“strength of character”, before AUSA is been looking for som eone to blame, I’ve “plunged into total chaos”. No I’ve heard asked m yself - could I for one have been this one before. In Napoleonic France. In a better chairman in that situation? And Nazi Germany. In Chile, in Greece. In in all honesty I have to andwer “No”. every country where the petite bourgeois Will Haysom’s critics now ask themselves D ear S ir, are frightened of the masses. Give us a the same question? Brother Haysom has come in strong man. Well Iknow the kind of str­ for a great deal of criticism for his hand­ ong man Wytenbrrok wants; and I for one DAVID COLBOURN It’s necessary for any group to fathom ling of the AGM & few weeks back; ana want none of it. We’ve had them before where it’s going and what its aims are. I feel it is tim ely that I - as an exec mem­ and believe me they can far more in- This is what’a happening in the National ber who showed mo ability at all at con­ aependent in their interpretations of the Party with the emergence of Pel-Link trolling the crowd, should speak in his th an which aims at debating the more conserv­ constitution than Brother Haysom ever was ative of the National Party’s policies. d e fe n c e . It’s also what’s happening to the youth Wendy Morriss, after an accurate des­ was. Witness last year’s “Stripper” SGM. Dear Editor, part of the Labour Party because ci cription of the engineers’ behaviour, Ed is not a strong man. He is a consensus We wish to make a complaint meeting being held at Hunua this weekend claims that Haysom should have ordered chairman, in the best tradition of New about the facilities offered by the Student — the meeting of Socialist International Zealand liberal democracy, so he must be them to leave. Perhaps he should have, Health. At 12.20 on Tuesday afternoon I Y o u th . constitutionally. But what a futile ges­ g o o d . limped up tne stairs to the Student The Socialist Internationale is a rather ture. The engineers would not have left Again we are told by a number of people vague organisation, consisting of the Health. My little toe had been broken the and who was to shift them ? A dozen people that Ed played to the masses, by Social democratic, as opposed to the day before and the strapping com e loose- exec members? Or should Haysom smiling and joking with the engineers. Social revolutionary parties of the world. I wished to have it restrapped as it was All of the parties call themselves Social­ nave risked a mass brawl? I suggest not. Well, ye Gods, what the hell was he sup­ giving me considerable discomfort. On ist, although there are wide differences in Anotner critic claims he should have posed to &o? Cry? I was very nearly doing how they interpret this term. closed the meeting. Well he could have. that to little effect. Or throw a wobbly? arriving, I was asked if I had been there Unlike New Zealand where the youth And the engineers could then have elec­ And be laughed at. Haysom’s human. before and was I a student - 1 answered organisation is welded to the parent party, ted a new chairman and having a quorum Like most of us ne wants to save face “No” to the former and “Yes” to the in many overseas parties the youth organ­ could have continued as before. So an­ and be popular. He had two choices : latter and whereupon was told to go isation is virtually separate, existing under other futile gesture. Play strict and increase the chaos, away ana come back at 2.30 which was the party umbrella in West Germany the Lyn W ytenbrook claims that Haysom Or jolly the masses and get on with the impossible as I had lectures at that time. Social Democrats Youth Organisation, the “cleared” all the early motions “by business. He chose the latter and I don’t Tusos, have long been a thorn in Willy This would have only taken a few minutes ] means of totally illegal and unconstitut­ blame him. Besides good New Zealand Brandt’s side, advocating nationalisation to do and they could have at least given ional procedures44 and a number of other politicians always court public approval. of industries. me access to some sticking plaster so I people have echoed this point. Again What better tradition to be following? If the meeting creates the climate for could re-strap it m yself!' the youth section to demand its autonomy there is som e truth in this. But as a part­ Its incredible how little people seem PULVERISED PINKIE within the party, then it will be worth­ icularly involved and frightened observor, to have leameu. Hasn’t the last decade while, for then maybe it will have an it seemed obvious to rhe that that the taught us one thing at least? That when increased relevance as a vehicle for social meeting was not in the least bit interest­ a sufficient majority refuses to accept c h a n g e. ______ed in the earlier m otions, that it wanted the rules nothing can be done without V.'**.* •/ them out of the way. The constitution recourse to fofce if the rules are to ue is a legal document to be interpreted maintained. Ireland, France‘68, U.S.A. and argued over by legal minds. In a 67-71, Germany and Japan ‘68, even to nasty situation Haysom used pis in­ a degree Vietnam, Mozambique, Angola, Dear Ed., terpretation to “clear” the early motions. Zimbabwe, South Africa. If the United I notice that 'layout and festering' He got away with it because the meeting States army couldn’t stop a few Vietcong for your last Craccum (No. 7) is cre­ desired it and because their was no other in 1960 is Haysom to stop a relatively dited to Mr Malcolm Walker. I dis­ legal mind with either the will, or the much larger number of dissenting engin­ tinctly remember writing and losing capability of gainsaying him. After days eers? The whole crisis of democracy is that piece for the issue before last in the magistrates court I would opine mirrored in miniature in that AGM, that that is comm on legal practice. So there’s even a thesis there for som eone. (No. 5), and I distinctly remember not no use griping. Know your constitution. Which isn’t to say that Haysom played laying out any Craccums since. W ytenbrook continues by saying that it immaculately. He made mistakes. And Odd. Haysom was “weak” and we needed a I can see them all - with hindsight. And Sinderely, chairman and need a president with more time and again, wnen in desperation I’ve MALCOLM WALKER.

