News and Current Affairs
Main Stories:
Auckland police are hoping a $15,000 reward will flush out the killer of Maramarua publican Chris Bush. Speakers: Gay Bush (Widow), Det Chief Insp Bryan Rowe (Police).
Fiji’s military government has appointed a new judiciary, including a New Zealand expatriate, following the resignation of the whole Fijian Supreme Court. Speakers: Peter Clapshaw (President NZ Law Society), Dr John Cameron (Fijian Law Society).
Health sector wage talks broke down today over a controversial union proposal to combine wage awards covering hospitals and rest homes. Speakers: Enid Frederic (Rest Home Assistant), Rick Barker (Secty Service Workers Federation), Hugh Philbert (Employer Advocate), Sylvia Kelly (Private Hospital Worker).
Other Stories:
Roger Douglas has given a speech today in Australia where he said the Government will keep up the momentum of change in New Zealand society. He also gave his first comment on the share market crash. Speaker: Roger Douglas (Minister of Finance).
There have been further fluctuations in the value of the New Zealand dollar. The share market recovered some lost ground.
The Malaysian lawyer acting for Lorraine and Aaron Cohen, Karpal Singh, has been arrested.
The Soviet Foreign Minister Edward Shevardnaze will visit Washington later this week, and a treaty banning medium range missiles could be signed by the end of the year. Speakers: Boris Pyadyshev (Foreign Ministry Spokesman).
The IRA’s master bomb maker, Gilbert “Danny” McNamee, is beginning a twenty five year jail sentence for making a device which killed four soldiers in Hyde Park in 1982.
A British television crew has made its way into the Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.
Two people accidentally poisoned by nuclear material in Brazil were buried today.
Worldwatch:
Further detail on Edward Shevardnaze’s visit to Washington next week. Speakers: Alexander Belonogov (Soviet Ambassador to the UN), Kenneth Adelman (Director, Arms Control & Disarmament Agency), George Shultz (US Secretary of State).
White House officials met with leaders of Congress for discussions about how to reduce the United States budget deficit. Speakers: Sen Robert Dole (Republican).
Meanwhile, the British share market is still down and the sale of BP remains up in the air.
A profile of jailed IRA bomb maker Gilbert “Danny” McNamee.
The continuing saga of Jim and Tammy Bakker, the disgraced evangelical Christians, is examined. Speakers: Rev Jerry Falwell, Jessica Hahn, William Robinson (Bankruptcy Examiner), Melvin Belli (Bakker’s Attorney), Richard Yao (Fundamentalists Anonymous), Jim Bakker.