NEWS IN BRIEF

Mea CuIpa
THE AMBASSADOR OF the Republic of Poland, Richard Stemplowski, has written to Sir Sigmund Sternberg to apologise for the "deplorable comments" of Fr H Jankowski. He said the remarks had met with wide criticism among the Polish community which has become sensitive towards symptoms of antisemitism: "The President of the Republic of Poland has distanced himself from the priest. Mr Walesa said that he would not tolerate antisemitism."
Burundi query
BISHOP DANIEL. REILLY of Worcester, Massachussetts, chairman of the US Bishops' Committee on International Policy, said in a statement on 30 June that the international community was late to intervene in the Rwandan crisis, where genocidal attacks by extremist groups ravaged the population, and that this must not happen in Burundi.
Vietnam death
ARCHBISHOP PAUL NGUYEN Van Binh of Ho Chi Minh City has died at the age of 85 after an extended illness. Ordained archbishop in
November 1960, he was one of the influential churchmen in Vietnam, the second largest Catholic community in Asia after the Philippines.
Death threat BISHOP ABTURO LONA REYES of Tehuantepec blamed influential local interests for an ambush on 29 June in which he narrowly escaped death in Mexico City when two masked gunmen opened fire on the vehicle he was driving. Bishop Reyes, who has been outspoken in his defense of the rights of native Indians in his Southern Mexican diocese, said he has now survived six attempts on his life.
Muggeridge fan
Till:. I 1,1-FERS, JOURNALS,
sermons, book reviews and television scripts of Malcolm Muggeridge will be part of a collection displayed at Wheaton College in Illinois. The college bought his work for £15,000, after no British university expressed any serious interest. Amongst others whose papers are housed at the college, Muggeridge will be in the company of another late convert to Catholicism, GK Chesterton.