CRACCUM is on the top floor of the Stu­ dent Union Building. Our phone number is 30-789 (Ext. 67 for editorial, or Ext. 66 for advertising). We welcom e help and visitors... com e up and see us sometime (except Thursdays). Craccum this week was the result of chance, more than design, but anyway, it was amicably edited by Brent Lewis, terribly laid out by Chris Brookes and Gordon Clifton, awfully photographed by Garth Kennedy, and horribly reported by Mike Rann and Bill Ralston. Among the list of those who contributed or otherwise to our pride of place must go Lyall Duffus. Others who were nice to us and to whom credit must be given are notably our veritable advertising manager and publications officer Graeme D E^iste, but also George Packard, Murray Cammick, Malcom Walker, Roger Debreceny, Linda Tizard, Mary Nacey„Jeremy Templer, Bob Lack and his team, John W oodroffe, Thelma Gribblehurst, Paul Halloran, and Mick and Ian Sinclair. Lest we forget, Wendy Morris typed and added her comments.

Items may be freely reprinted from Craccum except where otherwise stated, provided that suitable acknowledgement is made. Craccum is published by the Craccum Administration Board for the Auckland University Students' Association (Inc.), typeset by City Typesetters of 501 Parnell Road, Auckland, and printed ©1966 R.COB8 «Rights RrsenvEo RO dBB by Wanganui Newspapers Ltd., 20 Drews Ave., Wanganui. In October last year, a third-form pupil at Onehunga High School, Philip Edwards was suspended from the school because of the length of his hair. It was another event in the series of "purges" carried out by the school on pupils whose nair was deemed to be against school policy. Earlier in the year nearly '100 pupils including Philip were ordered to have their locks cut or be sent home. On that occassion ne concurr­ ed. In October he was once again picked out and ordered home. This THE time he refused to comply and his father supported him.

Piiilip Edward^ hair length at tnat time would be considerably shorter HMR than the average for pupils from most other schools in Auckalnd. In fact it would have been acCeptaole in Auck land’s two bastions of conformity- Kings Coliege and Auckland Grammer The law under which Phillip was TRIM suspenaed is contained in Schedule 130 of the Education Act 1964 The Committee replied that they which gives the iieadmaster power had liberalised their hair cut regul­ to suspena pupils who “ from gross * ations from short oack and sides to misconduct or incorrigible ciisooed- the present regulations which do ience may oe considered INJ CU R­ not allow hair over eyebrows, bott­ IOUS OR DANGEROUS EXAMPLE om of the ears or the collar. TO O T H E R PUPi L S ’’ and whose In Phillip’s case the breach.if continued attendance is likely to there was one was definitely min­ cause a detrimental eifeci upon him­ imal, The Board in their wisdom self or other pupils. confirmed the Principal’s oecision. Phillip’s school report for the Mr Edwards on benalf of his son period contains the remarks signed, then filed an application in tne by the Principal - Conway josepn Supreme Court before the Chief McCarthy that he had mace an Justice, Sir Richard Wild, wrio just “ excellent start at the sciiooi and happened to be in Auckland, on was a polite and attentive pupil” . the grounds that Phillip Edwards Suddenly oecause his locks nau hair style did not amount to gross crept over his ears he was guilty misconduct or incorrigible disobed­ of gross misconduct and incorrig­ ience. The honourable judge dis­ Principals, School Boards and the values and in most cases uphold ible disobedience. agreed saying there were ample Courts is a distressing interference descisions of the principals. Phiilip’s father asked for a no got - grounds to the contrary. The on any efforts to ailow individual­ Tnere is virtually no hope for any an interview with Principal case went to the Court of Appeal, ism in the Education System. persons of pupil age to get onto McCarthy. He submitted to him which dismissed the application. If we are to avoid) the “ plastic the Boards. THe result is that that the cutting of his son’s hair Phillip Edwards, now can not mould” type of education which matters of Principle are quashed was a moral matter anc. was an in­ return to Onehunga High because the Education Development Con­ oy a zealous desire to uphold fringement on the personal ri^nts of his stand on a matter of principle. ferences throughout the country petty rules. The system rests on of tue individual. He now attends the Auckland Alt­ have condemned, the Act and the having reasonable people govern­ McCarthy cio not agree. ernative School where Education thinking of the people that enforce ing the rules. What happens when Tnret days later Mr Eowaras takes priority over rules. it must ue changed. unreasonable ones do so? and his solicitor, Donaid Dugdale Tne