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Press, 27 May 1983, Page 5

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King dies The exiled King Idris of Libya has died in Cairo. He was 93. Idris took refuge in Egypt after being toppled in a militarty coup led by Colonel Muammar Gadaffi in September, 1969. — Cairo. Iraqi offer Iraq has offered Iran a limited agreement under United Nations supervision to end the shelling of towns and villages on both sides to >• prevent more civilian casualties in the Gulf war. The Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Tareq Aziz, said that. Bagdad was ready to sign a “special peace accord” with Iran to end the shelling of towns and villages and protect civilians. — Bagdad. Twins well An Aboriginal woman and her test-tube baby twins are doing well in the Queen Victoria Medical Centre, said a hospital spokesman. Mrs Carolyn Steel, aged 33, gave birth to a boy and a girl. The boy, Gheran, weighed 3.16 kg, and Darra, the girl, weighed 3.44 kg. — Melbourne. Guards strike The Peruvian Government has ordered a three-day state of emergency in Lima and said that the Armed Forces were being sent into the

streets to keep order because of strike by paramilitary Civil Guards. The Government is being suspended during the emergency. The Government said that an estimated 650 Civil Guards who had rebelled to protest against low pay were guilty of a breach of discipline. — Lima. Hunger protest Fifteen South Korean opposition politicians have gone on hunger strike, joining a “return to full democracy” protest by their former leader, Kim Young-Sam who continued to refuse food and medication in a hospital. Mr Kim, aged 55, a former president of the now-defunct main opposition New Democratic Party, was forcibly taken by the police to hospital while on a hunger strike which he began on May 18. He had been under house arrest since June last year. — Seoul. I.R.A. bomb claim The Provisional Irish Republican Army has claimd responsibility for a bomb attack in County Armagh which slightly wounded two police officers and extensively damaged their car. Other attacks would be made on police forces in the region, the I.R.A. said.—Belfast.