News and Current Affairs.
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A Government advisory committee today published a report calling for a massive increase in funding of informal adult education. The reports findings are examined. Speakers: Jack Shallcrass (Committee Chairman), Phil Goff (Assoc Minister of Education), Tai Thompson (Te Ataarangi Student), Marg Leniston (General Secretary WEA).
Fiji’s Information Minister is visiting New Zealand and is interviewed about laws restricting activities on Sundays and allegations of human rights violations. Speaker: Ratu Inoke Kububola (Fiji Minister of Information).
An Audit Department investigation into the Mana Enterprises scheme is due out soon. The accusations and the work of the scheme in two parts of the country are examined. Speakers: Winston Peters (MP, Tauranga), Alayna Watene (Mana Co-Ordinator, Hawke’s Bay), Bert Mackie (Mana Chairman), Peter Wiari (Loan Applicant), George Marshall (Loan Recipient), Mike Potaka (kaitangata Trust), Jo Maniapoto (Mana Co-ordinator, Wanganui).
Other Stories:
The three yearly liquor referendum seems to be on the way out as Geoffrey Palmer has called for reform in liquor licensing laws. Speaker: Geoffrey Palmer (Minister of Justice).
Energy Minister David Butcher has signalled that the Government wants the Marsden Point oil refinery kept open and wants more competition in the industry.
In the United States at least 26 people have been killed in an DC-9 air crash at Denver Airport.
The British Government has opened its case in the Wellington High Court to stop the publication of extracts from the book “Spycatcher”. David Lange has authorised New Zealand security chief Gerald Hensley to give evidence in support of the British Government.
An elderly man was rescued from the top of scaffolding in Dunedin today, after a two hour drama.
Roman Catholics have been told it is a sin to belong to the IRA, a week after the devastating Enniskillen bombing. Speakers: Father Richard McMahon (St Gerards, Belfast), Most Rev Cahal Daly (Bishop of Down & Connor).
Senior United States and USSR negotiators are meeting in Geneva to clear the way for a summit between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.
The New Zealand share market opened the week on a steady note. However Kupe Group lost nearly one third of its value due to losses associated with Judge Corporation holdings.
Worldwatch:
Time is running out to find an agreement on the United States budget deficit. Speakers: Ronald Reagan (US President), Pete Domenici (Republican), Lawton Chiles (Chairman, Budget Committee), Dan Rostenkowski (Chairman, Ways & Means Committee), Bob Michel (Minority Leader), William Simon (Fmr Treasury Secretary).
A report on “Secret Society” a controversial documentary that has been banned from broadcast in Britain and includes details about the secret Xircon satellite. The BBC has been raided by police in response to the documentary. Speakers: Sir Ronald Mason (Fmr Science Advisor Defense Ministry), Sir Frank Cooper (Former Under-Secretary of State for Defence), Duncan Campbell (Freelance Journalist), Robert Shelton (MP), Donald Kerr (Institute for Strategic Studies).
Govan Mbeki has given his first television interview since being released from jail in South Africa and has made a plea for an end to interracial violence. Speakers: Govan Mbeki (Released ANC Leader), Roelof “Pik” Botha (South African Foreign Minister).
Two Mexican prisoners associated with the drug trade attempted a daring jail break out. Speaker: Jose Ortega Padillo (Mexican Deputy Attorney General).
A report on Operation Tiger in which over 700 Allied servicemen were killed in a D-Day practice run. Speakers: Julian Perkin (HMS Obedient), Manny Ruben (Survivor), Dorothy Seekings (Witness).