Cable briefs

Press, 26 May 1984, Page 10

Cable briefs

Israelis hit base Israeli jets bombed Palestinian guerrilla positions behind Syrian lines in eastern Lebanon for the second time in five days and Beirut radios said that two people had been killed and five injured. An Israeli military spokesman in Tel Aviv said that the planes had hit a regional headquarters and training base of a guerrilla group behind Syrian lines in the Bekaa Valley. Beirut radio stations said it was the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command of Ahmed Jibril. — Beirut. Eight killed Eight people were killed and one seriously wounded in the troubled north Indian state of Punjab when gunmen stopped a car and sprayed it with bullets, the Press Trust of India news agency reports. All nine occupants of the vehicle had belonged to one community, it said.. Meanwhile, the police had seized three trucks carrying arms to have been used in a new wave of Hindu-Muslim fighting in south-western India, where 211 people have been killed in eight days of clashes, officials said. — New Delhi.

Decision reversed The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's board has reversed its decision to ban the screening of a Four Comers” interview with an Irian Java guerrilla leader. James Nyaro. The board said that it believed "one of its fundamental responsibilities is to preserve the independence of this organisation." The Papua New Guinean Government had asserted that the interview had been illegally obtained. — Melbourne. Kennedy death David Kennedy's death was an "accident" due to "combined drug intoxication' from cocaine and two other drugs, says an autopsy report released by the Palm Beacii County Prosecutor's Office. Cocaine and the drugs meperidine and thioridazine had killed Mr Kennedy, said the report. — Miami. Arms found The Northern Ireland police have uncovered a huge stock of terrorist explosives and ammunition in County Tyrone. Two tonnes of explosives, approximately 1600 rounds of ammunition, two guns, detonators, and other bomb-making equipment were seized. — Belfast.