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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 two</&>
  <&>6:28</&>
  

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      radio new zealand news read by dinah vincent <,>

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      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 <,>

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      a u n correspondent says they'll be the most stringent controls
      in the organisation's history

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      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

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      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 <,>

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      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 <,>

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      the american space shuttle atlantis has finally blasted off
      after ten days of delays <&>7:21</&> <&>ineligible speakers</&>
      <&>7:58</&>

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      a dunedin education unionist says the time has come for civil
      disobedience

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      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

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      she says the public must fight for decent health and education
      and not let the government get away with the changes it's making

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      missus <.>bak</.> baxter also says that schools will be forced
      to close in the wake of the budget

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      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 <,>

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      and a speaker for health unions in christchurch sue stewart has
      told a meeting that the community demands free and accessible
      health and education

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      she says the failure of the finance and health ministers to
      provide this could result in their government's demise

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      as well as civil disobedience in hospitals and the community <,>

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      there's more support for the parliamentary press gallery's
      opposition to paying rent for the space they use in parliament's
      bowen house

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      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

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      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

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      he says the proposed rents could hardly be seen purely as a
      revenue raising move given the relatively small amount that
      would be gathered

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      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 <,>

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      police in christchurch are looking into allegations of
      unprovoked attacks on patrons at a hotel in the suburb of aranui

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      witnesses claim that bouncers at mckenzies hotel last weekend
      were looking for a fight

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      it's claimed the bouncers pummelled and kicked three men leaving
      one of them unconscious in a pool of blood

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      another witness says there was a similar incident the previous
      weekend

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      the hotel's management say they're looking into the matter and
      won't <&>10:00</&> comment further on the causes of the
      complaints

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      christchurch police say at least one complaint has been made to
      them <,>

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      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

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      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

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      the single masted longboat built of norwegian pine set sail with
      its crew of ten from norway in may

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      and spent the last week fighting high waves and dodging icebergs
      off the coast of labrador

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      <?>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

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      meanwhile it's four hundred and ninety nine years ago that
      columbus set out from spain on his voyage <&>11:00</&>
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