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0700 NEWS BSE - British beef and beef products banned worldwide by European Union. British govt reports U-turn in policy on disease. (Keith Chalkley). BSE - should NZ meat producers capitalise on British counterparts' misfortune as Conservative Party leader Trevor Rogers says? (q). Meat Board chair John Acland takes more gentlemanly approach - i/ved live. WAITING LISTS - renewed concern about CHEs stopping elective surgery for set periods because of lack of money. Live i/v with head of Crown Health Enterprise Assn, Dr Brent Layton, about the reasons. SECONDARY TEACHERS almost certain to impose ban on new qualifications and curriculum work following concerns over pay and workload. Govt-appointed committee has examined workload and reported to ministry but PPTA says it hasn't even seen it. Live i/v with PPTA president Martin Cooney; live i/v with Education ministry's acting policy group manager Elizabeth Eppel.
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS UNLEADED PETROL - oil industry stops short of taking full liability for problems with 96 Octane despite BP managing director Rick Webber telling Parliamentary select committee there appears to be correlation between regions with high aromatic levels and car fuel problems. Comment from industry spokesperson Beppie Holm, and Tony Whitehead, pilot who first alerted country to the problem. (Corinne Ambler); live i/v with select committee chair Rob Storey. ASSASSIN - Yigal Amir sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of murdering Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin. Live i/v with Hersh Goodman, "Jerusalem Report". ALEXANDRA SUBSIDENCE - locals' fight for compensation following last year's floods continues. Local generator Contact Energy meets locals to discuss situation. Live i/v with Alexandra resident Laurence O'Connell; live i/v with Contact Energy spokesman Bruce Thompson. FINANCE - latest from money markets. (David Jones)
0800 NEWS/WEATHER BSE - some scientists fear that odds on infection may shorten from about one in a million to considerably less in coming years. Live i/v with British microbiologist Dr John Garland, whose wife died from Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease. EDUCATION VOUCHERS - Labour's Education spokesman David Caygill claims govt introducing funding trial in association with Te Puni Kokiri but govt adamant it has nothing to do with introducing voucher system. Comment from David Caygill, Education minister Wyatt Creech, and Māori Affairs minister John Luxton. (Janice Rodenburg) RAPE - first major national conference in 10 years being held in WN, will look at developments since 1985 rape law reform. Live i/v with conference speaker Jan Jordan, VUW criminology lecturer. PAPERS/ASPAC HEADLINES RABBIT VIRUS - Agriculture ministry says more tests needed to confirm kiwi completely safe from calicivirus but gorup wanting to import virus is proceeding as planned and hopes for approval before Spring. Live i/v with Rural chief reporter Wendy McGregor. VANUATU apears to have escaped serious damage from Cyclone Beti. RNZAF Orion checks some of the archipelago for damage but Sqdn Ldr Grant Crossland says storm caused far fewer problems than other cyclones have done. (Mng Rpt)
0830 NEWS/SPORTS COOK ISLANDS TAX INQUIRY - former Auditor General Brian Tyler enters 5th day on stand, undergoing stiff questioning by Serious Fraud Office over accusations that Cook Islands ministers were issuing false tax credit certificates. Live i/v with "National Business Review's" business editor Fran O'Sullivan. MATAHINA DAM - ECNZ moves urgently to lower level of lake following report that fault lines under dam are active. Dam built 30 years ago when it was thought illegible fault line was inactive. Comment from local MP Tony Ryall, geologist Dr illegible Hull, Edgecumbe builder Vladimir Archipow. (Paula Penfold); live i/v with ECNZ's generation general manager Kieran Devine. COMMENT PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN - Senator Dole declares himself winner of Republican candidacy. Live i/v with correspondent Judy Lessing. FRUIT AND VEG REPORT with Jack Forsythe.