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Deputy Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer accuses US Government of by-passing the NZ Government as it tries win over the NZ public, evidenced by Casper Wineberger’s interview on Eyewitness News last night.
The Greenpeace boat Greenpeace is refused entry into Tahiti for generator repairs.
Meeting between Sir Robert Muldoon and National leader Jim McLay over calls for Muldoon to return to the front bench ends in a stalemate.
Rise in wages for hospital surgeons okayed by the Higher Wages Commission.
South African police shoot dead five people on Cape Town.
CHOGM in the Bahamas sees wide spread condemnation of South African apartheid policies but Britain’s PM Margaret Thatcher remains silent.
Zimbabwe likely to be NZ’s first African diplomatic post according to PM David Lange.
Body of US citizen found after it was thrown from hijacked cruise ship Achille Lauro.
Petrol flows from the World’s first synthetic petrol plant in Motonui in Taranaki.