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Press, 24 October 1984, Page 10

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Policy criticised Lord Carrington, the secre-tary-general of N.A.T.O. said last evening that a nonnuclear policy in Europe would allow Moscow to hold the West hostage. “The fact is — and it cannot be wished away — that the Soviet Union has a massive nuclear capacity. A non-nuclear strategy on the part of the West could translate this into a monopoly,” he said.—New York. Frog problem Indonesia’s Muslim Scholar Council will study whether Islam prohibits frog breeding, a project now planned by the mainly Muslim country. The Junior Minister for Husbandry Products, Mr Johannes Hutasoit, had said that the Government planned to start frog breeding for exports. Early this month Muslim scholars in west Sumatra ruled that Islam did not prohibit- Muslim followers from eating frogs.— Jakarta. E.E.C. workless Officially-registered unemployed in the European Economic Community, excluding Greece, rose 2.7 per cent in September to 12.7 million, giving a year-on-year rise of 5.5 per cent, the E.E.C. Statistics Office reports. The September figure amounted to 11.3 per cent of the work-force. Job-seekefs totalled six million five years ago. Of the September total, 42.8 per cent of job-seekers were women, and 40.7 per cent were people aged under 25—Brussels. Match-maker The Singapore Government says that it has created a Social Development Unit to provide opportunities for single men and women to meet. The Finance Minister, Mr Tony Tan, said that the Government had set up the unit in January to “correct” the high incidence of unmarried graduate women.— Singapore.