<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side two <&>6:28 radio new zealand news read by dinah vincent <,> the united nations secretary general mister perez de cuella is to recommend that the u n adopt sweeping new measures to limit iraq's arsenal <,> a u n correspondent says they'll be the most stringent controls in the organisation's history in addition to the existing arms embargo they would give the u n the right to fly surveillance aircraft over any part in iraq and photograph suspicious equipment u n officials would be able to enter iraq without permission and inspect any <&>7:00 sites they wanted to including import and export facilities <,> to control chemical weapons iraq would be obliged to tell the u n of all vaccine production and would be banned from carrying out experiments to eliminate any disease not native to iraq <,> the american space shuttle atlantis has finally blasted off after ten days of delays <&>7:21 <&>ineligible speakers <&>7:58 a dunedin education unionist says the time has come for civil disobedience maryanne baxter of the tertiary education association told a meeting in the city that people don't have to feel powerless in the wake of drastic social change she says the public must fight for decent health and education and not let the government get away with the changes it's making missus <.>bak baxter also says that schools will be forced to close in the wake of the budget she says the government won't close schools itself but will make life so tough for them through under funding that many will go to the wall <,> and a speaker for health unions in christchurch sue stewart has told a meeting that the community demands free and accessible health and education she says the failure of the finance and health ministers to provide this could result in their government's demise as well as civil disobedience in hospitals and the community <,> there's more support for the parliamentary press gallery's opposition to paying rent for the space they use in parliament's bowen house the government announced in the budget that it wants <&>9:00 news organisations to pay a total of a hundred thousand dollars a year for the space occupied by their reporters the head of canterbury university's journalism school jim tulley says the charge raises serious questions about the free flow of information in a democratic society he says the proposed rents could hardly be seen purely as a revenue raising move given the relatively small amount that would be gathered jim tulley says there are serious implications for the public at a time when both national and labour governments are prepared to spend large amounts of tax money on what is essentially propaganda <,> police in christchurch are looking into allegations of unprovoked attacks on patrons at a hotel in the suburb of aranui witnesses claim that bouncers at mckenzies hotel last weekend were looking for a fight it's claimed the bouncers pummelled and kicked three men leaving one of them unconscious in a pool of blood another witness says there was a similar incident the previous weekend the hotel's management say they're looking into the matter and won't <&>10:00 comment further on the causes of the complaints christchurch police say at least one complaint has been made to them <,> after braving storms and icebergs a replica viking ship has successfully crossed the atlantic to mark the thousandth anniversary of norsemen landing in north america the gaia a copy of a ninth century ship arrived at the canadian town of lancon medot to celebrate the anniversary of leif ericson's arrival in the new world five hundred years before christopher columbus the single masted longboat built of norwegian pine set sail with its crew of ten from norway in may and spent the last week fighting high waves and dodging icebergs off the coast of labrador lancon medot in newfoundland is the only authenticated norse settlement in north america and archaeologists speculate that it's the place reported by the vikings as vineland the good meanwhile it's four hundred and ninety nine years ago that columbus set out from spain on his voyage <&>11:00