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Press, 14 July 1982, Page 8

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Left backs Hayden The Left wing of the Labour party will support Bill Hayden at Friday's special caucus meeting to decide the party’s leadership. The decision came after a long meeting at Parliament House in Canberra yesterday. The statement safd: “Members of the parliamentary Left met and decided to reaffirm their support for Bill Hayden as leader of the parliamentary Labour Party.”—Canberra. Melbourne strike call Waterside workers in Mel- . bourne will be called on to strike in protest at the visit of the United States guided missile destroyer. USS Goldsborough. The Victoria Waterside Workers' Federation secretary, Geoff Swayne, said that the visit by the warship, which he said would be carrying nuclear weapons, was “provocative." Members would be called together soon to determine the length of the stoppage over the visit.—Melbourne. Actress gives birth The actress. Sissy Spacek, has given birth to ‘a 3.25 kg girl, and mother and daughter are doing fine, a hospital • spokeswoman says. “The : baby looks like' her, with j strawberry-blond hair," she , said. The child is the first for | Miss Spacek, aged 32, and , her husband, Jack.—Los Angeles. . (

Somalia alert Somalia ordered its citizens to be ready to fight for their country yesterday after a series of Ethiopian attacks on Somali territory in the past ’ 10 days. Hundreds of thousands of Somalis have chanted “give lis guns" and “down with Soviet imperialism” in the Somali capital, of Mogadishu against the attacks by its bitter socialist enemy in the Horn' of Africa.—Mogadishu. Buses bombed Thousands of pounds in damage was caused early yesterday in a terrorist bomb attack on a Northern Ireland bus depot which left nine vehicles burned out. The police said that two masked men, one armed, planted devices in Londonderry's Penriyburn depot about 20 minutes before the first of five explosions.—Belfast. Child-motber well A premature infant and her 10-year-old mother are in a satisfactory condition, say hospital officials. The girl gave birth to the . two, kg baby last week after she was flown to hospital from a rural eastern Texas town, said a hospital'night super-visor.-HouSton.