1A showdown over live sheep exports was avoided in Timaru today. The Government has called a Meat Industry conference, and live sheep exports resume tomorrow.

2This year's annual ANZUS Ministerial Meeting, due to have been held in Washington DC in July, appears to have been cancelled in favour of a meeting between the Australian Foreign MInister and United States Secretary of State in an alternate location.

3Prime Minister David Lange has confirmed that a submarine was sighted off the east coast of Rarotonga by an Air Force (RNZAF) Orion. However he will not say to which country the sub belonged.

4Prime Minister David Lange says rebel MP Jim Anderton was moved from the Chairmanship of the Caucus Industrial Relations Committee because he was not doing his job properly.

5New Zealand John Dory fish have joined the growing list of New Zealand exports to France under threat in apparent retaliation for the Rainbow Warrior affair.

6The two-week formal inquiry into last October's Air Albatross crash has begun in Wellington, marking the final stage of a lengthy investigation into the accident.

7Swedish police believe Prime Minister Olof Palme was murdered with a powerful Smith & Wesson handgun.

8Philippines President Corazon Aquino has held a victory rally in Manila attended by a million people. She has reinstated the legal right to habeas corpus, and revoked the sedition laws imposed by the Marcos regime.

9Deposed Philippines President remains in seclusion in Hawaii. However, he remains a problem for the United States as legal questions arise about the wealth he has acquired and about who it rightfully belongs to.

10Alleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk (aka Ivan The Terrible) has made his first court appearance in Jerusalem, claiming he is the victim of a case of mistaken identity.

11Analysis of the leadership row within the New Zealand Democratic Party, which is threatening to turn into a bitter slanging match, and may split the party down the middle.

12Interview with United States Arms Control Negotiator David Emery who has accused New Zealand of encouraging the Soviet Union to stall in arms reduction talks because of the Government's anti nuclear ships ban.