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Press, 22 June 1981, Page 8

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Israel condemned The United Nations Security Council has strongly c nn demned the June 7 Israeli attack on Iraq's atomic reactor and urged Israel to allow . international inspection of its own nuclear , plants. The 15-nation council unanimously approved the resolution. The text was completed after three days: of negotiations between Iraq? which at first had sought mandatory sanctions against Israel, and the United States — New York Begin ahead in poll A public opinion poll published nine days before Israel’s General Election says the Prime Minister (Mr Menachem Begin) has increased his popularity. The poll in the "Jerusalem Post” newspaper. taken after , Israel’s air attack on an Iraqi nuclear reactor, gave Mr Begin's Likud bloc coalition 41 per cent of the vote. This would be sufficient to give the Likud 49 seats in the 120-member Knesset (Parliament) and should enable Mr Begin to muster a workable coalition with religious and Right-wing groups, it said. _ Tel Aviv. Prince's party Guests at Prince Andrew’s belated twenty-first birthday party at Windsor Castle were ' treated to a special perform- • anc& by the singer, Elton John. Champagne corks popped in the ornate castle ballroom as the singer pounded out a succession of his greatest -hits. '' ; 1 Among the 509 to 609 guests were many of Prince Andrew's friends from hiss days at Gordonstoun school and from R.N.A.S. Culdwe in Cornwall, where he ig' pursing his Royal Navy training. — London. Test-tube baby Australia's seventh test-'-tube baby, a girt called: Shama, has been born at the: Queen Victoria Medical Centre, the Melbourne hos-J pital has announced. Shama was born 12 weeks prema» turely and weighed only 1121 grams. A medical centre, spokeswoman said Shama] had immature lungs, a con>l mon condition in very pre*] mature infants, and required ventilation. Otherwise, her] condition was stable and sSH isfactory. — Melbourne;