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Press, 24 June 1983, Page 6

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Refugee plan Egypt and Israel have agreed in principle to resettle in the Gaza Strip an estimated 5500 Palestinians from a refugee camp in the Egyptian section of the Sinai town of Rafah, said an Israeli Embassy official. He said that after talks held in Rafah the two countries had agreed that the refugees should be sent to the Gaza Strip in batches when an agreement is completed.— Cairo. Colliery disasters Forty-three people have been killed in two mine explosions in Hungary and the United States. Thirty-six miners, including, four Poles, have died in Hungary’s second pit disaster this month. A mine explosion in south-western Virginia has killed seven miners, including a woman and a man three days from retirement, and injured three others. — McClure. Baby panda A baby panda, one of the few bred in captivity by natural means outside China, has been born prematurely in the Mexico City Zoo, according to the zoo administrator, Maria Elena de Hoyos. She said that the new panda was born to Ying Ying and both mother and baby are doing very well. — Mexico City. Moscow summit The Soviet Union is planning a Communist summit conference in Moscow next week which may endorse a Soviet threat to site new nuclear missiles in Eastern Europe if N.A.T.O.’s deployment of new American missiles goes ahead. East European sources revealed yesterday that Moscow was planning the meeting between Communist Party leaders of the seven-nation Warsaw Pact, expected to concentrate on the pact’s response to the planned stationing of new American medium-range missiles in Europe. — Moscow. Attache expelled Norway has ordered the expulsion of a Soviet military attache for activities incompatible with his diplomatic status. The diplomat was named as LieutenantColonel Vladimir Zagrebnev, described in the diplomatic list as assistant military, naval and air attache at the Soviet Embassy in Oslo. Transplant death Andrew Paterson, aged 25, the youngest Briton to undergo two heart transplants, has died in Papworth hospital north of London. Mr Paterson, a former election organiser for Mrs Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Party, died two weeks after receiving his second new heart.—Papworth.