1Pornography Auckland strip club magnate Rainton Hastie has caused outrage with his plans to open an Adult X-rated video parlour in Queen Street. Extraordinarily, no one was morally offended by the concept of porn, just the fact that the parlour was to be sited in the midst of Auckland's premier shopping centre. Do New Zealanders want these sorts of video parlours? Who can afford skin flicks at $100 per video? Are they any worse than any other business out to profit from human weaknesses. Discussion and viewer talkback with Rainton Hastie about the increasing demand for access to porn.
2Prime Minister David Lange says the Government has no intention of becoming involved in the Tasman Pulp and Paper mill dispute in Kawerau.
3Reporters have been prevented from covering action by South African security forces in Soweto against townspeople attempting to hold a mass funeral for victims of last week's violence. However, reports are that it was a massive show of military strength.
4The captains on both the sunken Soviet passenger ship SS Admiral Nakhimov and the cargo ship that rammed it, have been arrested for violating safety rules. 116 bodies have now been recovered but 282 people are still missing.
5A brief listing of the New Zealand news headlines.
6An inquest in England has heard that Olivia Channing, daughter of Britain's Trade Secretary Paul Channing, died from a lethal mixture of heroin, champagne and Guinness. The coroner has ruled it was death by misadventure.
7United States President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan will appear on television in ten days time to warn against the dangers of taking crack cocaine.
8Pornography Auckland strip club magnate Rainton Hastie has caused outrage with his plans to open an Adult X-rated video parlour in Queen Street. Extraordinarily, no one was morally offended by the concept of porn, just the fact that the parlour was to be sited in the midst of Auckland's premier shopping centre. Do New Zealanders want these sorts of video parlours? Who can afford skin flicks at $100 per video? Are they any worse than any other business out to profit from human weaknesses. Discussion and viewer talkback with Rainton Hastie about the increasing demand for access to porn.
9A brief listing of the national and international news headlines.
10Auckland strip club magnate Rainton Hastie has caused outrage with his plans to open an Adult X-rated video parlour in Queen Street. Extraordinarily, no one was morally offended by the concept of porn, just the fact that the parlour was to be sited in the midst of Auckland's premier shopping centre. Do New Zealanders want these sorts of video parlours? Who can afford skin flicks at $100 per video? Are they any worse than any other business out to profit from human weaknesses. Discussion and viewer talkback with Rainton Hastie about the increasing demand for access to porn.
11A brief listing of the New Zealand news headlines.
12Chilean opposition groups have marked the 17th anniversary of the last free election in Chile. A so-called Democracy Day was called, provoking an immediate response from the military Government.
13In the United States, it is becoming clear that increasing drug use has caused in explosion in violent crimes. A look at the situation in Detroit, Michigan, which has the highest murder rate of any American city.
14New Jersey Police have capped off a three-year investigation by smashing a mafia operation within two big casinos.
15Harvard University - the oldest university in the United States, and one of its most prestigious - is marking its 350th anniversary, with the help of Prince Charles.
16A new school has opened in Northern Ireland with the express purpose of breaking the traditional of separate Catholic and Protestant education.