RAPE: First in tonight's programme, the vexed topic of sentences for the crime of rape, following news of this morning's sentence of seven years in jail for Raymond Russell Green for the rape component of his crime against Howard Teppett and his sister, the Court of Appeal, in a separate case, has today recommended harsher sentences for crimes of that nature. Merle Nowland
RAPE CRISIS REACT: Meanwhile the Wellington Rape Crisis Centre has reacted we to the apparent increase in sentencing for rape. Chris Bishop i/v Toni Allwoc of the Wellington Rape Crisis Centre
RESOURCE CONSENT: The controversy over the new Thermal power station proposed for Stratford will soon come to a head. Rachel Gilmour
CO2 EMISSIONS: Environment Minister Simon Upton says he's decided to take the debate over future control of carbon dioxide emissions to the public. Richard Griffin i/v Simon Upton - Environment Minister
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RUSSIA: The fourth Ministry of Foreign Affairs sponsored seminars on world issues concerning our membership of the United Nations Security Council was held at the Waikato University today. Andrew McRae
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TOUVIER PRERECORD: In France, the wounds of the second world war are being reopened with the first trial of a French national for crimes against humanist Lynn Terry
BOUGAINVILLE: When Papua New Guinea's prime minister, Paias Wingti, visited Zealand recently he said flatly that there was no blockade on the island of Bougainville...and that the continuing war there between PNG troops and the Bougainville revolutionary Army was relatively quiet.
[illegible] HAVENS: The Serious Fraud Office says it has says it's seen the papers tabled by Winston Peters when he alleged a scram involving New Zealand businessmen and the Cook Islands tax haven laws, and says it has found NO evidence of criminal fraud. Janice Aplin
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NORTH KOREA LIVE: US Secretary of State Warren Christopher has warned North Korea it faces action at the United Nations if it breaks its promise to allow international inspection of its nuclear sites. Professor Andrew Mack - Dept. International Relations, Australian National University - Canberra
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