1The long-awaited report into industrial relations at the troubled Marsden Point expansion site was released today, but provided no clear answers to the problem.

2An American scientist studying acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) says the killer virus can breed a thousand times faster than other viruses, making it one of the most dangerous viruses humans have ever encountered, in the same category as the Black Plague of the Middle Ages.

3Acting Prime MInister Geoffrey Palmer has rejected Japanese newspaper reports thet Soviet fishing boats at Lyttelton earlier this year were acting as spy ships.

4Detectives working on the Rainbow Warrior enquiry have found a second diver's oxygen bottle, which they say could belong to the bombers. Meanwhile, naval engineers say they have made considerable progress towards raising the Greenpeace ship from the floor of the Auckland Harbour.

5A New Zealand detective was given a lift to Tonga on Prime Minister David Lange's flight today so he could interview several crew from the yacht Shanti who had arrived in Tonga without passports or identification.

6The Air Force (RNZAF) today admitted responsibility for sparking a diplomatic incident with France as it hunted for the yacht Ouvea, in the waters near New Caledonia.

7The Minister of Maori Affairs Koro Wetere says the implications of the Waitangi Tribunal's report on the Manukau Harbour will have to be considered by the Government. In the wake of the report, two Far North Maori tribes are challenging the Government's right to take away their traditional fishing rights.

8Auckland's Middlemore Hospital has revealed that a patient there has refused treatment from a doctor because the doctor is Polynesian. They say it is not unusual for patients to reject treatment from people of different ethnicities to themselves.

9At least five Gisborne families stand to lose virtually everything after last week's flooding, because they were uninsured.

10The Waihi Gold Company has set out the conservation it will undertake if it gets approval to reopen the old Martha Hill mine.

11Incoming United States Defence Chief has warned that the United States will be forced to retaliate in some way if New Zealand puts its ban on nuclear ship visits into law.

12Problems continue to plague the latest United States Challenger space shuttle mission.

13Syria has gifted the Shi'ite Muslim Amal militia in Lebanon fifty T-54 Soviet tanks, thereby drastically changing the power balance in Lebanon.

14Southland woman Ann Crawford is recovering satisfactorily after receiving a heart/lung transplant in London.

15Town milk producers, meeting in Christchurch today, condemned a recent review of their industry and urged the Government to ignore it.

16The Auckland Star evening newspaper was not published today due to an industrial dispute.