EYEWITNESS NEWS. 09/02/1987

Current Affairs.

Multiple reports on the Maori loans affair following Cabinet's rejection of the Minister of Maori Affairs, Koro Wetere's, resignation. Winston Peters (Opposition Spokesperson for Maori Affairs); Ranginui Walker (Auckland District Maori Council); Pat Hohepa; Ata Poananga; Graham Latimer; David Lange.

Lebanese hostage crisis - demand that 400 Palestinians in Israel be released Caspar Weinberger; George Schultz; David Jacobson (Ex-hostage).

The new openness in the USSR - how deep does it go? Serguei Chetverikov (Ministry of Foreign Affairs); Valentina Parshina (Deputy, Supreme Soviet); Dimitri Simes (CBS News Correspondent).

Haiti- fear of another coup.

Surrogate mothers - the legal precedent created by the case of Mary Beth Whitehead, who refused to give the child up.

The use of condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS - the case of the Rev Carl Titchener, a Unitarian minister, who gives out condoms during his church services (in New York), but has encountered opposition, particularly from the Catholics.

A report on Aussie Strine - the Australian version of the Queen's English

A conference weekend for young inventors in the US.