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Poll threat The Queensland Premier (Mr Joh Bjelke-Petersen) has indicated he is prepared to go to the polls over the push by unions for a shorter working week as the state remained in the grip of strikes and work bans. The industrial situation worsened yesterday after a meeting of 35 unions at Brisbane Trade Hall called on all Government employees in unions affiliated with the Trades and Labour Council to go on strike from midnight last night. Queensland today will be without trains, power rationing will continue, and workers in the coal industry will be on strike. — Brisbane.
Apartheid foe killed
Ruth First, one of the most prominent South African opponents of apartheid, has been killed when a parcel bomb exploded in her office in Maputo, the official Mozambican news agency reports. It quoted an official of Mozambique's security services as saying the attack resembled others in Zimbabwe. Swaziland, Lesotho, and Zambia "which were proved to be the work of the South African Secret Services." Miss First was a leading member of South African's banned African National Congress and was married to Joe Slovo, a hardline Marxist, generally regarded as the A.N.C.'s. leading ideologist. — Lisbon.
New air chief Brigadier Augusto Jorge Huges has taken over as Argentina's Air Force commander. replacing BrigadierGeneral Basilio Lami Dozo. its chief during the Falklands war. The Navy chief. (Admiral Jorge Anaya) is now the only remaining member of the three-man junta that ordered the Falklands invasion. — Buenos Aires.
10 die in blast Ten people died, including a former Real Madrid soccer player, when a block of three-storey apartment houses collapsed after an explosion in Luanco, a northern Spanish resort. Eleven people were injured in the accident,, which firemen said was apparently caused by one or more propane gas containers exploding in a ground ' floor restaurant. — Madrid. •
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