CAMERON GONE: As we heard in the news, the Perry Cameron - Frank Sharp - Warre Cooper affair seems to have been resolved. Kathryn Street
MALLARD/LIVE: Something of a veil of silence has been drawn over the settlement, with neither Mr Cameron or Mr Cooper commenting...but not so Labour's spokesperson for State Services, Internal Affairs and Civil Defence, Trevor Mallard.
PPCS S STREAM: The Dunedin-based meat co-operative, PPCS, has taken over the rights to buy the plant formerly run by the now-collapsed Fortex company at Silverstream. Kate Harray i/v Stewart Barnett
[illegible] PRESTON: On the line now is Tim Preston.
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SECURITY: New Zealand's term on the United Nations security council has come under the spotlight today at a major government-sponsored seminar in Dunedin. Jonathan Schwass
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INFLATION: Figures released today show inflation's creeping higher than expected. Martin Gibson
CRIME PLAN "2": A year-and-a-half after the Crime Preventions Unit was set up by Government to attack New Zealand's rising crime figures, the Prime Minister has today finally announced a strategy. Patrick McLennan
[illegible]: The latest threat of confrontation with Iraq has receded, with the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from the area near the border with Kuwait. Judy Lessing i/v Colin Keating
TOM FREWEN: Tom, as we told you last week, is in England for a few months. And while there, he's casting an eye for Checkpoint over the great events of the day, especially the way the Fourth Estate is reporting them.
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GERMANY: German voters go to the polls on Sunday, with the two major parties facing the prospect they may have to form a coalition to beat-off the East German-based reform communist PDS Party. Debra Harrington i/v Charles Ashton
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