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Press, 10 September 1985, Page 6

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Heart man well Michael Drummond, aged 25, walked, talked, ate breakfast, and was in good spirits just 24 hours after doctors replaced an artificial heart with a human organ in an unprecedented procedure. — Tuscon. Off to join the Legion Two teenagers who said they were “rowing to the Sudan” were yesterday on their way back to be reunited with their parents after being rescued in their plastic dinghy off Dover. Clinton Bailie and Steven Hailsworth, both 15, from Colchester, Essex, told rescuers they had planned to row to the Sudan “to join the Foreign Legion.” — London.

Skeletons buried Thousands of people have attended the burial of about 1500 skeletons in a mass grave at Gomba, 100 km west of Uganda’s capital. The skeletons were the remains of Ugandans who died in the area, the scene of clashes between anti-Government guerrillas and Government troops over the last four years. — Kampala. Popularity wanes French President Francois Mitterrand’s popularity has dropped to 38 per cent from 40 per cent a year ago, according to an opinion poll published last week-end. The poll also showed that the popularity of the Prime Minister, Mr Laurent Fabius, was on the wane with 47 per cent expressing confidence, down from 53 per cent last September. — Paris. Informers shot A woman was shot dead and a man wounded by the I.R.A. in Catholic west Belfast. The Irish Republican Army said the two had been working as police informers for the last 18 months. — Belfast.