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Press, 5 September 1981, Page 8

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‘Spy’ arrested Soviet counter-espionage agents have arrested a Russian and accused him of spying for the United States Central Intelligence Agency, the Government newspaper, “Izvestia.” has reported. A brief official announcement named the man as E. A. Kapustin and said he worked at a Moscow factory until he was arrested by the K.G.B. security police. The report said the. K.G.B. seized from him espionage plans, ciphers, instructions for maintaining undercover contacts, and other materials documenting the spying activities 0f,C.1.A. agents in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.—Moscow. Cuban denial Cuba has officially denied that Cuban advisers are in El Salvador. A Government statement published in - the Communist Party official newspaper “Granma” said "categorically” that there ; had never been and there was not at present a single military or civilian adviser from Cuba with the revolutionary forces in El Salvador. The statement said the assertion that some Soviet arms received by Cuba were redistributed in ' Central .America was “an absolute, 100 per cent, lie.”—Havana. meet z Three Kampuchean resistance leaders opened their first formal meeting in Singapore yesterday to lay the groundwork for a political union aimed at strengthening their compaign to oust the Hanoi-backed regime in Phnom Penh. The former Head of State, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, an anti-Com-munist leader, Son Sann, and a Khmer Rouge leader, Khieu Samphan, have before them a draft declaration outlining their shared aims. The three men, with divergent political views, have been meeting separately since arriving this week for their first attempt to map out a joint strategy to. oust an estimated 200,000 Vietnamese troops from Kampu-chea-Singapore. Typhoon fades Tyhoon Agnes fizzled out over the Sea of Japan yesterday after killing more than 70 people as it carved a trail of destruction through parts of South Korea and eastern China. Officials in South Korea’s southern and eastern coastal belt, battered by the typhoon for two days, said 58 people were killed apd 29 were missing. Landslides, floods, and other accidents caused by Agnes injured 38 people and property damage was estimated at more than $25 million.—Seoul. Baby fed opium A 10-month-old boy is in a critical condition after being fed opium by his parents, doctors have said in Eugene, Oregon. The baby was rushed to hospital by his parents, Linda Clark, aged 21, and Scott Brady, aged 24, because he had stopped breathing. They confessed to giving him a pellet of opium when they could not quiet him. Doctors are not optimistic about his survival because of possible brain damage. Legal action is being considered against the parents.— Eugene. Bombs defused Six bombs have been found near the Soviet mission to the United Nations. Two firebombs were discovered planted under cars near the mission on Manhattan’s east side and were defused. Four more bombs were later found in the area, and a bomb squad was sent to deal with them. A man claiming to be a member of the extremist Jewish Defence League telephoned a New York newspaper to say he had planted the bombs.— New York.