The top 20 rating items on Scoop at the weekend were...
They show what appear to be Indonesian troops gunning down a youth in the street's of East Timor as he runs away.
What is really going on in East Timor and Jakarta? Scoop's Alastair Thompson surveys the limited sources of information
currently available and attempts to reconcile what is clearly a very complicated crisis.
Scoop understands that some filming for the massive trilogy The Lord Of The Rings is to take place in the countryside
West of Masterton.
A front-page New York Times article about the precarious situation in East Timor (9/12/99) began by reporting that
Indonesian "Gen. Wiranto, conceded Saturday that he had lost control of elements of his military" that were operating on
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Scoop House Coverage: Snippets of the debate. Jenny Shipley, Helen Clark, Jim Anderton, Ron Mark, Richard Prebble,
Jeanette Fitzsimons and Peter Dunne on NZ's East Timor peacekeeping deployment.
A picture and poem.
A picture and poem.
Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today she will announce the date of the 1999 general election following a special
caucus to be held in Auckland on Sunday 26 September.
Prebble's Rebels New Zealand President Clint Heine is delighted with the results of the Victoria University Students
Association (VUWSA) student elections.
Richard Prebble's admission that he's finally taken up residence in Wellington poses more questions about the embattled
Act leader's fixed abode.
"OUSA cries like a baby whenever their political monopoly is challenged" said Mr Heine, the national president of
Prebble's Rebels.
With an almost identical support base, the biggest head to head party clash in the coming election promises to be
between New Zealand First and the Alliance. Early signs show the Alliance suffering as the Peters campaign takes hold.
Jonathan Hill ...
The Sunday Papers report extensively on NZ's decision to commit troops to peacekeeping troops to East Timor.
The Minister of Tertiary Education, Max Bradford claimed in the latest Women’s Weekly (20th Sept); “We have seen no hard
evidence of students being denied bank loans, putting off buying houses or delaying starting families as a result of
their student ...
Meanwhile there is a whole bunch of other stuff happening too...including an announcement of an announcement date for
the next election.
THE AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION (INC.) TE ROOPU TAUIRA O TE WHARE WAANANGA O TAMAKI MAKAURAU
New Timberlands West Coast contracts are aimed at forcing the next Government into logging native forests, Green Party
Co-Leader Rod Donald said today.
Claims by Max Bradford in this week's Woman's Weekly that student loans are not restricting people from obtaining bank
loans, buying houses or starting families are not surprising given his general inability to understand the tertiary
education sector, said Co-President ...
Janes Defence Weekly is reporting the around 8,000 strong UN force (INTERFET) being deployed to East Timor can expect to
be there for two years. What combat opposition are they likely to encounter? John Howard reports.
ACT is the party that most closely represents the values the Chinese have made famous. The importance of family. The
virtue of hard work. The wisdom of thrift. The belief in personal responsibility.