Cable Briefs

Press, 6 October 1980, Page 6

Cable Briefs

Kennedy fined

David Kennedy, the 23-year-old son of the late Senator Robert Kennedy, has been fined $3BO — the standard penalty for first offenders — after pleading guilty to drunken driving. Kennedy was arrested on July 27 after driving on the wrong side of a Sacramento street and running through a stop sign, the police said. Kennedy has been living since early this year in the California state capital, where he underwent three months of drug rehabilitation therapy. — Sacramento. New President chosen Argentina’s military junta has chosen the former Army commander, General Roberto Eduardo Viola, to succeed President Horge Videla next March, the domestic news agency, Noticias Argentinas, has reported. General Viola, aged 55, is a close friend of President Videla and like him is considered by diplomatic observers to be among the “moderates” in the ruling military hierarchy. — Buenos Aires. Palestinian blast Several people were wounded, some seriously, in a blast apparently set off by Palestinian guerrillas outside a post office in a suburb of Tel Aviv yesterday, police sources have said. The sources said four people, including women, were wounded in the explosion in the suburb of Givatayim. Israel Armed Forces Radio said two of the wounded later died of their injuries. No further details were immediately available. — Tel Aviv. Ex-leader leaves The former Bolivian President, Mrs Lidia Gueiler. who was ousted in a military coup in July, has left La Paz, eyewitnesses have said. Passengers at El Alto Inter-1 national Airport saw . Mrs Gueiler boarding a Lufthansa airliner bound for Frankfurt. Mrs Gueiler took refuge in the Vatican Embassy on July 1" after the armed forces seized power in Bolivia’s 189th coup d’etat. — La Paz. Gadiffi “schizophrenic' The Libvan leader, Muammar Gadaffi, suffers from schizophrenia, . a hereditary' illness in his family, the Eg-1 yptian President (Nir Anwarj Sadat) has said in a news-: paper interview. Tne Libyan! leader’s illness had been: most apparent during talks; with him in August, 1972, Mr Sadat told the Italian weekly, “Domenica Del Corriere.” “It was while speaking with Gadaffi that I noticed he had a split personality. He found it very difficult to hide his second per‘sonality,” he said. — Cairo.