Checkpoint. 1987-04-22.

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Year
1987
Reference
140148
Media type
Audio
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Rights Information
Year
1987
Reference
140148
Media type
Audio
Series
Checkpoint, 1984-03-01, 1985-05-31, 1986-01-13--1998-10-30, 2000-05-08--2014
Categories
Nonfiction radio programs
Radio news programs
Radio programs
Sound recordings
Duration
00:25:15
Credits
RNZ Collection
Kim Hill, 1955-, Presenter
Bronwen Evans, Producer
Janice Aplin, Reporter
National Radio (N.Z.) 1986-2007, Broadcaster

Checkpoint programme starts after the news and weather forecast:

1. Fiji Governor General publicly warned against violence today - in an attempt to calm a nation which has been shaken by demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience against the newly elected Government there.
Report by Bronwen Evans
Vimal Madhavan, Writer, Islands Business Magazine
Brij Lal, Political Scientist

2. Libya's Colonel Gaddafi has been turning his attention to the Pacific. Libya has just hosted a four-day conference on the region, and the Libyan leader ended the meeting with a call for revolutionary and pacifist groups in the region to rally their forces to fight imperialism.
Report by Janice Aplin
Bill Hartley, General Secretary, Arab-Libya Australian Friendship Society
David Hegarty, Strategic Studies Centre, ANU

3. The communal violence in Sri Lanka broke new records yesterday, when a car bomb, blamed on Tamil separatists, ripped through the main bus station in the capital Colombo, killing some one hundred and fifty people.
Report by Kim Hill
BBC Tape
Neville da Silva, Journalist
Patricia Hyndman, Senior Law Lecturer, University of NSW