1Opposition leader Jim Bolger has pledged to come to grips with the latest "crime epidemic".

2Public servants, affected by the State Service restructuring, have today been given seven months to find jobs in the new State Corporations, or face compulsory redundancy.

3Headline News 1. Prime Minister David Lange has confirmed that the Higher Salaries Commission (HSC) will be stopped from increasing salaries by more than 10% 2. The Tongan, Samoan and Fijian Governments are asking for an explanation from the New Zealand Government about last week's abrupt end to the visa-free scheme 3. AIDS sufferers wishing to migrate to New Zealand may be denied entry

4A series of explosions were heard across Muslim West Beirut, despite the presence of thousands of Syrian soldiers. However, by and large, the Syrians appear to have stemmed last week's fierce street fighting.

5Heavy security surrounded the trial of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, the leader of the Lebanese terrorist group responsible for at least two murders in France.

6Jewish dissident Iosif Begun (Josef Begun) has received a hero's welcome from fellow Jews after being released from prison after three years.

7Last night there were confrontational scenes in the Papatoetoe electorate where a new National Party candidate was being selected. The Moral Majority leader claims the National Party pressured candidates sympathetic to them, to renounce their candidacy. What influence is the Moral Majority having on the National Party? Interview with the leader of the Coalition for Concerned Citizens, Barry Reed, followed by analysis from political reporter Richard Harman.

8Minister of Finance Roger Douglas ventured into the Southland farming community of Lumsden last night, where he was confronted by a hall full of farmers, angry at his Rogernomics economic policies.

9Prime Minister David Lange has confirmed that the Higher Salaries Commission (HSC) will be stopped from increasing salaries by more than 10% by legislation introduced to Parliament this afternoon. University teaching staff argue they will be the group most affected. Live interview with thw secretary of the University Teachers Association, Rob Crozier.

10Worldwatch Jewish dissident Iosif Begun (Josef Begun) has received a hero's welcome from fellow Jews after being released from prison after three years. This marks further progress in the Mikhail Gorbachev's new policy of Glasnost (openness), however there is still a long way to go. Many pardoned dissidents have been forced to sign statements promising to cease their activities.

11Worldwatch Heavy security surrounded the trial of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, the leader of the Lebanese terrorist group responsible for at least two murders in France.

12Worldwatch In an effort to stop terrorism before it starts, political suspects in the United States are being jailed and threatened with deportation. The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) are moving against anyone of Arab descent who have any association with The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a secular Palestinian Marxist–Leninist and revolutionary socialist organization founded in 1967 by George Habash.

13Worldwatch Although the United States' recent arms deal with Iran has occupied media attention over recent weeks, it would seem that the United States is not the only nation quietly selling arms to Iran. Virtually every Western European country is involved in arms deals with Iran, despite the fact that most of these Government have publicly adopted a policy of not selling arms to Iran.

14Worldwatch A look at the complicated legal battles being fought for compensation in the wake of the fire at the Bradford City Football Ground in May 1985, which killed 56 people.

15Worldwatch The increasing publicity given to the issue of child abuse recently is helping some children, however, for others, it is having an adverse and ironic spinoff. Many children suffering from normal household mishaps are being taken from their parents, because authorities suspect they are being abused. The newest weapon in child custody disputes is to knowingly and deliberately falsely accuse the father of sexually abusing his own children.

16Worldwatch Researchers studying criminal behaviour in the United States are noticing a trend towards increasingly younger lawbreakers, committing ever more serious crimes.