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Press, 8 March 1984, Page 10

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Files wanted Grenada’s interim Government has asked Washington to return all the documents and files it took away from the island after last year’s United States-led invasion. In the second of two Notes sent to the State Department in the last three months, the island’s Advisory Council informed the Reagan Administration that it would like an end to all further publication of the “captured documents” and their return in their “original form.” Among the estimated 27 tonnes of files taken away were military and economic agreements signed by the former Leftist Government with Cuba, the Soviet Union, and other Eastern bloc countries.—St George's Vatican eyes China The Vatican is getting ready to cut its diplomatic ties with Taiwan in the hope of establishing official relations with China, a leading Rome newspaper reports. A Vatican spokesman said of the report in the conservative Rome newspaper, “D Tempo”: “Hie elements that have been reported are concrete, They weren’t invented.” “fi Tempo” said that the Vatican gradually was moving towards diplomatic links with Peking.—Rome. Vetting denied The British Prime Minister, Mrs Margaret Thatcher, has denied a newspaper report that her • Government planned to introduce the political vetting of civil servants. “The Guardian” reported that Mrs Thatcher’s Conservative Government wanted to exclude supporters of Opposition parties from sensitive jobs in the Defence Ministry. But she told Parliament that what civil servants did in their private time was, “wholly a matter for them”—London. Little progress The Indian Prime Minister, Mrs Indira Gandhi says that the Non-Aligned Movement had not achieved much in the last year but that it was moving in the right direction. The Press Trust of India quoted Mrs Gandhi, who this month completes the first of her three years as chairman of the non-aligned group, as saying that the movement was pursuing the direction of reducing global tensions and promoting good will and cooperation among people. Mrs Gandhi said that the movement’s activities included Lebanon, the Gulf war, Nicaragua, and international economic issues.—New Delhi.