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Press, 28 November 1987, Page 12

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Job-creation wanted The adoption of "concerted measures to ensure job-creating growth” was recommended at the International Labour Organisation conference on social implications of economic policy. In its final text, this week’s conference, attended by representatives of some 20 countries, including Japan, France, Canada, Italy, Venezuela and Argentina, noted unemployment had reached “alarming proportions” and was continuing to grow. The conference recommended “structural adjustment” worldwide to arrive at “dynamic and non-inflationary growth.” — Geneva. Gorbachev visit The Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, will visit Britain on his way to Washington for his summit with President Ronald

Reagan next month, the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, said. He is due to meet Mr Reagan in Washington between December 7 and 10 to sign the recently-com-pleted treaty banning in-termediate-range nuclear missiles. It will be Mr Gorbachev’s second visit to Britain but his first since he became leader in March 1985. — London. I.R.A. man held An escaped I.R.A. prisoner, Paul Kane, at the centre of an extradition row between Britain and Ireland, has finally been arrested with a much delayed warrant from British police in Belfast. Kane, in and out of custody five times since Monday because of an extradition mixup, was one of the first big catches in a security dragnet thrown across the Northern Ireland border this week by British and

Irish security forces searching for>I.R.A. arms. The two sides, eager to show their determination to crush the Irish Republican Army (1.R.A.), sent in thousands of troops and soldiers backed by helicopters and patrol boats. — Dublin. Hostage release Th pro-Iranian Revolutionary Justice Organisation said it would release two French hostages in Muslim west Beirut within the coming 24 hours. “The Revolutionary Justice Organisation announces its good will intentions to release two French hostages within the coming 24 hours,” said a handwritten statement in Arabic sent to the independent “An-Nahar” newspaper. — Beirut Mbeki to speak Authorities in Port Elizabeth have granted

conditional permission for a rally to be addressed by recently freed African National Congress (A.N.C.) and South African Communist Party stalwart, Govan Mbeki, aged 77. Regulations under the state of emergency imposed in June, 1986, prohibit outdoor political meetings without permission. Port Elizabeth’s chief magistrate gave permission for the restricted Mbeki rally. — Port Elizabeth. ‘Spycatcher’ loophole The British Government is urgently considering ways of plugging the “American loophole" which allowed the retired MIS officer, Peter Wright, to publish his book “Spycatcher” in the United

States, the Cabinet Secretary, Sir Robert Armstrong told the London High Court — London.