1The Minister of Foreign Affairs Warren Cooper today warned that New Zealand could be shut out of special trading arrangements if a Labour Government tampered with The Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty (ANZUS). However, Labour Party leader David Lange says that the right to bring nuclear-powered ships into New Zealand waters is not a crucial element of the Treaty.

2Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon says he believes that the Labour Party would introduce a tax on assets to pay for its election promises.

3Kapiti's Labour candidate Margaret Shields told members of the Police Association today that a Labour Government is committed to introducing an early retirement plan for Police.

4Treasury has confirmed that total Government borrowing since the election was called now totals $920 million.

5New Zealand Party leader Bob Jones last night threatened to call off his campaign tour, upset at media coverage which he says is "suppressing the truth".

6As the campaigning intensifies, returning officers are working overtime in order to prepare for election day, but say they are confident that all systems will be ready on time.

7American negotiators will travel to Vienna in September for talks on limiting space weapons, in a Soviet initiative which the USSR has since rejected. British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe has been pushing the American viewpoint during a visit to Moscow, urging the Soviets to resume negotiations on reducing nuclear weapons.

8The Australian Government has decided to hold a judicial inquiry into the effects of British nuclear tests in South Australia in the 1950s and 1960s. The inquiry is expected to look into allegations that Aborigines were killed by the blasts and soldiers were affected by radiation.

9Iraqi claims that they have attacked more ships in the Persian Gulf have now been confirmed.

10British steelworkers have rejected a call by the nation's coal miners to join their fourth-month long strike. They say they are sympathetic to the miners' cause, but believe joining the strike would jeopardise their own jobs.

11Most of West Germany's automobile workers are expected to end their six-week long strike tonight, with the remainder returning to work within a few days.

12Thieves have stolen several million dollars worth of valuables from a bank in Rome.

13Campaign Report Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon has been concentrating his campaigning efforts on provincial marginal seats. Labour Party leader David Lange conducted a whistle-stop tour through the Waikato and King Country today, appealing to third party voters not to waste their vote. Social Credit Party leader Bruce Beetham believes his party can take the Otago electorate and unseat Foreign Affairs Minister Warren Cooper. New Zealand Party leader Bob Jones says the New Zealand Party is poised to win several key South Island seats.

14After years of trying unsuccessfully to breed from its adult tuatara, the Southland Museum at long last has four young tuatara which were hatched from eggs laid on Stephens Island in Cook Strait.