1Prison officers at Mount Eden Prison will not be accepting any new prisoners after midnight tonight because they say the prison is already dangerously overcrowded.

2The search is continuing tonight for a Wellington yachtsman missing in the Coral Sea.

3Neither 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.

4United 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.

5The Reserve Bank has moved quickly to avert a cash crisis that threatens to further increase interest rates, by pumping millions of dollars into circulation.

6The 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.

7Deputy 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.

8The 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.

9Former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith has been suspended from Zimbabwe's Parliament for a year, because of statements he made opposing sanctions against South Africa.

10The visit of Pope John Paul II to Chile is providing a catalyst for the crowds opposing the Pinochet regime.

11Police are having difficulty identifying the body of a woman who was killed by a Saltwater crocodile near the Australian town of Broome. However, an eyewitness to the event as has told the story of her demise.

12The first day of an auction of jewelry that belonged to the Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson, has fetched about NZ$48 million.

13A massive sale of earthquake-damaged goods brought thousands of bargain hunters to Edgecumbe today.

14The World Water Speed Record holder, Ken Warby has turned a giant truck into a dragster.