Cable briefs
Helicopter disaster All 13 men aboard a twinengined helicopter bringing workers ashore from gas rigs off eastern England were believed to have died when it plunged into the sea. The crash was the worst involving a British helicopter and an oil company official said it seemed to have been caused by “something catastrophic.” A Royal Air Force spokesman said the chance of finding any survivors was “nil". — London. Boy defects The parents of a runaway Ukrainian schoolboy were apprently pressured to return to Moscow without him to avoid a custody trial that would focus on “repression" in the Soviet Union, according to the boy’s lawyer. Julian Kulas, lawyer for 13-year-old Walter Polovchak. said he believed Soviet officials were behind the abrupt departure of the boy's parents, Michael and Anna Polovchak. They left the United States this week without saying goodbye to Walter and flew back to Moscow, where they were met at the airport by a Soviet Foreign Ministry official. — Chicago. New initiative? The Israeli Prime Minister. Menachem Begin, has asked to meet the Egyptian President, Anwar Sadat, in Alexandria on August 24-25, the “Yedioth Ahronoth” newspaper has reported. The newspaper said Mr Begin would have talks which could set the stage for discussions on Palestinian autonomy. — Tel Aviv. Fleeing Iran An Iranian Navy plane carrying army staff and their familites has landed in Oman despite being refused permission to do so, official Omani sources said. It was reported that the plane had 13 people on board, including . three crew. Meanwhile Teheran radio said the Iranian Prime Minister, Mohammad Javad Bahonar, had presented a 22-member cabinet list to the Majlis (Parliament) for its approval. — London. Reporter shot An American woman journalist shot in the head by thieves in Nairobi is in a critical condition in a hospital intensive care unit, according to the United States Embassy there. Emily Driscoll' a Washington-based journalist on the staff of the United States International Communications Agency, was still unconscious at Nairobi Hospital. — Nairobi.
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Press, 15 August 1981, Page 8
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