1The biggest mass protest in twenty years took place overnight in Czechoslovakia. This was the fourth day of protest in Prague, with over 100,000 people calling for reform and an end to Communist rule.

2In an uncompromising speech to the Communist Party Congress, Romanian President Nicolae Ceaușescu has ignored all calls for reform, even those from the Soviet Union and Hungary.

3Conciliatory moves by the East German Government do not appear to have satisfied a population hungry for reform.

4New Zealanders are being asked to provide financial assistance for the thousands of refugees fleeing from intense fighting in El Salvador. Heavy fighting between Government troops and rebel forces shows no sign of abating. More than 1000 people have now been killed.

5Pol Pot's feared Khmer Rouge, driven out by the Vietnamese a decade ago, is again threatening Cambodia.

6There have been new allegations that South African police ran a death squad that routinely assassinated anti apartheid activists and political opponents of the Government.

7Representatives from twenty Pacific nations and territories have gathered in Wellington where they will spend the next week analysing details of a convention banning drift net (wall of death) fishing practices.

8Anti apartheid group Halt All Racist Tours (HART) plans to contact the United Nations (UN) following its decision to remove ten former All Blacks from the UN South African Blacklist.

9Two hundred incurably ill children from around the world have taken off from Heathrow Airport on the trip of a lifetime to visit Disneyworld in the United States.