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Press, 10 January 1986, Page 6

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U.S. farm despair A United States Govern- . ment farm agency official in South Dakota, apparently • troubled about his job, killed . his wife and two children and then committed suicide, , said police. Last month in ■ neighbouring lowa, in the heart of the troubled farm . belt, a financially desperate farmer, Mr Dale Burr, with debts of SUSBOO,OOO . ($1,600,000), killed his wife, ' the president of his local bank, a neighbour and him- > self. — Elk Point, South Dakota. Executive shot A senior sales executive • for Belgium’s largest arms maker has been found dead . in his car, his body riddled ' by six bullets, a public pro- . secutor said. There was no clue as to who killed Mr . Juan Mendez-Playa, aged 33. — Brussels. Devices blown Britain’s bomb squad blew up four devices that animal rights activists planted under the cars of men linked with animal research experiments. — London. Plane missing The United States Sixth Fleet said a fighter plane from the aircraft carrier Coral Sea was missing and believed lost at sea in the Mediterranean. — Naples. Mental patient A high school student aged 17, a member of an unofficial Soviet peace group, has been arrested and sent to a mental hospital after taking part in a demonstration in memory of John Lennon, said the group. — Moscow.