1The search is continuing tonight for a Wellington yachtsman missing in the Coral Sea.

2Neither the Ministry of Transport (MOT) or Police have said much about a late night car accident in Wellington last night involving Prime Minister David Lange's car and a pedestrian.

3Deputy Opposition leader George Gair has shrugged off suggestions that he should lose his finance portfolio following speculation that the National Party's front bench may be reshuffled before the next election.

4Auckland police have made special plans tonight to deal with industrial action by prison wardens at Mount Eden Prison.

5United States Navy Secretary John Lehmann says the Pentagon is to begin a serious study into moving the American Operation Deep Freeze base out of Christchurch.

6The Australian Air Force (RAAF) has lost another F1-11 fighter bomber, the sixth to have crashed in fourteen years. Two creman were killed in the crash near Tenterfield, New South Wales.

7Staff at Watties canning factories in Hastings and Gisborne will be told on Monday that 300 of them are to lose their jobs. Today a telecommunications factory in Napier has announced 26 redundancies as a result of economic conditions and increased competition in the industry.

8Neither the Ministry of Transport (MOT) or Police have said much about a late night car accident in Wellington last night involving Prime Minister David Lange's car and a pedestrian.

9Christchurch firm Tait Electronics is making its mark in the export trade with its two way radios.

10Interview with Opposition leader Jim Bolger about: his poor showing in last night's Eyewitness News Heylen poll; the role of George Gair as Opposition Finance spokesman, and whether Sir Robert Muldoon will have an economic role to play in a National Government.

11Worldwatch The investigation into the sex for secrets scandal, involving marine guards at the United States Embassy in Moscow, has now spread to Vienna, Poland and East Germany, where it is believed that foreign agents may have used similar methods to penetrate American security. Amid this scandal, the new United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Jack Matlock, experienced his first day on the job.

12Worldwatch British Prime MInister Margaret Thatcher has returned to London following her trip to the Soviet Union, declaring that she thought the world was a safer place as a result of her visit and calling on the West to support Mikhail Gorbachev's endeavours to reconstruct Soviet society. However, as she arrived back, her Conservative Party Cabinet was planning to take action against Japan for restrictive trade practices.

13Worldwatch It is six months since the United States imposed sanctions on South Africa, but

14Worldwatch The visit of Pope John Paul II to Chile is providing a catalyst for the crowds opposing the Pinochet regime.

15Worldwatch South Korea is rapidly becoming a major industrial power, with expanding iron and steel works and an electronics industry that is expected to soon rival that of Japan. However, there is growing dissension in South Korea and an ever-present threat from North Korea.