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Press, 25 July 1984, Page 10

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Ordia pleased The change of Government in New Zealand has been welcomed by one of the Muldoon Administration’s opponents, an African sports chief, Abraham Ordia. “I only hope the good name of New Zealand will now be restored,” Dr Ordia said. “This (the election) was a welcome development.” — Los Angeles. Boy ‘very brave’ A boy aged just five punched and kicked a middle-aged man who made a sex attack on his four-year-old girl playmate in a subway in Bristol. She screamed when the scruffy, bearded man, aged about 50, assaulted her, and her young friend leapt to the rescue causing the attacker to run away. A police spokesman said, “This was a very serius sexual assault on a young girl and he’s a very brave little boy.” — London. Crash kills envoy A Spanish diplomat was killed and up to 150 people were injured when two Amtrak passenger trains collided head-on in New York yesterday. The crash, which occurred on an elevated track, derailed both engines cars of the trains, wht§i were carrying between

500 and 700 passengers. — New York Cancer inquiry The British Government said yesterday that it would probe cases of cancer around a nuclear plant in northern England, which environmentalists assert is causing leukaemia among local children. An official report by a leading British physician, Sir Douglas Black, said that there was no evidence of any general health risk to people living near Sellafield, described as the world’s biggest civilian nuclear reprocessing plant But it called for a more detailed study of cancer near Sellafield and the Government accepted the recommendation. — London. Bush- fire claims The South Australian Electricity Trust is facing 173 Supreme Court writs claiming damages for loss of property in last year’s Ash Wednesday bush-fires. Property owners in the southeast of the state have lodged 170 writs, while others come from property owners at Clare in the mid-north and McLaren Flat, south of Adelaide. A solicitor representing property owners in the southeast said that there were probably 300 potential claimants in that region waiting for the-outcome of the first Adelaide. 4