1United States President Ronald Reagan has opened the twenty-third Olympic Games at the Los Angeles Colosseum. A cast od over twenty thousand performed throughout the four-hour opening ceremony. Thirteen New Zealand athletes will begin their events in the Los Angeles Olympics tomorrow. Despite the carnival and highly commercialised atmosphere pervading Los Angeles, athletes from the Soviet Union and most Eastern Bloc countries were conspicuous by their absence.

2Bruce Beetham will remain as leader of the Social Credit Party, despite losing his Rangitikei seat in the recent election.

3There was an unsuccessful move to force a debate on Sir Robert Muldoon's continued leadership of the National Party at the Young Nationals' Conference in Wellington today.