Cable Briefs

Press, 21 April 1979, Page 8

Cable Briefs

Execution date A new execution date of April 27 has been set for a condemned killer. John Louis Evans 111, who now is co-operating in legal efforts ito block his electrocution. I The Alabama Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered Evans iput to death on that date in i the electric chair for the January, 1977, murder of a mobile’ pawn shop owner, Edward Nassar. Evans was scheduled to die on April 6 after he refused to allow appeals of his death sentence to be filed in his behalf. The sentence was stayed temporarily’ six hours before he was' due to die. — Montgomery. ‘Khmers hungry* 1 Some 50,000 Khmer Rouge 'troops and civilians trapped lin a Vietnamese-led offensive against them in north--1 western Kampuchea are rapidly running out of food. Thai official sources say. Kampuchean refugees attempting to cross die border into Thailand have told them that the forces of the ousted Pol Pot will exhaust their food supply in about five days, they say. — Bangkok. Moscow feelers

The Soviet Union has sent a new message to China repeating its proposal for talks to improve relations. Radio Moscow has reported. The radio, in an English-language broadcast, said a Note on the subject had been given to the Chinese Ambassador in Moscow. China announced two weeks ago that it would not renew its 30-year-old treaty of friendship with the Soviet Union when the pact expires next year. — Moscow. Cairo blast

; A woman Customs inspector has been killed and •four people were injured i when a parcel bomb exploded in Cairo’s main post ioffice, a police spokesman ’has said. The spokesman said the device went off in the parcel department as the inspector was opening it to check its contents. The explosion coincided with a referendum on Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel but the spokesman said it appeared unlikely there was any connection since the sender could not know. when and if the parcel would be opened. —Cairo. Rideouts divorced John and Greta Rideout have divorced in Salem. Oregon, in the same courthouse in which Mr Rideout was acquitted last December in the first American trial of a husband accused of raping his wife. He was acquitted, Mr Rideout, aged 22, a cook, and Mrs Rideout, aged 23 were reconciled after the December trial but separated last, month when she said their relationship was no longer “peachy keen.” — Salem. Fee protest The American State Department has criticised as unwarranted Poland’s decision to charge reporters covering Pope John Paul’s visit in June an accreditation fee of $350. “The charge seems excessive, especially to a journalist who may plan to stay only a few days. Consequently, it strikes us as probably an unwarranted ob-c stacle to journalism,” thjef • department’s Hodding Carter, said. Tlie '. Polish Government agency, ' Interpress, announced the- ; fee last week, saying it: would cover access to placre ; the Pope would visit durinfe : his June 2-10 trip, closed-cf-' ’ rcuit television press centres, news confer-?. ences, and priority commute* ; ications. Accommodation’ • transport, and other penses are extra. — WaslWington.