1The Government is warning fire fighters planning strike action tomorrow that it will not respond to industrial threats.

2Prime Minister David Lange has confirmed that key figures in the Maori loans affair had worked for American spy agency the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). However, he says there is no evidence to suggest the affair was a CIA operation.

3The Government will spend between $35 million and $40 million this year subsidising unprofitable Post Offices. This will allow 600 small outlets.targeted for closure, to remain open when the Post Office becomes a commercial business in April. However, a question mark still hangs over the future of around 250 small Post Office branches, which is concerning to many small communities.

4Peter Joseph Holden, the man accused of murdering six year old Christchurch schoolgirl Louisa Damodran, was in court today for a depositions hearing.

5The Labour Party has excluded Parliament's Speaker Dr Gerard Wall from standing again in the Porirua electorate at the next general election. However, Wall plans to contest the decision.

6In Lebanon, the Shi'ite Amal Militia has partially lifted a siege on a Palestinian refugee camp in West Beirut and another in the south of Lebanon. Meanwhile, the Druze Militia leader says he believes British hostage negotiator Terry Waite is being held by the pro-Iranian Hezbollah group.

7Queensland's New Zealand born Premier, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen appears to be making a bid to become the Australian Prime Minister. However, his decision has caused a crisis in Queensland's Parliament.

8A top Soviet official claims that Jewish dissident Iosif Begun, the subject of Jewish protests in Moscow last week, has been freed.

9Breaking News The Wellington High Court has stopped tomorrow's planned strike by New Zealand's professional fire fighters for 24 hours.

10A row is developing between the Soviet Union and the United States over a controversial new seven-part ABC American television series, Amerika. It dramatises a future in which America has become occupied by the Soviets.

11Conservationists are appealing to the Irish Government to take emergency action regarding the sunken oil tanker Kowloon Bridge, which is continuing to pollute the environment.