Cable Briefs

Press, 13 February 1981, Page 6

Cable Briefs

Fish talks fail The latest attempt to reach agreement on a ' Common Market fisheries , policy failed early yesterday,. Ministers from the 10 E.E.C, States left Brussels after,< three days of talks appar-f ently no nearer resolving a® key split between and France on fishing? around the Orkney and Shet-K land Isles and in the Irish'! Sea. They made limited? progress on some other fish-« ing issues’ but officials saidf the long search for- as common fisheries policy fon H the 200-mile E.E.C. limit? would not be over until the? Franco-British differences were healed. They will meet again next month., — Brussels. Grain target The Soviet Union, which has suffered crop failures j over two years, will need" record yields to reach’ its J grain production target for 1981, the United States Agriculture Department has said. It said Moscow set a production goal of 236 million tonnes for this year, but this has only been reached , once before with the 1978 bumper crop, — Washington. Poll date set The Israeli Parliament has decided on a June 30 Gener-I al Election that could oust.' Menachem Begin as Prime i Minister and return ths | Labour Party to power. Par- ] liament’s decision, approvedwithout opposition, meant I Israeli’s would go to the | polls nearly five months , ahead of schedule, a change ] forced upon Mr Begin last 1 ? month when his Finance Minister resigned and left him without a majority, ia Parliament. — Jerusalem. ‘Terrorists* guilty A United States Federal Court jury has found .10 suspected members of ths Puerto Rican terrorist group*F.A.L.N., guilty on charges . stemming from bombings, and attempted bombings in the Chicago area. The 10, termed by a prosecutor members of a clandestine army with no regard for the law or human life, were con-1 victed on all counts of se-i ditious conspiracy, armed robbery, interstate trans-; portation of stolen vehicles, and violations of weapons laws. The defendants were not in court after the trial’s' opening last week, when I they disrupted proceedings'] and contended they could j not be tried in United States! courts because they were! prisoners of war in their fight for Puerto Rican independence.—Chicago. Rape suspect leaves A young man who could not be arrested as a rape suspect because he is the 1 son of a diplomat from i Ghana has left the United] States at the request of the 1 State Department, a New York Congressman has said., Manuel Aryee, aged 19, son, of Seth Aryee, an attache at i the -West African nation’s 1 =. & a mission’s custody since his release by New. York police' test week- The young man 1 had been seized when a woman who had been raped at gunpoint on January 23 pointed-him out as her attacker and anotherrape victim ■ subsequently identified him'