Cable Briefs

Press, 27 September 1982, Page 8

Cable Briefs

Another intruder

Another intruder has been seized at Buckingham Palace. According to the "Sun” newspaper, the men-tally-deranged prowler was arrested in the grounds by the police guarding the Palace’s west side door. Like Michael Fagan, who has been cleared of drinking some wine belonging to Prince Charles, the latest intruder told the police: “I wanted to see the Queen.” He was taken away and questioned at London's Cannon Row Police Station. — London. Heard the one about ... Town councillors in Rajneeshpuram have passed' a resolution making joketelling mandatory at every council meeting. At least one councillor must tell a joke at the start and end of each meeting and any of Rajneeshpuram's 500 citizens who wants to tell a joke during public debate may do so. But no joke may be told more than once. Officials said that the aim was to make humour an integralpart of council meetings. — Oregon. Argentine stores Some of the medical stores used on the British hospital ship Uganda during the Falklands conflict were supplied by the Argentine Navy, the “Sunday Telegraph” newspaper has reported. An officer from the hospital ship Hydra, which returned to Portsmouth-at the week-end, said that.he had flown.to two Argentine hospital ships to pick up medical supplies ' which had been bought-from Argentina. — London. "

Walkie talkie Japan has another first — street lights that talk when you should and should not be walking. The country that has ovens telling chefs when the dish is ready and cars that remind drivers to buckle up, is trying to reduce jaywalking and the traffic accidents it brings. The city of Urawa has installed street lights with speakers. A recorded woman's . voice politely instructs pedestrians to "please wait a jnoment" or “please cross carefully." — Urawa. Hopes fade An official involved in the manhunt for six foreign tourists. including two Australians, kidnapped ten weeks ago in the western- province of Matabeleland, has said that there are not niany hopeful signs that the captives will be found alive. The police said that their last confirmed report about the tourists came in early August, when officials learned that the kidnappers had clad the foreigners in Zimbabwe Army camouflage in a bid to confuse the search team. — Harare. Violent protest Demonstrators hurled petrol bombs, and the police responded with tear gas during violent protests in northeastern France against plans to modernise France’s troubled steel industry. Workers from the nearby Chiers. plant, of the Stateowned Usinor . steel group joined the demonstrators in Chooz, where regular protests are held against the construction of a nuclear power station on the FrancoBelgian border. — Paris.