1There are indications tonight that a compromise deal is taking shape over the Labour Party's Auckland Central wrangle, despite the fact that Auckland Central MP Richard Prebble proceeded today with his legal action against the Party. Studio analysis with political reporter Richard Harman.

2Analysis of the latest Eyewitness News / Heylen political poll.

3The jury has returned a guilty verdict in the kidnapping trial of former Greytowm commune leader Andy Narain. He has been convicted of seven out of eight charges of kidnapping.

4The head of Carrington Psychiatric Hospital's Maori Unit (Whare Paia), Titewhai Harawira has returned to the hospital along with around 100 of her supporters, in defiance of Auckland Hospital Board (AHB) instructions to stay away.

5Auckland police are investigating a firebomb attack near Prime Minister David Lange's home in Mangere.

6The America's Cup defenders unveiled their revolutionary catamaran Stars and Stripes in San Diego today. In New York today, the New Zealand Challenge put its case to have the American multi-hull banned before a judge.

7A confidential report published in France today claims the bloodbath during the New Caledonia hostage drama could have been avoided.

8Some Te Puke residents say the tiny Bay of Plenty town is being held to ransom by a minority of lawbreakers. The death of a local kindergarten teacher in a road crash has plunged the town into a fierce debate over law and order and race relations.

9Worldwatch The Reagan Administration announced today that talks aimed at getting Panama's military leader General Manuel Noriega to step down have collapsed. How has Noriega been able to defy every attempt by Washington to remove him? United States President Ronald Reagan has arrived in Helsinki, en route to his Summit meeting with Soviet leader MIkhail Gorbachev in Moscow. However, he is being dogged by reporters who are more interested in the situation between the United States and Panama's General Noriega.

10Worldwatch A preview of the upcoming Moscow Summit which will be United States President Ronald Reagan's fourth meeting with Soviet leader MIkhail Gorbachev, and his first visit to the Soviet Union. A look at the preparations underway in Moscow for the Summit. It has been fourteen years since an American President last visited the Soviet Union, and in that time the attitude of the two countries toward each other has moved from enthusiasm for détente to hardening suspicion. However, the Soviet people are now starting to change their minds about the United States, thanks largely to the Soviet media being less 'selective' about the way they portrayed America and its people. American networks today began transmitting live from Moscow, reporting on the new spirit of Glasnost (openness).