P189 CEEFAX 189 Tue 1 Oct 20:41/37 1/2 SOVIET UNION UK retailer Littlewoods is to open two shops in St Petersburg - formerly Leningrad - later this month. It is the first Western retailer to accept roubles as payment. PHILIPPINES Imelda Marcos, widow of former president Ferdinand Marcos, has said she will not be taking her husband's body back there when she returns later this month. The Manila govjrnmjnt has forbidden her to do so. GERMANY Five US skinheads, possibly there to take part in neg-Nazi violence have been arrested after a young man was seriously wounded in a knife attack 102 Newswatch 160 Politics Next News WorldNews Newswatch PoliticsP189 CEEFAX 189 Tue 1 Oct 20:34/48 2/2 VATICAN is to resume full diplomatic relations with the Baltic stater of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. The Vatican never recognised the Soviet annexation of the Baltics in 1940. UNITED STATES President Bush has made $585 million in agricultural credit guarantees available to the Soviet Union. The procedure has been speeded up to help lessen Soviet food shortages GREECE British woman Sheila Skivington is recovering in hospital after plunging 300 feet down a mountain on the Aegean island of Ramos. 102 Newswatch 160 Politics 101 Headlines 160 Politics Next News WorldNews Newswatch Politics