case Edwards v Onehunga The sincerity of the School Accordingly a 14 year old attended a meeting of the Sch­ High School Board is one of a num­ Boards is not questioned but the school boy is denied a minor ool Boares Suspension Sub- ber in recent years dealing with the type of people who sit on them cer­ expression of his individual Committee. They suggested to the conflict of petty school rules and tainly is. The Boards consist norm­ character. ComnLtee that hair iengtn should pupils’ stands on conscience. The ae decided oy the pupil , provided ally of local parents whose attitudes Education Act and its subsequent ROB GREENFIELD it was neat clean and tidy. interpretation and enforcement oy seem to oe to uphold Estaolishment

Have a good look and ask your­ SMALL BOYS ON CAM PUS, and They are trying to get an early self; do you want these people you find the nervous, insecure, de­ start for T975 which is probably to running the country? On anyone's featist attitudes of those who are their advantage, as they have a -accustomes to being in power and cumbersome machinery and the nervously undecided as to what paucity of eligible and clear think­ they should next do when they are ing candidates is causing them se­ out of power. vere embarrassment.

Muldoon last week was no ex­ ■ Have a look at their present ception and where his flippancy front bench: heart conditions, and smart comments did not gō dodderiness, and the glazed look over, he showed his customary about the eyes which is com­ display of political evasiveness monly associated with alcohol, which is characteristic of his party and then you realize what the when reminded of areas that are poor young hopefuls are up an embarrassment to them. against. Look immediately behind them and you will see the future Take, for instance, the issue of leadership of their parliamentary housing. He was quoted facts HaUenrô party, which is a coMectioq o f not Come to the International Union of which he did not refute,, but at­ Socialist Youth Seminar at idyllic Hunua too bright farmers, property tempted to belittle. He cannot re­ Falls this weekend. speculators, and retired military fute them because they are true Enrolment forms available from Brent SCRATCH UNDERNEATH THE personnel. Lewis at Craccum, or phone 32-156, or SURFACE OF ANY NATIONAL and this was shown to everyone 32-157. PARTY SPEAKER, OR EVEN THEIR clearly in the meeting. In keeping with Craccum's "open-to-everyone" policy, it seems only right that Jesus Christ should get a look-in. After all, there must be a very large number of nominal Christians on campus, and more than a few active practising Christians. A Christian view of issues of the day has been something noticeably absent from Craccum in past years. It is hoped that tha following series of articles will rectify this situation. CHRIST ON CAMPUS. a catholic view of abortion and contraception

Abortion and contraception are progress both of individuals and of really two quite separate issues, the whole of human society, and their only point in common being which respects and promotes true their connection with pregnancy. human values." The killing of the human foetus is Birth Control in these countries is quite a different and more serious often quite a secondary issue. In the matter than the avoidance of con­ countries of South America, for ex­ ception. However since many peo­ ample, the main concern of a so­ ple seem to disregard this fact, cially aware Catholic priesthood and treating abortion as just another laity is for social reform. A limita­ form of birth control to be used tion in the size of the family of when contraception fails, I have oppressed people is of little use if chosen to discuss both questions the people remain oppressed. In together in this article, if only to these situations the Church is quite emphasize the difference there is likely to turn a blind eye to the use between them. of artifical contraceptives by indi­ Being a Christian, and in particu­ vidual Catholic parishioners, since lar a Catholic, does not automati­ this is quite a small matter in com­ cally imply violent opposition to all parison with the need to lift the forms of abortion and artificial con­ people out of poverty through a traception. There are many Christ­ change in the social structure of the ians and Catholics who hold quite country. unorthodox views on these matters, The Catholic Church is not or who are uncertain about them. against family planning, only against But a practising Catholic, and, one the wholesale use of birth control would hope, any committed Christ­ methods which involve direct posi­ ian, has faith in a system of beliefs tive action against the possibility of based on Christ's teachings which new life. Nowadays the Ovulation make it appear fairly obvious that Method of birth control does pro­ abortion is definitely wrong and that