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Press, 5 June 1982, Page 8

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Marine honoured

■ A young Rbyal Marine officer who led his tiny platoon into battle as the Argentinans invaded South Georgia has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Acting Lieutenant Keith Mills is one of five men to get medals for heroism in the fight for the South Atlantic island and six others are mentioned in despatches. Lieutenant Mills, aged 22, and his tiny force fought fiercely and. holed a corvette, shot down a helicopter and damaged another before being forced to surrender. — London. .

Envoy shot

An unknown gunman in a car has shot a Kuwaiti diplomat outside his home in New Delhi. Mustafa Marzook was shot four times in the stomach and was rushed to hospital but was dead on arrival, the Press • Trust of •India reported. — New Delhi.

Hurricane threat

■ Residents of the Florida Keys have- abandoned their homes and fled for high ground as a hurricance that developed with awesome quickness roared toward them with 128 km/h wind and driving rain. Cars

streamed out of densely populated areas up the coast in Fort Myers, while some residents stocked up on vital supplies and hoped to ride out hurricane Alberto. — Miami.

Soweto bombs

Black commuter travel into Johannesburg was disrupted after explosions wrecked two pylons carrying overhead railway power lines in the satellite city of Soweto. Extra buses were laid on to help bring workers into Johannesburg, about 20km from. Soweto. The Soweto blasts follow a series of six explosions which rocked the northern Natal town of Paulpietersburg, damaging a fuel depot and railway installations. — Johannesburg.

3000 detained

Three thousand people have been detained under Egypt’s emergency regulations, the Interior Minister,. Hassan Abu Basha, says. A one-year state of Emergency vias declared after President Anwar Sadat’s assassination in October. The detainees were all members of clandestine terrorist organisations, he said. — ..Cairo.