Cable Briefs

Press, 18 April 1979, Page 8

Cable Briefs

i / rains collide The body of a girl was found yesterday in the wreckage' of a holiday special and a commuter train’ which crashed on Monday) night killing both drivers) and injuring 62 people. She! was found by teams still; trying to find the bodies of; the two drivers in the; )twisted wreckage It was not; I clear which of the trains she! I had been on. An in-' ivestigation has already started into how the trains 1 collided just outside Gilmour, Street Station, Paisley. The 1 holiday special, returning to! Glasgow from Ayr, was just I I pulling out of the station, land ended up on top of the i engine of the commuters) train, only centimetres from 1 lan overhead power cable. — Paisley (Scotland). Tuo die in fire Two crew members were killed in a fire on- the 6600tonne Polish freighter ReyImont in the. Baltic Sea durling Monday night, but heli-l copters and fishing vessels! [rescued 44 passengers and I crew, Danish maritime I sources have said. They said the vessel was still burning early yesterday between the Danish islands of Bornholm and Christiansoe. The fire is believed to have started in the Reymont’s engine room. — Copenhagen. Unionist freed Donald Uren, Asian representative of the Londonbased International Transport Workers’ Federation, [has been freed yesterday after being held by the Mallaysian Government for 60 days without trial. He was held under the Internal Security Act after being arrested on February 15 for allegedly inciting airline workers to take illegal industrial action. The Home Minister (Tan Sri Ghazali Shafie) said that Mr Uren had indicated the error of his ways and had expressed remorse. The Government disbanded the Airline Employees’ Union last Saturday for resorting to a goslow in February which grounded Malaysian Airline System flights and detained for two years without trial 13 of 22 union activists arrested under the Internal Security Act. The Malaysian Airline System is legally deI fined as an essential service, [disruption of which is an offence under the Industrial Relations Act. — Kuala | Lumpur.

Un aids shot Robbers shot up a security firm’s branch office in Waterbury, Connecticut, and an armoured truck early on Monday, killing three guards and fleeing with $1.79M in cash, cheques, jewellery, and food stamps, authorities have said. Negotiable securities — which have become harder to dispose of in recent years — and an undisclosed amount of cash were left, behind, the police said. Earlier reports quoted an investigator, who declined to speak on the record, as saying as much as S3OM to SSOM worth of negotiable securities were taken. — Waterbury. Petrol offences Fifty Greek drivers were fined between $2B and $l6OO for violation of Government energy-saving measures during the week-end. The police said 101 Greek drivers were arrested on Saturday and Sunday because they defied new rules under which cars are allowed to travel at week-ends according io whether their number plates end in an odd or even number. Among the 50 who were found guilty was a 34-year-old man who was fined $l6OO and sentenced to 50 days imprisonment for having changed the last figure on his licence plate from zero to nine. — Athens. Ronstadt home

Governor Edmund Brown of California and the rock singer, Linda Ronstadt, have returned to California from a 10-day vacation in Africa, still unmarried. Miss Ronstadt arrived in London several hours before the Governor and denied ever having planned to marry Mr Brown in Africa. Before leaving London, Mr Brown told reporters: “Stories about our getting wed are journalists’ hijinks. I know it sounds old fashioned, but we are just good friends.” — Los Angeles. Disaster survey

The United States is to conduct a survey by air or satellite of Fiji disaster areas hit by hurricane Meli. The survey group would study disaster areas by helicopter; and a photographic survey; would be done by plane or| satellite, the spokesman said. I A second United States Air] Force Cl4l Starlifter aircraft has landed at Nandi with the] rest of $320,000 worth of relief supplies comprising tents, cots, blankets, and water tanks. — Suva.

Rome clash Left-wing students have] fought policemen and] thrown petrol-bombs at al local headquarters of the] Communist Party during a demonstration in Rome. They were protesting against the arrest of some 40 members of the extfeme-Left extra-Parliamentary "autonomist” groups during anti-] terrorist police swoops ini six cities this week. Three! students were arrested dur-1 ing the clashes, which took; place near the university] campus m eastern Rome. —j Rome.