TIMOR: Pro-Indonesia militiamen shot and burned their way through the East Timor capital of Dili yesterday, with more
than 100 people feared dead.
PORIRUA GUNMAN: A bullet broke a window pane on a train going from Wellington to Auckland while passing through Porirua.
SUICIDE OUTNUMBERS ROAD DEATHS: Kiwi coroners are appalled to learn that more New Zealanders kill themselves than die in
road crashes.
Y2K BREAKDOWNS: None of the Y2K breakdowns predicted for the turn of the century are expected to be covered by
insurance, according to the Insurance Council.
BREAK IN: The Diplomat Protection Squad is playing down links between a break-in at the Chinese Embassy in Wellington at
the weekend and Chinese President Jiang Zemin’s arrival in New Zealand this week.
POLITICAL WEEK: With Victoria Main – APEC Takes Focus Off National’s Domestic Performance.
NATIONAL LIST: PM Jenney Shipley and Wyatt Creech head the top of a predictable party list with sitting MPs filling the
top 19 slots.
EMPLOYERS OUT OF LOOP: Labour leader Helen Clark hit out at the Employers Federation yesterday, two days before Labour
launch their Industrial Relations policy.
QUIGLEY: ACT MP Derek Quigley is retirng from politics after a career which first saw him elected to parliament in 1975.