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Press, 6 September 1989, Page 10

Cable briefs

‘Crushing poverty’ Member States of the Non-Aligned Movement complained at their Belgrade summit meeting that they were still threatened by crushing poverty and simmering regional conflicts in spite of a general improvement in big power ties. As the four-day conference began, Yugoslavia and other moderates tried to persuade the 102-member grouping that better United States-Soviet relations and disarmament moves promised benefits for all.-NZPA Exercise success Defence chiefs have declared Australia’s biggest peacetime military exercise a success, but conceded it revealed certain gaps. “We demonstrated that Australia is capable of defending itself,” said the Defence Minister, Kim Beazley, of the sAustl4s million (SIBSM) operation, codenamed Kangaroo 89, which in August simulated an enemy attack on northern Australia.— NZPA Brothers in flames Five workers from a South Korean kitchenware company set fire to themselves demanading the management shelve a plan to sack union leaders, the police said. The five were admitted to hospital with severe burns in the western city of Inchon after dousing themselves with petrol and setting themselves on fire in the office of a company executive. The executive also suffered burns as the protesters scuffled with him.—NZPA