CABLED BRIEFS

Press, 11 April 1979, Page 8

CABLED BRIEFS

Mine protest Striking black miners have demonstrated at the AngloAmerican Corporation's newest gold mine, which was badly damaged in rioting on Monday. The police were called to help company security men restore order at the Elands rand gold mine, 100 km west of Johannesburg, near Fochville. It is due to be officially opened today by Anglo-American’s I chairman, Mr Harry Op- • penheimer. and Dr Hermant I Abs, honorary president of i the West German Deutsche Bank. -- Johannesburg. Fares criticised The British Air Trans port Users’ Committee ha said some of the fares or the Australia route appeal to be unduly high in relation i to costs. It cites in particu filar the normal return fan ; between Australia and Bntj tain, the 21 to 270 day excursion fare, and the one 1 way excursion fare. The r committee has welcomed re- ; cent low-cost fares inJtraduced on the route by s | British Airways and Qantas, 5 but it says the monopoly in ; this traffic by these two airlines is unjustified and that . other operators should be 5 allowed to compete. It sugI gests a “Skytrain” no-frills r type of service — as on the , Atlantic route — should be . started, and that stop-over ; privileges in South-East Asia J should be available at an extra charge on the new cheap fares run by B.A. and ■ Qantas. — London. Professor charged An extreme Leftist law professor has been charged with involvement in the kidnap and murder of the former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro. The police said that Professor Toni Negri, who taught at Padua University and the Sorbonne, was expected to be taken to Padua from Milan, where he has been held in jail since Sunday, one of at least 22 people arrested in a five-city swoop by anti-terrorist police. Nine are accused of belonging to the Red Brigades guerrilla gang, which abducted Mr Moro in Rome 13 months ago and killed him eight weeks later. — Padua. Pope's hard line Pope John Paul has told his priests that they must remain celibate, and has reminded those who want to leave their ministry that they made their vows for life. In a 35-page letter addressed to all priests of the Roman Catholic Church, the Pontiff left little doubt that he would continue to block requests by priests to leave their orders. Since his election in October the Pol-ish-born Pontiff has refused to grant any dispensations, in an attempt to stem an exodus which has accounted for some 32,000 priests leaving their orders since 1964. — Rome. Pictures banned Pro-Bhutto newspapers have been forbidden to use the once-familiar picture of Pakistan’s only popularlyelected leader for 20 years. Pictures of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, executed seven days ago, were taken down from public places when he was ousted in a military coup in July, 1977. Now newspapers which supported Mr Bhutto have been told by President Zia-Ul-Haq’s military Government not to publish his picture.—Lahore.