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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</&>
  <&>0:45</&>
  

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      good evening

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      confusion is turning to defiance and anger in the soviet union
      as the kremlin coup enters its second day

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      the focus for resistance is the russian parliament building in
      moscow where the stage <&>1:00</&> is set for a dangerous
      confrontation

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      russian leader boris yeltsin is at the centre of the challenge
      to the kremlin

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      thousands are gathering at the parliament

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      and at least fourteen soviet tanks switched sides to defend the
      building

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      elaborate fortifications are now in place

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      tanks are advancing on leningrad

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      and soviet troops are on the move in the baltic republics

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      one man was shot dead in latvia

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      the first death reported since the kremlin takeover

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      an iron grip has been reimposed on the media

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      there's complete state control of television radio

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      and newspapers and super power relations are in chaos

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      president bush is refusing to recognise the new leadership and
      is calling for mikhail gorbachev to be returned to power <,>

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      tonight we report on all these and other developments in the
      soviet crisis

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      we begin in moscow where red army tanks provide a constant and
      sinister reminder of the nation's internal conflict

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      mark boyd reports <&>1:54</&> <&>section not transcribed</&>
      <&>4:43</&>

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      tanks are also on the move outside moscow

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      a column of a hundred and eighty k g b and red army tanks is now
      advancing on the city of leningrad

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      and troops are in action in the break away republics

  <WSC#MSN187:0110:JB>
      simon mercep reports <&>4:57</&> <&>section not transcribed</&>
      <&>6:22</&>

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      and acting president <?>gennady yennaiev</?> today guaranteed
      citizens they would be safe

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      but he may not be believed

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      it's a bad joke now that gorbachev once called <?>ynaiev</?>
      someone he could trust

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      but while <?>ynaiev</?> is the figure head of the ruling
      committee it's thought others are calling the shots <&>6:39</&>
      <&>section not transcribed</&> <&>7:29</&>

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      the kremlin coup has thrown super power relations into disarray

  <WSC#MSN187:0140:JB>
      president bush cut short his holiday returning to washington to
      steer a path through a potential diplomatic and military
      minefield

  <WSC#MSN187:0145:JB>
      cathy campbell reports <&>7:43</&> <&>section not transcribed</&>
      <&>9:37</&>

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      nowhere has the shock been more strongly felt than in europe
      which has seen so much change during the gorbachev era

  <WSC#MSN187:0155:JB>
      our european correspondent liam jeory reports <&>9:47</&> <&>section
      not transcribed</&> <&>11:32</&>

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      after the break new zealand's reaction to the soviet crisis

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      also australia's budget dishes out the economic medicine

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      and outrage that a boy accused of murder is attending an
      auckland school <&>11:44</&> <&>advertisements</&> <&>15:45</&>

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      the prime minister has advised new zealanders to defer
      nonessential travel to the soviet union

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      earlier the soviet ambassador <?>yuri sokalov</?> was called to
      the beehive by external relations minister don mckinnon to hear
      <&>16:00</&> officially the government's concern over the
      kremlin coup

  <WSC#MSN187:0185:JB>
      here's political correspondent richard harman <&>16:05</&> <&>section
      not transcribed</&> <&>17:39</&>

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      and that's all soviet citizens here in new zealand can do

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      contact with relatives is limited because of overloaded phone
      circuits

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      and many are fearful of what will happen next in their homeland

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      here's ian sinclair <&>17:51</&> <&>section not transcribed</&>
      <&>19:19</&>

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      the shock waves from moscow spread quickly through the world's
      financial markets driving prices down

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      a selling spree on wall street saw the dow jones tumble seventy
      points or two and a half percent

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      and <.>prouc</.> prices were down three percent in london

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      but stock suffered most in germany which has close economic ties
      to the soviet union

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      prices there fell almost ten percent

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      in tokyo the market opened firmer after yesterday's six percent
      slump but by midday prices were weaker again in heavy trading

  <WSC#MSN187:0240:JB>
      the new zealand sharemarket opened sharply lower before
      recovering in afternoon <&>20:00</&> trading

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      but the s e forty index was still forty eight points down

  <WSC#MSN187:0250:JB>
      however the kiwi dollar rose against both the greenback and the
      australian

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      there's outrage in new zealand today over revelations a fifteen
      year old boy accused of murder is attending school without the
      principal knowing his background

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      the boy is awaiting trial for the murder of a paeroa farmer

  <WSC#MSN187:0265:RL>
      pauline hudson reports <&>20:20</&> <&>section not transcribed</&>
      <&>21:47</&>

  <WSC#MSN187:0270:JB>
      an overnight fire that razed a wellington school block is
      suspected arson <&>21:51</&> <&>section not transcribed</&>
      <&>21:55</&>

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      the blaze at porirua college caused a million <&>22:00</&>
      dollars worth of damage to science labs computer rooms and a
      weights gym

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      it's closed the school temporarily and teachers say it'll be at
      least next term before classes are back to normal

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      new zealanders will be able to see a lot more of the navy over
      the next month

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      most of the fleet left devonport today for a special patrol to
      mark the navy's fiftieth anniversary

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      ships will visit sixteen ports of call from whangarei to stewart
      island <,>

  <WSC#MSN187:0300:JB>
      a compulsory five percent employer levy

  <WSC#MSN187:0305:JB>
      that's the new australian answer to funding superannuation

  <WSC#MSN187:0310:JB>
      it's one of the main features of the federal budget being
      delivered in canberra now

  <WSC#MSN187:0315:JB>
      here's our australian correspondent craig mcmurtrie <&>22:39</&>
      <&>section not transcribed</&> <&>23:47</&>

  <WSC#MSN187:0320:JB>
      greg has sport next <&>23:48</&> <&>section not transcribed
      advertisements</&> <&>30:17</&>

  <WSC#MSN187:0325:RL>
      thanks greg

  <WSC#MSN187:0330:JB>
      now how's the weather shaping up penn <&>30:20</&> <&>weather
      not transcribed</&> <&>31:13</&> <&>end of sample</&>
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