Cable Briefs

Press, 17 July 1980, Page 6

Cable Briefs

Plot thwarted Israeli military sources have reported that security men have thwarted an assassination plot against the Agriculture Minister (Mr Ariel Sharon), the Cabinet’s most vociferous champion of Jewish settlement on occupied Arab land. The plot was smashed with the arrest of four Palestinian guerrillas from Gaza who had taken jobs at Mr Sharon’s large farm in southern Israel. The four had been recruited by the . Palestine Liberation Organisation and provided with arms and money, the sources said.—-Tel Aviv.

Policemen shot Five policemen were shot and wounded, and the police cordoned off a mostly back area of north-western Miami as bands of rock and bottlethrowing youths roamed the streets of the same neighbourhood scarred by ■ deadly race riots two months ago. The violence was touched off when the’Dade County Police tried to apprehend two robbery suspects at a housing project in Liberty City. Two of the officers who were shot are white. —Miami. ’ *S.A. raid repelled The Angolan Government has reported that it repelled a South African military raid across its southern border with Namibia (SouthWest Africa), killing five South African soldiers. The Angolan . Defence Ministry said that South Africans attacked the border town of Kalai during the week-end. The Angolan news agency, quoted the ministry as saying that South African 'troops were being reinforced in the Namibian position of Riintu, across from Kalai, and a new South African attack Was expected, at any moment—Lisbon. Pol Pot review The Australian Cabinet has reaffirmed its recognition of the ousted Pol Pot regime in Kampuchea, but the matter will be kept under review. The Foreign Affairs Minister ' (Mr Andrew Peacock) said this after a report of bitter differences between him and the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) on the issue. According to the “Sydney Morning. Herald,” Mr Fraser was furious at Mr Peacock’s remarks in a television interview at the week-end that he favoured derecognition of the Pol Pot regime, and would seek to persuade Mr Fraser about it.—Canberra.

Talks fail Egyptian and Israeli delegates have ended three days of almost fruitless talks about Palestinian autonomy by arguing in public over the status of Jerusalem. The latest round in the long negotiations closed just as it began, with a dispute between the senior delegates of the two countries in front of journalists, and an embarrased United States delegate. The two sides reported that the committee-level meeting had advanced no further than discussing what to put on the agenda of a future meeting of legal experts. After reviewing more than 20 possible agenda items, the delegates were able to agree on only three subjects for the meeting.—Cairo. *U.S. ready 9

The United States has told its North- Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies it is ready to get on with preliminary talks with the Soviet Union on limiting European-based nuclear missiles. But it said it would be a formidable task to prepare for the negotiations. ;®The American Deputy ? Secretary of State (Mr Warren Christopher) told a press conference he wanted to emphasise “that the United States wants to get on with it. We will not be dilatory.”—Brussels.