1African National Congress (ANC) President Oliver Tambo has met with Prime MInister David Lange tonight in an effort to lobby the New Zealand Government to argue for tougher sanctions on South Africa at the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) meeting later this year.
2Some wholesale interest rates dipped this afternoon.
3Newsweek Magazine is reporting that United States Secretary of State George Shultz has been authorised to offer the Soviets delays in the controversial Star Wars programme, if they stop trying to kill the programme.
4Foreign reporters have been allowed their first look at the almost forgotten war between Chad and Libya.
5This week marks the first anniversary of the United States attack on LIbya.
6Headline News 1. Salvage experts are hoping for better weather so the next stage in the refloating of sunken ship Herald of Free Enterprise can begin 2. Auckland's police chief does not regard a series of 29 sex attacks in three weeks as a sign that things are getting out of hand 3. The Immigration Department's figures show that just over 13,000 Pacific Islanders entered New Zealand during the two and a half months they were not required to have a visa.
7The official swearing in of Fiji's new Prime Minister Dr Timoci Bavadra took place today. Analysis of the election result and the new Government.
8The official swearing in of Fiji's new Prime Minister Dr Timoci Bavadra took place today. Pacific election observers are already speculating that the Fijian election result is a major setback for United States foreign policy in the region. What will the change in Government mean for Pacific foreign relations?
9The widest school curriculum review in forty years has become Government policy, and will determine what will be taught in New Zealand schools into the next century. Among other things, it plans to eliminate racism and sexism and promote Maori language and values. What does the curriculum review suggest, and how have its recommendations been received? Followed by a panel discussion with Joan Paske, President of the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) and Brother Pat Lynch, Principal of De La Salle College, who is suspicious of the report.
10Eyewitness News reporter Rob Harley has made an unprecedented clean sweep of the Sir David Beattie Journalism Awards, announced last night.
11Worldwatch Pope John Paul II has completed his South American tour of Chile, Uruguay and Argentina. The visit was, at times tumultuous and tense and at other times, filled with rapturous audiences.
12Worldwatch The Soviet space mission has achieved a space station link-up after two earlier failures. Experts say the Soviet Union is now well ahead of the United States' space programme.
13Worldwatch The ruling party in Japan has suffered major setbacks in local elections held over the weekend, raising doubts about whether the Japanese Government will be able to implement a planned 5% sales tax.
14Worldwatch British surgeons have brought new hope to a fifteen year old teenage dwarf (little person) by using a new surgical technique that they believe will help him grow.
15Worldwatch Unemployment in Britain is a major problem and one that the Thatcher Government is struggling to deal with. Now many school leavers are joining Government -funded youth training schemes. While most are useful in helping people gain employment, a few are causing controversy.
16Worldwatch Some extreme left-wing inner city Councils in the United Kingdom are causing an uproar over the way they are handling schools in their region. School books have been banned, and teachers dismissed amid allegations of sexism and racism. British streets have been renamed after Black African freedom fighters and they stand accused of indoctrinating young people into radical socialism. While they have been dubbed the Looney Left, many believe they have an agenda of destabilising the British Labour Party and the nation.