Cable briefs

Press, 24 February 1987, Page 10

Cable briefs

Gadaffi W denied The White House yesterday denied a newspaper report that the United States deliberately set out to kill the Libyan leader, Muammar Gadaffi, in air raids on Tripoli last April. “The bombs that fell on the Gadaffi family compound were targeted on military barracks 200 m away,” said a White House spokesman, Dan Howard. “There was no plan to go after Gadaffi specifically.”—Washington. TV host dies The American television film and theatre producer, David Susskind, one of United States television’s most enduring talk-show hosts, has been found dead in his Manhattan apartment, apparently, from natural causes. Susskind, aged 66, produced dozens of movies and plays, including the screen version of “Requiem for a Heavyweight” and “A Raisin in the Sun.”

Emigrants stray Israel has urged the United States to deny free entry to Jews who leave the Soviet Union on visas to Israel. The cabinet urged the United States to stop granting refugee status to the emigrants. About 80 per cent of Soviet Jews allowed to emigrate travel to the United States although their emigrants’ visas list their destination as Israel.—Jerusalem. Killer crocodile Hunting parties are searching for a maneating crocodile in eastern Kenya that has killed six people, the official Kenyan News Agency said. The crocodile is on the loose in the Lamu tourist region of eastern Kenya.—Nairobi. Second satellite A second United States communications satellite will be launched by a Chinese rocket in 1988, the official New China News Agency reported. China has signed a contract with the Pan American Pacific Satellite Corporation to put the satellite into geostationary orbit, the agency said.— Peking.