5 November NZ TONIGHT 2010 WORLD TECH MUSIC 1 Dope not Church needs Google’s world The Jazz right medicine purity – Pope domination Player page 2 page 8 page 19 page 14 TGIFEDITION.TV Auckland Hamilton Wellington Christchurch Queenstown Dunedin Sat: 18°/9° Sun: 19°/10° Sat: 18°/3° Sun: 20°/7° Sat: 12°/8° Sun: 14°/8° Sat: 13°/4° Sun: 16°/6° Sat: 18°/2° Sun: 22°/8° Sat: 14°/8° Sun: 14°/9° THERE’S ONE EASY WAY TO GET SUBSCRIBE TODAY, IT’S FREE! THIS DIGITAL NEWSPAPER Via FACEBOOK or TWITTER EDITION ISSN 1172-4153 | Volume 3 | Issue 70 | | 5 November 2010 Heidi Paakkonen mystery deepens on the By Ian Wishart tary personnel on a training exercise in the Karanga today. “We ended up parking the Air Force truck Valley near Coromandel. In an exclusive interview, he’s beside her Subaru.” The whereabouts of missing Swedish tourist Heidi told TGIF Edition how he and two others, including The significance of the new sighting is that Heidi INSIDE Paakkonen became murkier this week as new sight- an Air Force officer, saw Heidi Paakkonen and the was still alive in the Coromandel bush, and not with ings of her emerged outside the area police claimed Subaru car she and Urban had been travelling in, in a David Wayne Tamihere, at a time when police claim she was last seen in. campsite in the Karanga Valley on the same day that she was already either a captive, or dead. Investigate magazine broke open the 21 year old a star police witness in the Tamihere trials claimed It raises questions about whether the police case cold case this month with a cover story revealing he’d seen her miles away with Tamihere. against Tamihere was an Arthur Thomas-style fit up Heidi had been seen by people who knew her person- Clearly, both versions can’t be accurate, but the new – the man heading the Swedish tourists investiga- ally, on Kawau Island in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf, witness says Police under the leadership of Detective tion had also provided false evidence against Arthur weeks after police claim she had already been killed. Inspector John Hughes chose to ignore the three Thomas in the Crewe murder case. The information came in a confidential briefing military witnesses, and instead go with the rival ver- Police National Headquarters has so far failed to paper sent to former police commissioner John sion from a police search and rescue volunteer. make any contact with Investigate magazine over Jamieson and obtained by Investigate. In it, a cou- “She was absolutely striking, and all of us in the the positive sighting of Heidi on Kawau Island, first ple who knew Paakkonen and her fiancé Urban truck noticed her,” the witness told TGIF Edition publicised two weeks ago. Hoglin personally say they were surprised to see her on Kawau Island in late May 1989 in the company of another man, with no sign of Hoglin. They told Clinton Chronicles police Heidi looked “clearly distressed” but when End of military estrangement they tried to help her the man snarled at them, Page 6 “don’t touch her!”, and led Heidi off into the bush. Police denied it could have been Heidi Paakko- MT DOOM nen, because they already had the main suspect, David Tamihere, behind bars at the time of the Volcano death toll climbs sharply sighting. However, it was the only sighting of Heidi by people who actually knew her personally, and should have been taken more seriously by police. Instead, for 21 years the trail went cold, and no body has ever been found. However, in the wake of publicity about the mag- azine article this month, and Tamihere’s release on parole this week, new witnesses have come forward to TGIF Edition. One is adamant she saw Heidi Paakkonen on Waiheke Island in the Hauraki Gulf By Sukino Harisumarto and Indonesian officials feared the death toll would rise. on April 11, several days after she’d last been seen In the nearby city of Yogyakarta, Sardjito General Canterbury Win alive in Coromandel, according to police files. JAKARTA (DPA) – At least 54 people were killed Hospital reported at least 54 bodies and 66 injured Third straight time But there’s a second new witness whose testimony is and more than 66 seriously injured Friday by the latest people had been brought from the disaster zone. Page 11 even more surprising. The man, now part of Auckland powerful eruptions of Mount Merapi on Java island, Continue reading Coastguard, was in 1989 part of a deployment of mili- Clinton wowed by ChCh recovery By Kate Chapman of NZPA seen just a little bit with my own eyes about how they are very impressed with how this community Christchurch has rebounded,” she said. responded,” she said. CHRISTCHURCH, NOV 5 – United States Secretary Police, firefighters and other emergency