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Press, 20 April 1982, Page 8

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Peace team .■ An Islamic peace team making a fresh attempt to end the Gulf war between Iran and Iraq has arrived in Teheran, the Iranian news agency, I.R.N.A. reports. The team is headed by the Guinean President . (Mr Ahmed Sekou Toure) and Habib Chatti, the Tunisian Secretary-General of the 43member Islamic Conference Organisation. — London

Runcie’s ‘dream’

Unity between Catholics and Anglicans may be achieved by the year 2000 after a split of four, centuries, the most Rev. Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury says in a recorded television interview. “I don’t see why we shouldn’t have that target,,” he said. Unity was something he “dreams” of. “I’d like to give the impression that whereas I take seriously the need for Christian unity, I don’t mean some kind of soft-boiled conformity, some kind of sellout. I think there are considerable difficulties ahead of considerable conflicts of opinion, but you know, that’s how you grow as human beings. It’s certainly how you grow as Christians, by an honest exchange, and not by fudging up answers and producing some bland impression,” he said. — London.

Call welcomed

The West German Foreign Minister (Mr Hans-Dietrich Genscher) has welcomed Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev’s call for top-level EastWest talks this year as an encouraging signal from Moscow. Mr Brezhnev proposed a meeting with President Reagan in a third country this autumn (northern) in an interview published by the Soviet Communist Party daily, “Pravda.” — Bonn.

Bodies found

Divers have retrieved 38 bodies out of the 60 feared drowned when a Nile River ferry capsized in a canal. Its owner has been arrested, police sources said. Only 15 people were saved when the ferry capsized in the 50metre wide Ismailia Canal, 10km north-east of Cairo. Police say the six-metre-long-three-metre-wide boat was carrying three times more passengers than its licence allowed. Police officials said the ferry was carrying labourers from an iron-rod factory to their homes across the canal. — ■ Cairo. W-