1Processed Food In the age of convenience foods, are people careful about what they put into their bodies? The dazzling array of attractively packaged goods are backed up by massive advertising campaigns telling New Zealanders what is good for them. But how healthy is it actually? Most packaged or bottled food contain additives, preservatives, colouring or food substitute. Discussion and viewer talkback with a visiting American consumer advocate, who says we should all treat processed foods with caution, especially in New Zealand, where there is such an abundant supply of high quality fresh food.

2Soviet leader MIkhail Gorbachev has appeared on State television to tell the Soviet people and the world the latest about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and that Moscow is extending its nuclear test freeze until August 8. He also renewed a call to American President Ronald Reagan for an immediate meeting to discuss a test ban.

3United States Secretary of State George Shultz has cautioned Israel and Syria not to begin a war at a time of high tension between the two countries.

4A bus carrying 175 schoolchildren has overturned in the South African homeland of Transkei, killing 31 and injuring the others.

5South African security forces in the tribal homeland of KwaNdebele have fired on thousands of Black villagers protesting against the Government's plans to grant nominal independence to the region.

6A brief listing of the New Zealand news headlines.

7The American stock market has been rocked this week by revelations about what is believed to be the United States' biggest case of insider trading fraud.

8Processed Food In the age of convenience foods, are people careful about what they put into their bodies? The dazzling array of attractively packaged goods are backed up by massive advertising campaigns telling New Zealanders what is good for them. But how healthy is it actually? Most packaged or bottled food contain additives, preservatives, colouring or food substitute. Discussion and viewer talkback with a visiting American consumer advocate, who says we should all treat processed foods with caution, especially in New Zealand, where there is such an abundant supply of high quality fresh food.

9A brief listing of the New Zealand and international news headlines.

10Processed Food In the age of convenience foods, are people careful about what they put into their bodies? The dazzling array of attractively packaged goods are backed up by massive advertising campaigns telling New Zealanders what is good for them. But how healthy is it actually? Most packaged or bottled food contain additives, preservatives, colouring or food substitute. Discussion and viewer talkback with a visiting American consumer advocate, who says we should all treat processed foods with caution, especially in New Zealand, where there is such an abundant supply of high quality fresh food.

11A brief listing of the New Zealand news headlines.

12Soviet leader MIkhail Gorbachev has appeared on State television to tell the Soviet people and the world the latest about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and that Moscow is extending its nuclear test freeze until August 8. He also renewed a call to American President Ronald Reagan for an immediate meeting to discuss a test ban.

13One of Britain's nuclear power stations has been temporarily shut down because of a fault in the fuel elements. Officials have also released details of an accident at another British nuclear plant last year.

14A Yugoslavian court has sentenced 86 year old Andrija Artuković (aka The Butcher of the Balkans) to die for war crimes he committed while serving as a top level Nazi collaborator.

15The United Nations (UN) has approved another year's funding of a programme aimed at preventing pirate attacks on Vietnamese Boat People.

16American scientist Paul McCready has reconstructed a pterodactyl as part of a project for a planned movie.