t Feud in open i ■ The former American Sec- ■ retary of State, Cyrus c

' Vance, who resigned over the aborted rescue mission ’in Iran, says the White House National Security Adviser should stop making foreign policy. In an interview with the “Observer” in London, Mr Vance brought his well-known battle with Zbigniew Brzezinski; into the open, but without mentioning the presidential adviser by name. “The National Security Adviser should act as a co-or-dinator of various views. But he should Jnot be the one who makes foreign policy or who expresses foreign policy to the public. That is the task of the President and the Secretary of State.” — London. Village protest Nuclear-power opponents with pigs, goats, and chickens have begun building a wooden hut for an “antiatom village” to prevent testdrilling at a planned nuclear waste dump site in Gorleben, northern Germany. Some 3000 anti-nuclear demonstrators occupied a spot in the village where a second Shaft is to be drilled to test whether the site is suitable for the dump. The North Rhine - Westphalia state premier (Mr Ernst Albrecht) was quoted in a newspaper interview as saying the police would stand aside until the owners — the German Society for Reprocessing Nuclear Fuel—asked for the ■ site to be cleared.— Gorleben.