1The Pulp and Paper Workers' Federation is facing total defeat tonight, after 67 days of strike and lockout at the Tasman mill at Kawerau.

2Workers remain locked out at the New Zealand Steel expansion site at Glenbrook tonight, after yet another day of discussions aimed at breaking the stalemate.

3Relations between the Government and the union movement plummeted further today, as the row grew over a supposed Government deadline for a wages deal. Federation of Labour Secretary Ken Douglas has accused Associate Finance Minister Richard Prebble of lying regarding the supposed deadline.

4The Government has rejected a claim that thousands of jobs will be lost in the clothing industry because of cheap imports from Asia and the Far East if import licensing is removed from clothing.

5The Post Office is trying to prevent the sale of a Christmas stamp that contains a spelling mistake, but philatelists are prepared to pay large sums to get hold of the stamp for their collections.

6Transport Minister Richard Prebble told Parliament this afternoon that he may take legal action over a radio report that he was seen driving in Wellington last weekend with a newspaper spread over the steering wheel.

7United States President Ronald Reagan has told the United Nations (UN) General Assembly that the United States and the Soviet Union could be on the verge of serious, productive negotiations on arms reductions. The Soviet Union has described the speech as "disappointing and negative".

8Yesterday marked six years since Iraq invaded Iran, beginning the Gulf War. The war was expected to be a quick victory for Iraq, but is now grinding into its seventh year. Iran has marked the anniversary with a large military parade and a warning that it is poised to strike a decisive blow against Iraq.

9In a rare report from within war-torn Afghanistan, a British journalist reports on an operation in which nine guerrilla groups combined to attack and take a Government army base near the Soviet border for the Mujahideen.

10More than a million Black South Africans are expected to stop work net Wednesday in memory of the 177 miners who died in the Kinross gold mine tragedy last week. Feelings are running high over the tragedy, which miners attribute to lax safety standards. Today those feelings spilled over into a memorial service organised by the White mine owners.

11A QUANGO is a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation. It is typically an organisation to which a government has devolved power, but which is still partly controlled and/or financed by government bodies. The Liquid Fuels Trust Board, one of the victims of the Government's hunt against QUANGOs, is planning to go into business on its own account and says its prospects for success are high.

12The world's youngest heart-lung transplant patient, a two and a half month old baby boy, is said to be doing well in a London hospital.