Vanuatu P.M. ill
NZPA-AAP Vila The people of Vanuatu neard nothing on local radio of their-Prime Minister, the Rev. Walter Lini taking ill in Washington early yesterday, and by mid-afternoon, no official report had been released by Government authorities in Vila. Father Lini, aged 42, suffered a cerebral haemorrhage and is reported to be in a stable condition in hospital. He is expected to remain under observation for the next three or four days. Word of Father Lini’s illness spread only through a news broadcast
on Radio Australia. Father Lini has been suffering from malaria, according to reliable sources in Vila, but it is not known if his current illness was a complication of that condition. He has been Prime Minister since Vanuatu became independent of Britain and France in 1980, and has taken an independent line. His government’s oneyear fishing agreement with the Soviet Union, signed last week, has been criticised as allowing the ■Soviets a strategic foothold in the South Pacific.
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