Peter Doone - Maori Citizenship - God's Army Hostage Row- Americas Cup - Antarctic Reunion - Northern Ireland Peace
Process
PETER DOONE: Peter Doone's future as the Commissioner of Police is set to be decided this morning. Sir Geoffrey Palmer
says that the Government has the power to ask the Governor General to sack the Commissioner.
MAORI CITIZENSHIP: Minister of Immigration intends to take action against a South Auckland legal center involved with
the Maori citizenship row. Manakau Legal Services is not a law firm says the Minister. The business says it has done
nothing wrong.
GOD'S ARMY: The Prime Minister of Thailand has arrived to talk to Burmese guerillas -self style as God's Army - who have
taken hundreds of hostages in a hospital. The hostage takers have asked for helicopters.
AMERICAS CUP: High winds could disrupt the Louis Vuiton Cup finals series due to start today. At present winds are
gusting to 40 knots on the course.
ANTARCTIC REUNION: Scott Base is to host a reunion of pioneer polar explorers involved in a race to the South Pole in
the 1960s.
NORTHERN IRELAND: Irish police have intercepted an arms cache on the move in Ireland. The arms belong to the "continuity
IRA" a dissident IRA group which wants to continue the war to liberate Ireland.