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Press, 30 May 1985, Page 6

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Students held

Twenty-five South Korean students, part of a group who seized the United States Information Service library last week, have been placed under formal arrest on charges of violence and interfering with official duties. They were accused of leading the four-day sit-in at the library, which ended on Sunday when they pulled out after marathon conversations with United States officials. — Seoul. A.N.C. blamed A South African Minister said yesterday that an outlawed guerrilla group pledged to overthrow whiteminority rule was probably responsible for a bomb blast at Army medical offices in Johannesburg, in which at least 10 people were injured. The Law and Order Minister, Mr Louis le Grange, said that the blast was in line with .African National Congress strategy, and was caused by a limpet-mine of Soviet origin. — Johannesburg. Fatal mistake Irish republican guerrillas have shot dead a teen-ager at point-blank range in Belfast’s city centre in the apparently mistaken belief that he was a policeman. — Belfast.

Babies named

All five surviving Frustaci septuples have been declared free of liver jaundice, and the names of all seven infants were announced at a hospital news conference. Despite the lack of jaundice for the first time since the infants were born one week ago, one child remained in critical condition. — Orange. Withdrawal date Israel’s Prime Minister. Mr Shimon Peres, said yesterday that the Israeli Army would complete its announced withdrawal from Lebanon next week. "I feel the majority of the nation supports this decision and I think it is a timely, serious, unifying and responsible one," he said. — Tel Aviv. Couple charged Two people have appeared in a Melbourne court charged with the manslaughter of a three-year-old girl. Mr William Maloney, S.M., remanded Joanne Therese Eaton, aged 26, and Marcus Hamilton Barnes, aged 24, to August 15 and continued bail. The police have alleged that the girl died on May 29 after she had allegedly been on a water diet for some time as a cure for a cold. — Melbourne.