CABLED BRIEFS

Press, 9 April 1979, Page 8

CABLED BRIEFS

Policemen die Gunmen have killed three policemen as they were returning to their barracks in the Basque city of San Sebastian. The three had arrived in the Basque provincial capital on Friday from their normal post in Murcia in south-eastern Spain. The police said the killings bore the mark of the Basque separatist guerrilla group, E.T.A., blamed for the slayings of 24 of the 37 victims of guerrilla ' violence in Spain this year. On Thursday a bomb'killed the owner of a bar frequented by policemen in the Basque city of Pamplona. — San Sebastian.

Volcano alert i s Four defence logistics ex- , perts have left Australia to < help draw up contingency j plans for an evacuation of up to 25,000 people from a small i volcano-threatened island ( north of Papua New Guinea. 1 The island, Karkar, is about t 40 km north of Madang. Two Australian vulcanologists * studying the Karkar volcano t were killed on March 10 soon f after radioing warnings of I an imminent eruption. An- ' other two vulcanologists sent t to the island are reported to expect a big eruption soon. £ — Canberra. ’ 5 Condor project 1 Some expensive United 1 States Government help is . on the way to try to save 1 the fewer than 30 remaining 1 California condors, largest ■ soaring bird in North America, from extinction. Officials say it eventually will cost SUSBM to capture the birds and encourage them to breed in captivity. Lynn Greenwait, an official of the United States and Wildlife Service, at a hearing of the House of Representatives wildlife conservation sub-committee said: “It may take decades. It is a sound investment, nonetheless.” — , Washington. I Choir to return The Vienna Boys’ Choir, ’ prevented by a labour law last December from singing ' at Christmas for the first ’ time in 500 years, will per- • form again at Easter. The Austrian Parliament has I passed a new labour law ' allowing children to work ; during part of their school holidays if the work is of special cultural value. The boys, whose performances draw thousands of people every year, had to cancel seven Christmas concerts after a journalist, a sister of one of the boys, pointed out that an old labour law barred children from holiday work. — Vienna. Anti-terror snoop Fourteen extreme Leftists have been arrested by antiterrorist police in five Italian cities, including several suspected of involvement with the murder of former Prime Minister, Aldo Moro, last year, police sources have said. The arrests were directed by the Padua judge investigating the Moro killing by the Red Brigades urban guerrilla group. One of those detained in Rome was Oreste Scalzone, aged 30, a founder of the far-Left Workers’ Autonomy Group. He was to be charged with belonging to an armed band, the sources added. Some teachers at Padua University, a centre of political unrest, were reported to be among those arrested. — Padua.