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  <&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One</&>
  <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies</&>
  <&>Victoria University of Wellington</&>

  <&>side one</&>
  <&>21:44</&>
  

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      radio new zealand news read by dinah vincent

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      the prime minister has defended his sacking of the chairman of
      the government caucus employment committee michael laws

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      jim bolger has accused the news media of making too much of the
      issue

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      he says mister laws did not have a good working relationship
      with employment minister maurice mcteague and he had to go

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      mister bolger says the issue came to a head when mister laws
      abandoned the government policy of seeking to halve the level of
      unemployment

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      he says mister laws did that without consulting the minister

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      something he had an obligation to do

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      mister bolger says mister laws' suggestion that he was sacked
      for telling the truth is incorrect <,>

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      catholic social service agencies throughout new zealand say the
      hard economic climate is causing a big change in the emphasis of
      their work

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      it says lack of funds and increasing stress on the people it
      serves have meant a move away from preventive work to dealing
      almost continuously with crisis

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      a palmerston north based speaker for the agencies margaret may
      says the general stress on people has grown tremendously in the
      past year

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      she says some families just lurch from crisis to crisis with no
      respite and social workers trying to help them have little time
      to carry out planned preventive work to stop the development of
      problems <,> <&>23:00</&>

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      electricorp is being accused of putting up its prices when its
      costs are coming down

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      the electricity supply association says electricorp's planned
      price rise of about three per cent from october can't be
      justified by increased costs

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      a briefing paper put out by the association says electricorp's
      prices are almost inflation proof because water in <.>hydro</.>
      electric power stations is free and the corporation's wage costs
      are falling

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      it says the corporation boasted that it negotiated a deal with
      the government for gas for its thermal power stations which was
      better than prices paid in the past

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      and it says electricorp's financing costs will be cheaper due to
      falling interest rates

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      the association concludes that the only basis for electricorp's
      price rise is a calculation of what consumers would be able to
      bear <,>

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      about five hundred people have been killed or wounded in
      fighting between iraqi troops and kurdish residents of the north
      eastern iraq cities of <?>sulamanayah</?> and arbil

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      the kurds say <&>24:00</&> iraqi troops started the fighting by
      firing on demonstrators on the twenty third anniversary of the
      coup which brought saddam hussein's <?>bath</?> party to power
      <&>24:07</&> <&>ineligible speakers</&> <&>24:34</&>

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      president <?>mubaraq</?> of egypt has proposed that the arab
      states suspend their economic boycott of israel if the israeli
      government stops building settlements in the occupied
      territories

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      his call came after talks in alexandria with the american
      secretary of state james baker who's on another middle east
      peace mission

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      the two were also expected to discuss syria's agreement to
      american plans for a peace conference based on the exchange of
      israeli occupied land for arab <&>25:00</&> recognition of
      israel <,>

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      president bush has announced that the united states is to help
      strengthen and modernise greece's armed forces

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      he says this will include the redeployment of american tanks and
      artillery based there and the sale of warplanes

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      mister bush was speaking at a naval base on the greek island of
      crete which was used during the gulf war

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      he thanked the greeks for their support during the conflict with
      iraq and stressed the importance of greece on nato's southern
      flank <,>

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      the pharmaceutical society is launching a campaign to warn
      people about the dangers of tranquillisers

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      it wants pharmacists around the country to warn people that
      tranquillisers such as valium can be addictive

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      society president ron rosenberg says they're a helpful way of
      coping with anxiety and sleeplessness but may make the user
      dependent if taken for more than a few weeks at a time

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      the pharmaceutical society and health department have produced
      an information leaflet for pharmacists to use when telling
      customers about the potential <&>26:00</&> danger of
      tranquillisers <,>

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      the talented young christchurch violinist sarah mclelland has
      been appointed leader of the world youth orchestra

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      the twenty one year old who's currently in sweden will lead the
      orchestra on its european tour which begins in stockholm on
      august the first

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      sarah got a three thousand dollar travel grant from new zealand
      post earlier this year to join the world youth orchestra for the
      tour

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      last year she led the national youth orchestra in a series of
      concerts in christchurch marking new zealand's one hundred and
      fiftieth birthday <,>

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      the libyan leader colonel gadafi has announced his candidacy for
      president of italy

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      gadafi wants to take advantage of an obscure law dating from
      italy's colonisation of libya

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      the law accords libyans the same rights as italians

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      gadafi told italian television that the goal of his candidacy is
      to give power back to the italian people

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      then he'll nip back to libya <&>25:52</&>
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