Checkpoint. 1990-07-10

CHEMICAL WEAPONS: Three days after it began burning old chemical weapons at Johnston Island, south west of Hawaii, the United States is telling the Pacific it has nothing to worry about.
Report by Jonathan Schwass
Poka Laenui, VP of World Council of Indigenous People
AUST. PRIVATISATION: In Australia, the thorny issue of privatisation has risen again within the governing Labour Party.
Report by ABC - ex Aussat
Bob Hogg, National Sec. of A.L.P.
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT: Many managerial and accounting systems need to be dragged into the 1990s to keep up with new technologies...well that's the view of Keith Ridler, Chief Executive of PA Consulting Group's Technology division in Europe.
Report by Martin Gibson
Keith Ridler, PA Consulting
COMPUTER SEX: One product of Research and Development is the home computer - now part of the household furniture...but it seems there's little to prevent sophisticated users - and often they're kids - tapping into pornographic material otherwise banned in New Zealand.
Report by Bronwen Evans
Charlie Lear, Editor, Computing Today
Jim Higgins, ex Pres. Computer Soc.