Cable Briefs

Press, 7 October 1980, Page 8

Cable Briefs

i- Ship still ablaze lg More than 500 people 6 f o r c e d to abandon a t he cruise ts liner Prinsendam because of r . fire at the week-end have begun returning home as the 4 luxury ship, burning from bow to stern, drifted off the Alaska coast. 'The United e States Coast Guard said that ,g the American tanker Wil- !_ liamsburgh had arrived in the port of Valdez, east of Anchorage, carrying about n 388 people. The Coast Guard ’■ cutter Boutwell took 81 s others to Sitka, Alaska. Ano other 62 people from the is liner had already reached Sitka, and the Coast Guard o and the Prinsendam’s owner, Hol land-America Lines, said they believed everyone was safe. — Juneau, Alaska. Police, youths clash Policemen have clashed i with young demonstrators i demanding independent ‘‘pop 1 culture” centres in the Swiss 1 cities of Zurich and Lau- t sanne, and arrested 42 1 people in Lausanne after a i t street battle. The police in d Zurich, where almast-weekly 1 n demonstrations started at I e the end of May, reported < e that a plain-clothes inspector < was thrown into a river, j e Windows of stores and cars ) e in the main shopping quar- I e ter were smashed. In Lau- i g sanne, the only French- ] - speaking Swiss city to have s been hit by violent youth a demonstrations, the police s t used tear-gas and water q r hoses against stone-and t - bottle-throwing rioters, and c - three policemen were in- i 1 jured. —Lausanne. s e r Aust, drought tcorse c J The drought in New South . Wales had worsened drama- j tically in the last few days, f . the state Agriculture Minis- c J ter (Mr Jack Hallam) has a said. He said the wheat | crop, once expected to top ~ seven million tonnes, had ? withered to just two’ million, ® and the state’s farmers were ? looking at losses that al- ■?' ready totalled $660 million. D — Sydney. t( Sellers 9 will feud h< A bitter family feud has hi broken out over the estimat- Z: ed s4m fortune of the actor il Peter ellers. The London tl “Sundav Mirror” said that B: Mr Sellers changed his will ht six months before he died from a heart attack in July w and left virtually everything Ti to his widow, Lvnne Fred- m erick. Now his three child- di ren — Michael, aged 26, and za Sarah, aged 22, from his w first marriage, and Britt Ek- lis land’s 15-year-old daughter th Victoria — will contest the w; will. “The thought of a com- itj plex legal battle is horrendous,” Miss Frederick te said. “It is disrespectful to las Peter’s memory, and if he in knew this was hanpening he pc would be deeply hurt. Peter ha felt the children deserted an him years ago." —London, iby