Cable Briefs

Press, 10 November 1983, Page 8

Cable Briefs

Jet ‘crashed’ An airliner belonging to Linhas Aereas de Angola crashed immediately after take-off on Tuesday in southern Angola, killing about 150 people, the Yugoslav news agency, Tanjug, reports from Luanda. There were no survivors, according to the report, which was attributed to unidentified control tower officials in the Angolan capi- . tai of Luanda. Tanjug said that the Boeing 737 had carried about 150 passengers and crew members, all believed to be Angolans, and many of them young military recruits. — Belgrade. Tension reduced Israel appears to be moving to reduce tension with Syria after a declaration by the Israeli Prime Minister, Mr Yitzhak Shamir, that the Israelis had no intention of launching an attack. “We hear a lot about mobilisation and threats,” Mr Shamir said in a surprise visit to Israeli troops in southern Lebanon. “But we know the truth, which is that we don’t threaten anyone and no-one has reason to fear us unless he is plotting against us.” — Jerusalem. Body find denied A Chinese oil official has denied a Hong Kong press report that searchers had located the bodies of crewmen aboard an American oildrilling ship that sank south of China. The Left-wing newspaper “Ta Kung Pao” said that 78 crewmen had been found dead inside a closed cabin of the drillship Glomar Java Sea. But a China National Offshore Oil Corporation official in Zhenjiang, said the report was false. — Peking. , New' Qantas planes Offsets worth sAustlso million for buying nine new Boeing aircraft for Australia’s international carrier, Qantas, has received formal approval from. the Federal Cabinet. The Qantas re-equip-ment will be the biggest single purchase in Australian airline history. It entails the buying, of three 747-300 stretched upper-deck aircraft and & Boeing ,767-200, extendejjange aircraft to re-

place six of the airline’s oldest 747-200 jumbos. — Canberra. ‘Dead’ girl dies A Philippine girl who “came back to life” in a coffin after being “dead” for 13 hours has died after being treated in a hospital, a Manilla newspaper reports. Cherry de la Pena succumbed to her mysterious ailment after she was taken to hospital where two doctors injected her with an unidentified drug near the heart. Her first “death” occurred after she was taken to a faith healer — the local term for someone claiming spiritual healing powers — because doctors could not cure her unknown ailment. — Manila. Wave of crime Thieves .along Rio de Janeiro’s famous beaches have started robbing swimmers, taking their bathing trunks. The daily “0 Globo” newspaper citing an unidentified city lifeguard, said that male swimmers in expensive trunks were approached in waist-high water and forced to swap their shorts with the mugger. “If the victim tries to react, the mugger tells him to look at the beach where one or two accomplices are showing a gun under a towel,” said the lifeguard. — Rio de Janeiro. Black Mayor A black Democrat, Wilson Goode, has been elected Mayor of Philadelphia in another indication of rising black political power in America’s cities. His victory gave blacks command of three of America’s four biggest cities, including Los Angeles and Chicago. — Philadelphia. Widow defeated In Georgia voters have rejected a bid by Kathryn McDonald — widow of the Right-wing Congressman, Larry McDonald, who was killed in the downing of a South Korean airliner by a Soviet fighter — to succeed her husband in office. She was beaten by a moderate conservative Demfcrat, George Darden.—Atlaflsa.