Cable Briefs

Press, 12 July 1980, Page 8

Cable Briefs

Pair charged l p Two of the -illegal immigrants rescued in the Ari- .! zona Desert after 13 comi panions had died in the blaz--1 ing heat have been charged with smuggling the party across the Mexican border. A prosecutor told a Federal magistrate at the arraignment hearing that the pair, one from El Salvador and one from Mexico, might face manslaughter charges later. Nine women and a 13-year-old boy, all from El Salvador, were among those who died in the desert last weekend after wandering about for hours without water and with the temperature hovering on 49 deg. Fourteen were rescued by police and border patrolmen. —Tucson. Homan for Reagan? Ronald Reagan is seriously thinking of naming a woman, the former United : States ambassador to Britain, Anne Armstrong, as his Republican vice-presidential i running mate, political sources have said. The con- ; servative, former Governor t of California is expected to announce his choice next Friday, one day after the ’ Republican Party goes through the formality of ac- 1 claiming him as its 1980 j presidential nominee. No , woman has been the vice- ' presidential nominee of a 1 main American party, al- i though presidential candi- < dates routinely claim that ( the names they have under ' consideration include women. * —Detroit. < bales up t American retail sales rose £ by more than SUSIOOO mil- ( lion, or 1.5 per-cent, in June ' after four consecutive t months of decline, the Commerce Department has said, f The biggest increase came in i car sales which were up by 1 about SUSSOO million, nearly f 4 per cent, after several ( months of decline. Although the figures suggest an easing f of the economic slump f which economists say has J gripped the nation since s January, a Commerce De- I partment spokesman said it t was unwise to derive much I encouragement from one month’s figures — Washing-It ton. Ally Pally gutted Fire has destroyed most of the main hall of Alexandra Palace in north London, from which the world’s first I television broadcasts were made in 1936. The palace, a London landmark known as the Ally Pally, was built in 1875 as an entertainment complex and is still used for; conferences. A jazz festival; was scheduled in the main! hall for this week-end. — London. Copyrights sold The United States Government has sold the Eng-lish-language rights to Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” (my struggle) to an American publisher, Houghton Mifflin, i for SUS4O,OOO, an official I has said. The copyright ofj the diary of Joseph Goeb-j bels, Hitler’s Propaganda, Minister, went to Doubleday j for SUSSOO. Bruno Ristau,' head of the Justice Depart-: ment’s foreign litigation di-; vision, said the copyrights i were among German assets I seized by the United States; during or after World War ; Two. The copyrights have 14 i years to run. — Washington. ! I Rival drops out , The Bolivian Leftist presi-l dential candidate, Hernan I Siles Zuazo, appears assured, of victory after the candi--date who came in second an-1 nounced he was dropping; out of the race. “To block: Dr Siles Zuazo . . . from! assuming control of the; Government would be; against the democratic pro-, cess of the country, and: against the people who want: a stable, constitutional gov-| ernment,” a former Bolivian < President. Victor Paz Estens-j soro, said in announcing he would not opnose Mr Siles I Zuazo when Congress meets, in August 4 to choose the new President. Because Mr Siles Zuazo did not capture a majority of the popular, vote, the election, under Bolivian law, must be decided, by Congress. — La Paz, j