1Social Credit leader Bruce Beetham has accused reporters following his election campaign of conspiring against him to ruin his chances, by trying to set him up in order to discredit the party.

2The Labour Party has released its election manifesto and will sell copies around the country for $1.00 a copy. How does it differ from National's policy document? Social Credit is not releasing a policy document this election campaign, but has re-published a four page booklet called "The Better Way for New Zealand" which was first published last year and broadly states the party's philosophy and policy.

3A lok at how some Dunedin businesses are profiting from the upcoming election, producing pens for ballot boxes and printing material for distribution to voters.

4Cabinet has approved the spending of nearly $140 million to increase and upgrade the Air Force's fleet of Skyhawk combat planes.

5Universal Guarantee Assurance, wound up by the High Court in Auckland, may have outstanding claims of at least $13 million and there is some suggestion that New Zealand creditors are at risk.

6South Australian police have arrested a 21 year old woman said to have driven a getaway car for six prison escapees yesterday. Five prisoners remain at large, and are described as 'extremely dangerous and armed'.

7The Lebanese Government has complained to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) about what it calls 'Israeli aggression'. Israel has continued its attacks on an island near Tripoli which they claim is a base for Palestinian guerrillas. Meanwhile Israel and Syria have traded prisoners for the first time in ten years.

8The United States Congress has passed a Bill requiring State Governments to set a minimum drinking age of 21, or lose some federal funds for roading.

9The South African Government is moving to liberalise the drinking laws as they apply to the Black population. Some of their traditional drinking dens have been legalised and licensed.

10The Polar medal awarded posthumously to Captain Lawrence Edward Grace "Titus" Oates, said to have performed one of the most heroic acts in modern history, has been sold at auction in London for more than $67,000. Oates was a British army officer, and later an Antarctic explorer, who died during the Terra Nova Expedition. Oates, afflicted with gangrene and frostbite, walked from his tent into a blizzard. His death is seen as an act of self-sacrifice when, aware that his ill health was compromising his three companions' chances of survival, he chose certain death.

11There has been much controversy recently about the relationship between politics and sport. In the United States, Congress is discovering that even dancing can become political. Should square dancing be officially named as the National Folk Dance of the United States?

12Campaign Report This election the Values Party has placed candidates in 29 electorates, mostly in the North Island, of whom half are women.