Cable briefs

Press, 19 April 1982, Page 8

Cable briefs

Hinckley claim John Hinckley has said he was not aiming' at President Reagan when he shot him nearly 13 months ago. but was trying to hit his limousine. Government prosecutors have revealed. They disclosed the information in a legal brief filed in a Federal court in an effort to have a judge approve, its plans to show a jury slowmotion videotape of the shooting. Hinckley's lawyers have objected to the Government's plan to introduce the tape and other evidence, such as evidence of at least some of the victims, on grounds that it, would inflame the jury and prejudice Hinckley's ' case. Hinckley, who is pleading insanity, will go on trial on April 27.— Washington. Dispute narrows Egypt's dispute with Israel over the proposed new Sinai border appears to have narrowed down to the fate of a few civilians in a disputed coastal strip. Egyptian Foreign Ministry officials said the argument revolved around whether Israeli civilians should be allowed to remain in the 700 m long. Taba strip after Israel's general withdrawal from Sinai on April, 25. An American diplomat. Walter Stoessel. is attempting to settle the dispute.—Cairo. Arabs barred Israeli authorities have banned Palestinian Arabs with Israeli citizenship from entering the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank for the coming 11 months. Israeli State Radio has said. The report did not indicate how many people would be affected by the prohibition. It said authorities gave no explanation for the decision but that it could be linked to demonstrations on March 30. For the last six years. Israeli Arabs have chosen that day, which they call “Earth Day," to protest against what they consider as Israel's expropriation of their lands. Israel has 630,000 Israeli Arabs and 3.3 million Jews—Jerusalem. Youth protest The police used tear gas and rubber bullets in Zurich at the week-end to break up the latest in a wave of youth demonstrations in Swiss cities, the Swiss News Agency has reported. Hundreds of youths from 11 different organisations defied a police ban to join the protest; against •' alleged repression by the authorities, disrupting traffic for several hours. Youth centres in Zurich and in the capital Berne were recently closed down by the authorities, who said they had become hang-outs for drug addicts and petty criminals—Zurich. 3M Chinese jobless About three million citydwellers in China are out of work, well below some foreign estimates that put China’s unemployment at about 20 million, the “Peking Review” has said. The Eng-lish-language weekly quoted an unnamed -■ "responsible member" of the State Labour Bureau as saying unemployment at the end of 1981 totalled 3.05 million out of an urban population of about 200 million and that they included more than two million secondary schoolleavers.—Peking. Ferry capsizes A Nile River ferry has capsized in a canal' 10km north-east of Cairo and all 60 passengers are feared drowned. Police officials said the ferry was carrying about three times more passengers than its licence allowed — Cairo.