Briefs

Press, 5 December 1989, Page 11

Briefs

•O»w . ? >«fewould<us« the, money from • WMW«6fiSliJW9<J?njfe- to j help alleviate world hunger, fund ?, r pr4nc»te forexiled . deceive; ,••jk< ’ ’ worth $765,000, at a ceremony in Oslo on Sunday.—NZPA-Reuter,... '•■• '■ a*-.;'‘ Falklands bang Argentina has lifted a ’ ban preventing British commercial and private vessels and places from using its ports and airports which had been, in force since the 1982 Falklands War, Argentinian news agencies reported yesterday. British sea and air transport vessels may use any Argentine river, sea or airport from Saturday, according to .instructions given by the Foreign Ministry to other govemtrient departments— NZPA-Reuter. U.S. thaw Popular feeling in the United States towards the Soviet Union has risen to levels of approval not-seen since the end of World War 11, when the two countries were allies against Nazi 'Germany. Thirty-six per centi-.of those questioned in a “New York Times”-CBS poll said they believed the Soviet Union was essentially a peace-loving nation, compared with 42 per cent who thought it was an aggressive nation that would declare war if necessary, to obtain whatv it wanted. The result of the telephone poll were similar to those obtained in 1945 in a poll published by a magazine, "Fortune,” the “New York Times” noted.— NZPA-AFP. Nun resting A Nobel laureate, Mother Teresa, was resting comfortably yesterday two days after 1 surgeons implanted a pacemakeEto restore normalcy* in her Heartbeats, hospital sources said.-. The Roman Catholic nun, agedsj9, who suffered a heart attack* in September was to Woodlands Nursing Home‘/ with high blood pressure and giddiness on Wednesday. “She is doing fine,” said a hospital source.— NZPA-AP. Xi’ Bhopal arrests About 300 survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster were arrested when they marched to the closed-down Union Carbide factory on the fifth anniversary of the world’s worst industrial pcident. More than 3600 people" died after 40 tonnes of poisonous methylisocyanate spewed oyt.of a chemical plant owned by<&e Indian subsidiary of the United States Union Carbide Corporation in 1984. Demonstrators pelted police buses with stones when ’ security forces stopped ...the demonstration near the factory gate, but no-one was injured, Police Superintendent David said.—NZPA-Reuter. Smog concern A thick pall of smog enveloping Dublin is almost four times above European Community limits. “People are dying and will continue to die because, of smog,” a respiratory consultant, Dr Luke Clancy, said. Monitoring station figures published yesterday revealed the worst figures so far this year in the Irish capital — 916 microgrammes of smoke per cubic metre of air.—NZPAReuter. - Insane verdict;

A Melbourne vagrant wrio killed, mutilated and cannibalised a Korean man has been ordered to be kept indefinitely; in a maximum security mental hospital after being declared insane by a Supreme Court jury ;in Melbourne.—NZPA-AAP.