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Press, 7 May 1983, Page 10

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Sea battle Seventeen crewmen from an Iraqi gunboat were lost and 12 saved when their vessel sank in a sea battle with the Iranian Navy, reports Iran’s national news agency I.R.N.A. The agency, said that the Iraqi gun-boat had fired three of its four missiles at targets in the area of Iran’s Nowruz oilfield when it was hit by Iranian fire.—London. Envoy recalled Argentina has recalled its Ambassador to Italy amid a deepening crisis over thousands of missing people declared dead by the Argentine

Government. An Argentine Embassy spokesman said that Rodolfo Luchetta had been recalled for an indefinite period for talks on what he called “the current crisis in our relations with Italy.”— Rome. Peace talks President Francois Mitterrand of France has said that, despite two days of talks in Peking, France and China were still at odds over ways to bring peace to Kampuchea. Speaking at a news conference in the Great Hall of the People, in Peking, he also said . that China appeared close to buying four nuclear reactors from

France and was weighing the quality of French telcommunications technology — Peking. Law protest The Bolivian police firing water cannon and tear-gas dispersed 200 civil servants demonstrating outside Congress in support of demands for a law allowing them to form their own union. Congressmen called in the police after the demonstrators surrounded the building and punctured the tyres of cars outside. There were no reports of arrests or injuries.— La Paz.