services New Zealanders were well known for helping out of State Hillary Clinton has congratulated Cantab- had all done a good job and the minister in charge of others in the wake of disasters and were admired by rians on the way they have handed themselves since earthquake recovery, Gerry Brownlee, had provided Americans for showing resilience and“irrepressible the earthquake. the leadership, she said. good cheer”. She told more than 300 people who attended a pub- Mrs Clinton particularly mentioned the Canter- “New Zealand is highly admired by Americans lic meeting in Christchurch Town Hall today it was bury University students who set up a Facebook who are intrigued by what you have built here, who hard for her, as an outsider, to image that a quake of page to recruit volunteers to help clean up. are trying to understand rugby and the great attrac- magnitude 7.1 had hit the city just two months ago. “For everyone here in Christchurch, the United tion that holds, and who are very committed to “I am delighted to have heard and to have States sends its best wishes and lets you know learning more about New Zealand,” she said. Before and after... trust Olympus The E-620 from Olympus For more information contact H.E. Perry Ltd.phone: 0800 10 33 88 | email: [email protected] | http://www.heperry.co.nz NEW ZEALAND 2 5 November 2010 off Clinton: US will continue to lead world By Kate Chapman The US supported other countries that were In her brief opening speech Mrs Clinton said New becoming increasingly powerful. Zealand and the United States did not agree on BEAT CHRISTCHURCH, NOV 5 – United States Secretary “We support China’s rise, we support India’s rise, everything and had been divided by nuclear issues of State Hillary Clinton wrapped up the public part we support Brazil’s rise, we want to see South Africa, in the past. of her visit to New Zealand this afternoon, telling Nigeria, Turkey and others that are important But they now agreed on the importance of the Christchurch people her country would be the only regional players take a warm, responsible, produc- non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. global superpower for the foreseeable future. tive position in the world,” she said. Mrs Clinton was given a standing ovation at the More than 300 people, including academics, poli- That did not mean the US agreed with every- end of the meeting and went on to her last engage- ticians, business leaders and members of the public, thing those countries did. But it was important to ment, a reception hosted by the American Chamber attended her meeting in Christchurch Town Hall work with new, emerging power centres to promote of Commerce (Amcham). where she told them the US sent its best wishes responsibility. Amcham executive director Mike Hearn said her and wanted them to know it was impressed with There was a growing number of young people, presence reflected the importance the Obama Admin- the way the city had coped with the September 4 especially in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America istration placed on trade ties with New Zealand. earthquake. and Asia, who were not getting the right opportuni- Mrs Clinton said the US was focused on increas- Mrs Clinton took six questions and one came ties and would turn to extremist groups or criminal ing exports and wanted to see results from the from former finance minister Ruth Richardson, who networks instead. That would have consequences Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade negotiations, asked about the international geo-political shifts that were not confined to one country, she said. which include New Zealand. that would affect the next generation. Mrs Clinton said the US believed in the United Mrs Clinton arrived in Wellington yesterday and “That’s a profound question and one that I wish Nations.“If it did not exist, we would have to invent held talks with Prime Minister John Key and For- I was smart enough to answer completely and con- it.” eign Minister Murray McCully at Parliament and LIBRARY BOOKS RETURNED AFTER 60 YEARS vincingly,” Mrs Clinton said. She said it needed to be more cost-effective and signed the Wellington Declaration which sets out a BOSTON, NOV. 4 (UPI) – The Boston Public Library said There were many overlapping changes and a streamlined. strategic partnership that draws the two countries it received a pair of books in the mail that were due constant balancing act, but the major movement “There is a minority within our country that is closer than they have ever been since the Anzus rift Sept. 21, 1950. would be towards a multi-polar world as opposed very suspicious of the United Nations, sometimes more than 20 years ago.