Cable Briefs

Press, 19 April 1979, Page 8

Cable Briefs

Cecil toll 12 Typhoon Cecil headed north-east into the Pacific yesterday, leaving behind at least 12 dead, a similar number missing, more than S2M worth of damage, and hundreds homeless from two days of battering in the central Philippines. Among those missing were an unknown number of foreign surveyors from a French-Swiss chartered geo-physical survey vessel that sank at the height of the storm 480 km south of Manila. — Manila. Egypt excluded Arab States, retaliating against the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, have suspended Egypt from the Organisation of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries and banned the sale of Arab oil to it. The O.A.P.E.C. Council of Ministers, meeting in an emergency session, also suspended Egypt from three affiliated bodies —- the Arab Maritime Petroleum Transport Company, the Arab Petroleum Investment Corporation, and the recently-created Arab Petroleum Services Company. — Kuwait. Couples held Less than 24 hours after the bullet-riddled bodies of three security company guards were found sprawled near their armoured truck, the police have arrested two unemployed couples and recovered all of the SUSI.BM in cash and valuables that was stolen in the raid in Waterbury, Connecticut, — Waterbury. Iran oil deal Royal Dutch Shell Oil has become the first big Western company to sign a long-term crude-oil supply contract with the new Iranian revolutionary Government. The contract is for 235,000 barrels a day and will initially run for nine months from April 1. The price will be $U516.57 a barrel for Iranian light and $U516.04 for heavy. — London, ‘Pakistan has bomb 9 Pakistan is preparing to test an atomic bomb, Indian newspapers have reported in New Delhi. The reports say that at the same time the United States hag just renewed its offer to supply Pakistan with 50 Northrop FSE Tiger fighter planes equipped with air-to-ground missiles. Both the independent “Times of India” and the pro-Soviet “Patriot” say that Pakistani leaders “need the bomb” for reasons of interior politics because of the tension created by the recent hanging of the former Prime Minister, Zulfikar All Bhutto. — New ‘ Delhi.