Nuclear Guinea Pigs – John Yelash – Medicinal Cannabis x 2 – 13 Tonnes Of Coke – Cold Blast – Russian Seals Victims Of
Nature
NUCLEAR GUINEA PIGS: A Kiwi nuclear guinea-pig veteran recalls experiencing a nuclear test up close. The ball of flame
from the explosion was blinding, says the former wing commander. Another also remembers the experience. Both were given
special clothing and told to walk into the fall out zone. They haven’t had any health problems as a result. The area,
Maralinga, where the test took place, is still deadly. “It was awe-inspiring”, says the veteran.
JOHN YELASH: The Government is looking at how to recover $35,000 of money paid to defamed actor John Yelash. The
Government says that Yelash has breached his own confidentiality clause by saying how much he was paid. In the house
today the Opposition are very concerned about the secrecy clause. Attorney General Margaret Wilson says that Peter
Williams introduced the secrecy clause. Peter Williams denies this absolutely. Yelash says the whole matter makes him
want to go back to prison. JANE YOUNG LIVE: Hugh Rennie QC says that both Wilson and Williams can be right. Rennie says
that Williams may have raised it, as if in passing, but may not have “introduced” it. The Opposition are smelling the
whiff of a win on this. They know the public don’t like secrecy.
MEDICINAL CANNABIS: The US Supreme Court has dealt a blow to AIDs and HIV patients who believe marijuana is a medicine.
The ruling from the supreme court says that co-operatives providing the drug can be shut down. Judge Clarence Thomas
delivered the decision. The decision is a split decision and allows use, just not supply.
MEDICINAL CANNABIS: Pro-cannabis campaigners in NZ say the decision in the US is not a damning blow. Last week
tetraplegic Daniel Clark wasn’t sent to prison for possession of 850 grammes of the drug. Nandor Tanczos says that
clinical trials in the UK of the drug have been very successful.
13 TONNES OF COKE: More than 13 tonnes of cocaine has been found on a fishing boat near San Diego. Authorities were
suspicious that fishing equipment on the boat did not work. The cocaine is worth more than a billion dollars.
COLD BLAST: Canterbury received a blast of wind, rain and hail today. Fueled by a cold front, those caught unawares were
shocked by speed of the storm’s arrival. A frosty night is expected overnight by Augie Auer. At Mt Hutt the first day of
snow making is welcomed with the southerly blast. Wellington’s balmy summer was also brought to a quick end by the cold
front.
SEALS STUCK IN WHITE SEA: Thousands of seal pups are starving to death in the Arctic because of a cruel act of nature.
They are stranded in the White Sea, miles away from their feeding grounds. They were supposed to be blown to their
feeding grounds. On shore soldiers have begun feeding some seals.