1A car salesman was shot in the shoulder in an attempted robbery in South Auckland this afternoon.

2A fragile truce between two warring groups of Auckland street-kids appears to have fallen apart.

3Prime Minister David Lange leaves on an overseas trip tonight, during which he will visit the United States, United Kingdom, India and Singapore. There is speculation that he may be about to name Sir Edmund Hillary as the new New Zealand High Commissioner to India.

4The New Zealand Party has lashed out at opinion polls, accusing them of dissuading voters from the party in the weeks leading up to the last election.

5The United States dollar lost significant value today after continually rising all week.

6NBC News says it has learned from high ranking Republican Party officials that the Reagan-Bush campaign is running an undercover operation to discredit Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro.

7West Auckland Police are expressing concern that a convicted rapist they continue to regard as dangerous has been released from Paremoremo Maximum Security Prison on health grounds.

8British soldiers guarding the British Ambassador to Lebanon are being credited with saving the American embassy in Beirut from total destruction and a heavier death toll in yesterday's suicide bomb attack.

9New guidelines have been issued regarding health and safety aspects of operating Visual Display Units (VDUs). However, these are not enforceable and the Clerical Workers' Union says too many of its members are suffering the ill effects of using VDU monitors in inappropriate conditions.