1Drug addicts will soon be able to buy syringes from chemist shops in the fight against AIDS. Intravenous drug users will be encouraged to return their new needles and buy clean ones. However, there are fears that such a move could lead to an increase in drug abuse.

2Prices continue to fall on the New Zealand Stock Exchange, but the slide is beginning to slow.

3The yacht Castaway Fiji, skippered by New Zealander Digby Taylor, is missing in the Coral Sea.

4Maori groups representing eighty claims before the courts and the Waitangi Tribunal are planning a land drive, depending on how the Court of Appeal rules on their appeal to stop the transfer of disputed land to the new State corporations.

5A police officer has failed to prevent Television New Zealand (TVNZ) showing an item on the programme Close Up, featuring an interview with a Ruatoria Rastafarian who is accusing the police of kidnap and brutality.

6The Government still is not saying whether or not the Luggate Dam will proceed, despite Caucus discussions on the issue this morning.

7New Zealand's 6000 security guards are unhappy at increased Government charges for license fees.

8All 28 Marine guards at the United States embassy in Moscow are to be sent home within a month because of a sex-spy scandal.

9British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has left Moscow after a five-day visit, stopping in Soviet Georgia on her way back to the United Kingdom.

10Hefty sentences have been handed down to the first two, out of nearly 100 people, charged after riots at the Bathurst Motorcycle Races almost two years ago.

11The late Duchess of Windsor (Wallis Simpson) will go up for auction in London tomorrow.