On Friday June 7th a forum was ‘Everything that can be done to stop held in the student quad on the the junta in their actions, or to stop arrest and detention of Khoo Ee Li support for them in any way, is a Liam,a former member of the Exec­ very important task. utive of Canterbury University. Any steps taken by the Government Students were tod of the circum­ of this country, any steps taken by stances surrounding the arrest and the Trade Unions of this country, any detention of Khoo,however the steps taken by any organisation mean principal question discussed was the that our people will be able to sur­ continued surveillance of Malaysians vive. while they are studying in New At this moment this is what we are Zealand by their home government. asking, the right to live: that is all, and that is very much. Some three hundred students attend Mrs Aida Insunza, a professor of attended the meeting and the follow, Labour Law under the Allendo following resolution was passed un­ government spoke these words to animously : New Zealanders as a plea for them That this meeting condems the not to forget. blatent interference in the intern- 5 or 6 people had meanwhile ! al affairs of New Zealand by the gathered at the far end of the term­ Malaysian government,and inus. They discovered the plane had already landed. 1. Demands an end to the political Suddenly, the gates were unfast­ | surveillance of overseas students ened and a sleek cascade of 3 in New Zealand. Cadillacs zoomed out a side entrance. 2. Calls for the New Zealand gov­ Few saw them leave. There was, ernment to place the staff of the however, a moral victory. Malaysian High Commission on a The general it seemed was being restricted radius of travel. insulated on arrival. 3. Calls for the New Zealand gov­ On Thursday night, it was ann­ ernment to offer political asylum ounced that General Sergic Marquez to those overseas students who would arrive at Auckland on Sat­ will suffer for their political urday as the ambassador to the beliefs on their return to their Chilean militery junta. home country. There was only a day to act. A.U.S.A. President Ed Haysom There was a day to organise at called for N.Z.U.S.A. to question least some opposition to his coming. government on the role that is being Saturday dawned. By 10.30 at played in the surveillance of that Wong Siong Seng was arrested The News informed people over Auckland International Airport, Malaysian students by the New in mid May, and it is believed that the next 2 days that General Sergio 50 people had gathered with plac­ Zealand Security Intelligence Service his arrest is connected with that of Marquez was staying incommunicado. ards. Service. He siad that the absurdity Khoo Ee Liam. Wong was a student He would not meet the press until Surveillance was stringent. Police of the charges made against Khoo at Victoria until 1971.N.Z.U.S.A. after he presented his credentials nor were in evidence and all the time a was secondary in importance to the has asked the New Zealand Ministry were his whereabouts disclosed. black Cadillac constantly drove up general question of where the of Foreign Affairs to follow up the General Marquez it seems was and down the road outside the term­ Malaysian government got the infor­ question of Wong’s arrest.lt is un­ going to have a difficult stay but.few inus. mation that enabled them to charge likely that the Malaysian govern­ would shed tears over that. Meanwhile we waited. Khoo with acts committed in New ment will prove any more co-oper­ Our thoughts were rather with The N.Z.B.C. were there and the Zealand. ative in discussing this case than those Chilean patriots who fight on Press. However, no press conference they were with Khoo. However it is against the fascists. Their cry can be would be held. Students were tod of the recent clear that students returning home heard all over the world. Outside the terminus some speak­ arrest of another former New after studying in New Zealand are ers organised the group through the Zealand student.lt now is known not safe from persecution. VENCE REMOS - WE SHALL WIN! megaphone. stated ‘I personally abhor deeply Santiago. the military regime which has s e i z e d power by gunpoint and detest As the bombs fell on Moneda LESSON FOR its military dictatorship and its Palace last September, President r epr es en tati ves ’. Allende spoke for the last time. T am certain’, he said, ‘that my Mr O’Brien stated that he intended sacrifice will not be in vain. I am to present the petition circulated at certain it will be a lesson which will Labour Party Conference. punish treachery, cowardice and ‘It adequately summarizes’, he says, treason’. ‘the feelings of revulsion New Labour‘s foreign policy in this Where stands the government on ‘very distressed at the events in Chile Zealanders feel towards what has last year when thousands of people instance as in others has been des­ Chile? After the coup last year the happened in Chile’. cribed by the Minister of Justice, Prime Minister, Mr Kirk, spoke of were murdered. Like its fellow parties in Sweden He said he looked forward to the Dr Finlay, as ‘a blend of principle the junta as a government that ‘shot and Britain, the Labour Party in and pragmatism’. time when the people of Chile would New Zealand nas shown where it its way into power’. Let us hope that the principle restore a democratic form of govern­ stands on this issue. The Government consequently ultimately wins through. stated it was withholding recog­ ment. Criticism could however be nition. New Zealand however was In supporting the protest, the offered on the grounds that it will in an ananolous position for the M.P. for Island Bay, Gerald O’Brien, not withdraw its ambassador from FREER OUT OF TOUCH previc/us National government had established an embassy in Santiago and 8 weeks later the government While attending a meeting was to extend both recognition and at which the Minister of Trade diplomatic relations with the new and Industry was trying to regime. explain his big FOB off about Support is The prime minister was careful the Maximum Retail Price Zealand Uni\ to point out that this could in no issue, he said it was to satisfy iation’s camj way be construed as support for the the expositers who would IrKhoo Ee junta. not be able to justify the who was j At the Labour Party Conference price on the packets. Would New Zealanc the issue of Chile became a contra- a copy of the so-called MRP ly Malaysian versial one. Many delegates felt that code not be available to a wary 27. the government could do more. conscientious importer. Come On June 6 They supported a remit which on Mr Freer, the New Zealand mg to an. N.5 asked for the removal of the New orum at Vic Zealand ambassador from Santiago. public is who you are supposed to serve. Secondly to suggest cuss the arre The move was defeated. been chargee However at the same conference that sugar can be obtained following “c over 230 delegates, including 30 from Cuba at a cheap rate is sit in New \ members of the parliamentary party, crap because waterside workers Firstly Kl signed a petition calling for an end have not unloaded sugar for active partic to the holding and maltreatment of seventeen years. It is sucked ies of the pr political prisoners in Chile and out by machinery by the sugar Communist demanding a return to democratic company employers. Thirdly government. the requiremnet of 10,000 tons China Frien< At the airport demonstration on of scrap steel for the mill “close assoc the weekend, there was further bers of the I evidence of hostility to the junta by coming over in container because the waterside workers will not Party”, while government members. Canterbury unload in because it would At the protest the M.P. for Eden Secondly Mike Moore said that ‘Chile is a be carried on a ship which is Khoo was al lesson for New Zealand democracy, not on an regular run between collaboratio it strengthened the multi-nationals Australia and New Zealand munist elerr and their involvement in politics. is another load of twaddle. tempted to ‘There’s a lot more’, he continued, There are several Union Co ional Libera ‘New Zealand can do’. green billed monsters tied up Thirdly ti He said he did not believe that at the viaduct ready to go authorities < diplomatic recognition should be over and get the scrap steel was a matrie withheld but that he felt that this bourne, Aus raised the question as to why the Lastly, if the Minister just comm­ unicated with the people who great variety Provisional Revolutionary Govern­ ature and pi put him into power a fraction ment of Vietnam should not also be occasions in recognized. more he would get a true pic­ sions with r Although the government had an ture. Trade Unions do play Peking Aus1 ambassador here, it did not mean, he their part towards the benefit Society in c said, that he would have any official of the country but we do not knowledge contact with him. owp the press who say the munist idee I expect him to have a rather words people like to hear! Further ( difficult time in New Zealand, he A little co-operatoin with grass allege that 1 said.