Major gas find in Abu Dhabi confirmed

Shaikh Tahnoun Bin Mohammad Al Nahyan, Chairman of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), has confirmed the finding of a new gas field off Abu Dhabi coast. Shaikh Tahnoun described the newly discovered offshore gas field, at Khuff in Umm Al Shaif region, as a major find.

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Hijackers give up in Geneva

Three Spanish Foreign Legion deserters landed at Geneva airport today aboard an airliner they hijacked at gunpoint, and surrendered immediately to police. The DC-9 aircraft of the Spanish Iberia airline flew the hijackers from Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands to Lisbon and then to Geneva after an overnight stop.

Thatcher plan runs into trouble

The new peace plan for Zimbabwe Rhodesia, worked out this weekend at the commonwealth summit, drew hostile reactions from both the government of the breakaway British colony and the guerrillas fighting to bring it down. The plan, based on proposals made at the Lusaka summit by British Premier Margaret Thatcher, also drew criticism from the right wing of her own Conservative Party.

Curfew in Kabul

Afghan troops enforced a dusk-to-dawn curfew in Kabul, after crushing an anti-government rebellion by an estimated 1,200 soldiers in Bal-Hissar Fort which juts into the main bazaar area on the edge of Kabul's old town. The country's Marxist rulers used full force of their Soviet supplied armaments to "wipe out" anti-government 'infiltrators."

Britain's polls plan unacceptable says Patriotic Front

Joshua Nkomo's wing of the Patriotic Front guerrillas in Zimbabwe Rhodesia branded as unacceptable and unrealistic Britain's new plan to supervise fresh elections in the war-battered country. "The assumption that the present British government is impartial and is therefore the fitting authority to conduct elections in the country is not acceptable to us, " Willie Musarurha, spokesman to Nkomo's Zimbabwe African Peoples Union said.

War in western Sahara ends

Mauritania has signed a peace accord with the Polisario guerrillas and formally renounced all claims to that part of the Western Sahara which it has administered since Spain withdrew in 1976. The agreement was signed, after three days of negotiations. But it fell short of specifying that Mauritania would immediately withdraw from its zone in the southern half of the former Spanish colony rich in phosphate mineral deposits.

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