Cable briefs

Press, 7 April 1987, Page 10

Cable briefs

Spycatcher appeal Britain’s appeal against an Australian court ruling allowing a former British spycatcher to publish his memoirs will be heard on July 6. The New South Wales Appeal Court will hear Britain’s argument that Peter Wright is under a life-long obligation to keep silent about his counter-espionage work for M. 1.5. — Sydney. Bus plunge Nineteen passengers were killed when a longdistance bus left the road and plunged over a precipice in north-west China, says the “China Daily.” Twenty-eight others were injured in the crash on the road between the city of Xian and Gansu province eight days ago, and Government departments are investigating the cause, said the paper. — Peking. Teaching post Aviem Sella, the Israeli Air Force colonel accused of recruiting the United States Navy analyst, Jonathan Pollard, as a spy, has been appointed to a military teaching post, the daily newspaper “Al Hamishar” has reported. Colonel Sella will be a lecturer at the Army’s National Security College for at least two years. — Tel Aviv.