The Lovebug – Pop Mania – Hastings Homicide – Brierley’s Fishing Assets – Russell Crowe – Waitara Shooting – Kiwi Women
– Inside Political Headlines – Editorial Vietnam
THE LOVEBUG: The Dominion leads today with a report that the computer love bug virus has taken on multiple identities
and could cause mayhem for computer users returning to work today, experts say.
POP MANIA: The front-page photo shows hordes of teenage girls waiting for hours at Queens Wharf for British pop band
Five.
Also on the front page:
- HASTINGS HOMICIDE: a report that Hastings police have begun a homicide inquiry after a 38-year-old Clive man was found
dead on the side of the road in a suspected hit-and-run incident 10 kilometres north of Hastings yesterday morning;
- BRIERLEY’S FISHING ASSETS: a report that the Government has rejected all the overseas bids for Brierley’s half share
in New Zealand’s biggest fishing company , Sealord;
- RUSSELL CROWE: a report that NZ-born Hollywood star Russell Crowe dashed to New Zealand on Saturday after the
glamorous opening of his new movie Gladiator in Australia to give a private showing of the film to his very ill uncle,
David Crowe, 66;
- WAITARA SHOOTING: a report that the policeman who shot Steven Wallace had fired on duty before, but had not hit
anyone, police said yesterday;
- KIWI WOMEN: a report that far from being shrill or emotional, NZ women are more understanding and interested in a
clear, two-way conservation than their men-folk, speech research suggests.
Inside Political Headlines:
- Would the real National Party and its leader please stand up?
- Fears raised over legal aid for inquiry;
- Spectrum rights plan “dangerous”;
- J-Day at Victoria University – photo;
- Prebble cries foul over TV3 donations;
- Bee mite spread feared.
EDITORIAL – VIETNAM: What has the triumphant victory of the Northern Communists in Vietnam meant in the south.