1Police became involved in the Marsden Point industrial dispute today when they raided union offices in Auckland and Whangarei looking for a forged Marsden Refinery Constructors (MRC) newsletter.

2The Government is appointing a committee to enquire into Friday night's Queen Street riots.

3The hijack drama at tehran Airport has ended thanks to swift action by Iranian Security Forces.

4Large numbers of people continue to seek hospital treatment in Bhopal and thousands are leaving the city following the Union Carbide gas lead disaster. Two security guards were also rushed to hospital after a suspected gas leak at a Union Carbide facility in Sydney.

5The American aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson sailed into Tokyo today, with Japanese Navy craft shielding it from a flotilla of small boats carrying anti-nuclear protesters.

6Prime Minister David Lange believes that the size of the latest nuclear explosion at Mururoa Atoll indicates that french testing may be coming to an end.

7Porirua man Dave Aimer has been given a new heart in an English hospital. Meanwhile, a three year old girl is being flown from Western Samoa to Auckland this evening for emergency heart surgery.

8Additional excavations at the base of the Clyde Dam, which have delayed construction by almost a year, are now virtually complete.

9Former President of the National Tramways Union and veteran of Spanish Civil War, Tom Spiller has died in Auckland, aged 75. Spiller was a long-time Communist and an outspoken support of socialist causes.

10A pioneering deer farmer says it is time to diversify from farming beef and lamb if New Zealand is to survive in changing global markets.

11In Sri Lanka, white elephants are regarded as working animals, but they also receive an unusual amount of respect.