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Press, 25 November 1981, Page 8

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£4. blacks vow war The Azanian People’s Organisation, the black South African movement which has been tolerated up to now by the authorities, has declared “total war against white supremacy, oppression and exploitation" because of the death of a former black activist in police custody. A.Z.A.P.O.'s president, Khehlka Mtembu, said that “chances of peaceful change are non-existent" in South Africa, and said that the organisation would “struggle and fight by any and all means" — particularly economic and social — against the system. A.Z.A.P.O.’s move * was sparked off by the death two weeks ago of Isaac Muofhe, who was arrested in the black “homeland" of Venda after an attack on a police station at Sibasa at the end of last month. — Johannesburg

Tax reformer jailed Mogens Glistrup, leader of Denmark’s anti-tax party, has been jailed for four years and fined $683,100 for tax fraud. Glistrup, aged 55, a millionaire lawyer whose Progress Party is the fourth biggest in Parliament, said afterwards that he was the victim of political persecution and planned to appeal. He founded the party in 1972 after becoming famous on television for a programme ridiculing Denmark's tax system. He said he paid no tax on his huge earnings by manipulating the rules. — Copenhagen Eviction retrial The Danby family, evicted from their Yorkshire home after 16 years when the solicitor who sold them the cottage insisted on the right to buy it back at the original price, are to have their case retried. Three Court of Appeal judges yesterday upheld an appeal by Tom Danby against a High Court ruling in 1979 which allowed the solicitor, Richard Langdale, to buy back the cottage for its 1965 price of SNZ6O42. The cottage in Elloughton, Humberside, where Mr Danby, aged 43, a self-em-ployed joiner and builder, lived with his wife, Patricia, and three children until their eviction in September, may now be worth up to $NZ57,000. — London

Trick mines Mines looking like toy fish and birds have blown off the feet of at least 14 young men during the last week in an area of northern Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, the Govenrnment-controlled Associated Press of Pakistan has reported. The victims were among more than 20 people wounded by anti-per-sonnel mines dropped by Afghan helicopter gunships in Parachinar tribal administrative agency on November 16 and 17, the agency said in a despatch from the area. Pakistani authorities had reported that the gunships also attacked three Afghan refugee camps with machinegun fire and rockets killing one Afghan woman, 12 other refugees and two Pakistani soldiers. — Islamabad Brady goes home The White House press secretary, James Brady, left hospital for home yesterday eight months after a bullet fired during an assassination attempt on President Reagan left him partially paralysed through brain damage. Aided by his wife, Sarah, and with a special walking cane, Mr Brady hobbled out of George Washington Hospital where he was taken after the

March 30 shooting. His injury robbed him of a fifth of his brain and the use of his left arm. Mr Brady, who is 41. survived a wound his doctors say would have been fatal in eight out of 10 cases. He had three serious operations. He will still require daily hospital treatment. — Washington Second trial

The retrial of a 47-year-old woman who was convicted of murdering her husband with an axe while he slept has begun in the Supreme Court in Adelaide. The woman, whose name was again suppressed. was found guilty by a Supreme Court jury earlier this year of murder but the sentence was quashed by the Court of Criminal Appeal last month and a new trial ordered. The woman killed her husband after she learned he had been having sexual relations with their daughters. — Adelaide

Cruelty conviction A research at the Maryland Institute for Behavioural Research, Dr Edward Taub, has been convicted of six counts of cruelty to animals — monkeys used in research at his Silver Spring laboratory — and fined SUS3OOO. ’ Some of the animals had chewed away part of their own limbs, the police said. Dr Taub has said his research, which involved cutting nerves of the animals, could lead to better understanding of such diseases as arthritis, and the monkeys could feel no pain. "To try out procedures on humans that have not first ■ been tested on animals is the height of inhumanity," he said. He will appeal. — Baltimore. Gay aid outcry The controversial leader of the Greater London Council. Ken Livingstone, has hit new strife with a row over a bid by Left-wing colleagues to grant SNZ4S6(i to a youth club for homosexuals. Opponents described the plan as “disgraceful,” and said it could be seen as condoning an illegal activity. The legal age limit for 'homosexual activity between consenting,} males in Britain is 21. The Labour militant Mr Livingstone has rarely been out of the headlines since his election earlier this year, with disputes over increasing rates to pay for bus and train fare cuts, and remarks seen as sympathetic to the Irish Republican Army. — London. Spanish drought Spain’s worst drought of the century has caused about $1.5 billion worth of crop damage, according to the Agriculture Minister (Mr Jaime Lamo de Espinosa). He told the Barcelona daily “El Noticiero Universal" that grain, livestock and olives, produced in the worst hit areas of Extremadura, Andalusia, central Spain and the Ebro and Duero valleys, had suffered most. Madrid. Neutron resolution A draft United Nations resolution calling for a treaty banning the -neutron bomb was approved yesterday by a General Assembly committee, but by only a little over half the vote. 1 most measures receive. Tht proposal, sponsored by Vietnam, Czechoslovakia, Cuba’ and several other Eastern Bloc countries, says the neu-tron-weapon "escalates the nuclear arms race and significantly lowers the thresholc to nuclear war.” — /New York. {