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Toll differences The Moroccan Governmer and its opponents agree tha more than 65 people died i, a week-end of violence b Casablanca but differ on hoy they were killed. The Goy ernment said yesterday tha 66 people died and 110 wer* injured, including 73 mom bers of the security force* killed by knives and stone.* The main Opposition part' the Union Socialiste de Forces Populates, put th< death toll at more than 100' shot by Government troops The violence sprang from, a strike over food price rises.—Rabat.
O.P.E.C. challenge Finance Ministers fron O.P.E.C. countries have chai longed the world's industri alised nations to contribuU $754 million to the International Fund for Agricul tural Development. The Council of Ministers of (ho O.P.E.C. International Development Fund voted to. match the contribution with $522 million. The Fund for Agricultural Development was created in 1976 with an initial donation of about $505 million from the O.P.E.C. fund.—Quito, Ecuador. Strong ’quakes Two strong earth tremors rolled through the Andes and shook the Peruvian city of Ayacucho yesterday, killing at least three people and injuring dozens more, officials said. The Transport and Communications Minister (Mr Fernando Chavez Belaunde) said the tremors. 55 minutes apart, measured 5.5 and six on the Richter scale.—Lima. Seventh faster Another Irish Republican guerrilla in the Maze Prison■ outside Belfast has gone on hunger strike bringing the number of prisoners fasting for political status to seven, British officials -have said. Michael James Devine, aged 27. is serving 12 years for possessing firearms and ammunition. Devine, from Londonderry, is a member of the outlawed Irish National Liberation Army, the group that said it .murdered Lords Mountbatten.—London. King hurt King Juan Carlos of Spain ? was cut bn the throat, arms, and face when he fell? through a glass door near his y swimming pool this week. ? The hospital where he spent? the night said that the King's | left forearm was cut through to the nerves and tendons. The King had a general anaesthetic while the cuts :■ were stitched.--Madrid.' *<* i
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