Cable Briefs

Press, 15 July 1980, Page 8

Cable Briefs

Interim President 01 e- Botswana s '"ice-president at (Mr Quett Masire), who fee's, came interim president on to! the death of Sir Seretsg n-Khama, is a low-profile politician who was a long-time ii " associate of the late presj. ic dent and was called hj 5 y- “twin" in political views. Mr ?il Masire was at Sir Seretse’s ' a side when the final terms of n " independence were negotiated in London more than S" 13 years ago, and has been in his shadow since. Mr Ma,n. sire, aged 53. largely shares ,j ; Sir Seretse’s democratic ! i ideas. If he is named president in his own right when Parliament meets to choose Sir Seretse’s definitive suc- * cessor. he is expected to follow. at least initially, the ..same path of development, j —Gaborone. 10 ~ . . rent mist named The Soviet K.G.B. has wared a l.enningrad feminist leader. Tatiana Mamonova, : that she must either leave the Soviet Union within a few days or answer for her. I activities to the authorities, dissident sources have said. 'Mrs Mamonova in 1979 published the almanac, “Women land Russia, ’’ marking the ’• beginning of a feminist y movement in the Soviet :t i Union, and has also publisher ed “Rossianka,” an extension ’(to the almanac, in France. She has said that the K.G.B. r .has warned her and mem- '■ bers of her editorial staff several times about the con- ' sequences of any future distribution of the feminist rey'view in the Soviet Union.' — "Moscow. Shot stops trip A shot accidentally fired - by a security guard caused f’the West German Devel- ; opment Aid Minister (Mr , j Rainer Offergeld) to postjpone an eight-day African | trip when the bullet punctured a fuel tank of his Air {Force plane, a Defence Min- | istry spokesman said. GovemI ment sources said the inj cident caused Mr Offerg.eld’s I departure to be postponed because no spare aircraft t was available. The incident • occurred at Bonn Airport as I eight security men checked s|the Boeing 707 before Mr ■ (Offergeld and 40 Ministerial ■(officials and reporters went ion board. For some reason a J pistol carried by one of the ! guards went off. The bullet (went into the floor of the I passenger compartment and ’■penetrated a fuel (tank. — Bonn. j ,'Vo report ( The Singapore Defence . Ministry has decided not to (release the findings of an 1 official investigation on allegations that a Singapore (naval boat had abandoned 18 1 Vietnamese refugees it found ! floundering. in the South (China Sea, a ’ Government (spokesman has said. He (gave no reasons for the (decision and also declined to (say whether any action (would be taken against (naval officers involved -in > the incident. The naval vessel Freedom was accused of (abandoning the refugees after their wooden vessel I broke up and sank on May 5. Sixteen of the refugees were picked up by passing vessels but a three-year-.old girl and her mother (drowned. — Singapore. ! Israeli oil find Vast, quantities of oilbearing shale have been discovered in the Negev Desert in south Israel, the (Israeli daily “Maariv” has (reported. Experts have estii mated that the discovery I will meet Israel’s oil needs (until well into the next cen;tury. — Jerusalem.