Cable Briefs

Press, 14 July 1980, Page 6

Cable Briefs

I . Concession to nomen Saudi Arabian women will be allowed o work for the Government for the first time in the history of the ! country. A Civil Service (Board official said that a : project worked out with the I director-general of girls’ I education would enat'T (women to work as clerk-'. 1 translators, and typists in an; (office building to be used; (only by female staff. The. (employment of women., i would be strictly within the tenets of Islamic law and: Arab traditions, he said. He added that Governmen de-' partments were being con-. tacted in the hope that they inigh emplox some women. — Jeddah. Scientists freed Libya has released sixi West . German geologists! after holding them captive 1 for four months, a Bonn 1 Foreign Ministry spokesman} has said. He said they were; flying home accompanied by 1 the West German ambassador to Libya and several: officials from Bonn. The! scientists, who belonged to,' the West German Research) Institute, were detained with a Sudanese colleague and two Egyptian drivers on!March 3 while charting a, geological map in the area!, bordered by Libya. Egypt, and Sudan. They were ac-. cused of violating Libvan territory, but were never formally charged. — Bonn.

Peaceful march The police and troop: were out in force throughou ; Northern Ireland at th( . ; week-end as tens of thou , sands of Loyalists look par J in marches to celebrate the 1290th anniversary of th< Battle of the Boyne in whicl J the Protestant forces of Wil- > liam of Orange defeated the Catholic army of James 11. I Shots were fired and cars . overturned in East Belfast during Friday night local . time (Saturday morning N2 time), but as 'he last march , ended in Belfast the next day the security forces reported that the day hac passed off peacefully everywhere in the province. — Belfast. The biter bit A drug smuggler on the run has offered a' two million rial ($28,500) reward for the assassination of the roving Islamic judge, Sadeq Khalkhali, the newspaper, “Islamic has reported. quoting a source in i the judge’s anti-narcotics task force. A reward of 500,000 rials ($7000) for the assassination of any of his aides was also said to have been offered by the smuggler at the recent funeral of one of his friends condemned to death by the judge. Since he was appointed head of the anti-nar-cotics task force two m'onths ago, Ayatollah Khalkhali has ordered the execution of! nearly 200 people. He also | once said he had assigned a’ hit squad to kill the former! Shah. — Teheran. ‘

Banning order The South African Gov-| emment has issued a three-; year banning order against; Fanyana Mazibuko. secretary! of the Teachers’ Action! Committee in Soweto, the! huge black township near! Johannesburg, an informed, source has said. In another I development a public! spokesman announced in! Cape Town that a black, policeman had been found! strangled to death, his hands! tied to a gymnastics bar. I The banning order on Mr! Mazibuko means he will .not be allowed to attend political meetings, teach or meet more than one person at a! time in his home, other than! his family. The ban report : came amid a fresh outbreak. of anti-apartheid demonstra-' tions over the last week in. various parts of South. Africa. —Johannesburg. | ! Heat toll 382

The Associated Press news agency has estimated that at I least 382 people in 15 states, have died from heat-related ’ causes in the heatwave | sweeping the south-western' United States. The heatwave' was in its twenty-first day; in some areas yesterday. — Houston.