Arsonist jailed

Press, 30 August 1984, Page 10

Arsonist jailed

A man, aged 21, has been jailed for 10 years for starting one of last year’s Ash Wednesday bushfires in which a woman died. Mr Justice Mohr told the Supreme Court at Adelaide that the sentence had to reflect community outrage at what Darken Mark Bing had done as well as to act as a deterrent. — Adelaide. Naguib dies Mohamed Naguib, who became Egypt’s first president after the 1952 revolution which overthrew King Farouk, died yesterday, aged 82. The former Army general was chosen by Gamal Abdel-Nasser and his group of “free officers” to head the revolutionary command council which ousted the monarchy. He was deposed by the council a year later and replaced by Nasser. — Cairo. Leader picked Queensland’s new Opposition Leader is Neville Warburton, aged 52, the Labour Party member for the Brisbane electorate of Sandgate. He was elected unopposed by the party’s state caucus to replace Keith Wright. — Brisbane. City planned The Soviet Union plans to build a big new city in the frozen north of Siberia to develop a huge gas deposit, the official news agency, Tass, has said. It will have tens of thousands of inhabitants and be one of the world’s most northern cities. The gas field is in the Yamburg peninsula, 2400 km north-east of Moscow. — Moscow.