Cable briefs

Press, 21 November 1987, Page 11

Cable briefs

Bowie cleared A grand jury cleared David Bowie of sexual assault charges brought by a woman who said the rock star attacked her in a hotel room after a Dallas concert No further action will be taken in the case, said June Lukashea, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office.— Dallas. Philby on TV The British double agent, Harold “Kim” Philby, who escaped to Moscow 24 years ago after betraying British and United States secrets to the Soviet Union, has made an appearance on Soviet television. A fourminute interview with the 75-year-old spy was shown last month on Latvian television and a recording of it reached Moscow last week.—Moscow. Six drowned Flood waters swirling into a building drowned six people and unseasonal storms lashing the western Indian state of Maharashtra killed two others. The Press Trust of India said six people taking refuge in a newly built shopping complex in Dondaicha town drowned when the Bhogavatl River burst its banks.—New Delhi. Radiation danger Radiation is two to three times more dangerous than was previously thought, according to Britain’s National Radio-

logical Protection Board, which set radiation safety levels for the British atomic test trials at Maralinga. Emu and Monte Bello in Australia in the 19505. The board said, “continued exposure near the (current) dose limits represents a level of risk which verges on the unacceptable.” The “Independent” newspaper says the new recommendations could affect about 2000 people in Britain, whose work takes them near the present dose limits.—London. Nuclear war fear The greatest fear ~ of children over the age of eight is of dying ,in a nuclear war, a rj.ew shjdy has found. z The suryey of fears was conducted'by students of the Sturt campus of the South Australian College of Advanced Education in Adelaide.—Adelaide. Brodsky in Novy Mir’ Poems by 1987 Nobel literature prize-winner, Joseph Brodsky, who once served in a Soviet labour camp, will appear in the next issue of the Soviet magazine “Novy Mir,” its poetry editor was quoted as saying. Oleg Chukhontsev told the weekly "Moscow News” that his journal had decided even before Brodsky won the prize to publish for the first time in the Soviet Union poems he wrote in the last 15 years during which he has lived in the United States.—Moscow.