vide a realistic and effective alterna­ contraception is, at best, regrettable. tive to the use of contraceptive de­ ing abortion does not constitute an particular circumstances may lead vices or the pill. After all, apart ABORTION effort to impose Christian morality people, in order to safeguard their from objections to them based on Opposition to abortion stems di­ on the populace by force, but quite mutual love and the welfare of their Christian principle, the artificial rectly from the Christian concept of simply a desire to protect the inno­ family, to come to a decision of methods of contraception are hardly the sacredness of human life. As cent. conscience which is in conflict with ideal. Condoms and other devices, I Pope John said, "From its very in­ There are many reasons why the a literal interpretation of the think, distort and degrade the act of ception (human life) reveals the birth of a child in a particular situa­ encyclical's teaching. sexual union, and there are numer­ creative hand of God'■. The human tion may be undesirable, from the I think most people in the ous medical objections to hormonal foetus cannot be regarded as some . point of view of the parents or of Catholic Church have recognized pills. "lower" form of life which may be society in general. If the parents that in this time of population exp­ The love of a man and a woman sacrificed at the convenience of the wish to avoid pain and suffering in losion some form of birth control is for each other can only be truly parents. From the moment of con­ such a situation they must avoid necessary, and that official doctrine expressed in sexual intercourse if ception a new, wonderfully unique conceiving the child. Once con­ on this matter does not always pro­ each gives totally to the other, with individual is being formed; there is ceived the unborn child constitutes vide a realistic answer to the prob­ no holding back. And the act can no sudden transofrmation from a unique human person with a fun­ lem: The words of Pope John best only have its true meaning (in sub-human into human life, but damental right to life. express the feelings of the Church Christian terms, be true to the will rather a continuous process of de­ in opposition to the adoption of of God) if it is open to procreation. velopment of life which is inher­ CONTRACEPTION wholesale birth control methods in With the improved methods of ently human, and the interruption of The Catholic Church's position on developing countries — No solution charting the menstral cycle that are this process, for whatever reason, is contraception is not as clear-cut as is acceptable "which does violence now available it is possible to pre­ to be avoided at all costs. its stand on the simpler question of to man's essential dignity" and is serve the true meaning of the act of Of course the developing foetus abortion, nor, perhaps, as readily based only "on an utterly materialis­ sexual union, to provide for the ful­ may be a burden to the mother. All comprehended by people outside tic conception of man himself and lest sexual expression of mutual children are, to a greater or lesser the Church. The official teaching of his life. The only possible solu­ love, while permitting the avoidance extent, a burden to their parents. was given in the papal encyclical tion to this question is one which of undesirable pregnancies. The emotive term "parasite'.', so "FJumanae Vitae" (1968). This is envisages the social and economic Mike Witchalls popular with advocates of that (ideally) "each and every mar­ abortion-on-demand, could be ap­ riage act must remain open to the i n 11 i i i m i n i ix x x x x x m plied to children of all ages. But transmission of life". But it must not we don't kill our children because be assumed that "Humanae Vitae" UNIVERSITY RUGBY LEAGUE they are a burden to us. The only is the last word on the subject as H situation in which abortion may be far as the Catholic Church is con­ H FOOTBALL CLUB justified is, I believe, in order to cerned. The encyclical constituted a H TRAINING AT CORNWALL PARK save the life of the mother; this restatement of traditional values in H might be described as "killing in the face of continuing debate within MONDAY and WEDNESDAY self-defence", although 1 doubt the Church, and a point of depar­ H at 5.30 p.m. whether many mothers would delib­ H ture for further discussion. Further­ Vacancies for players in: erately kill a born child to save more the doctrine given in the en­ H SENIOR “B” their own lives. Abortion to prevent cyclical is not as rigidly orthodox as H the birth of a child with congenital is sometimes assumed; its main M THIRD GRADE — open age, max 12st 7lb defects is comparable to euthanasia, theme is that contraception is al­ EIGHTH GRADE — 18 yrs max 11st. 7lb and as has been pointed out quite ways a "disorder", a deviation from H often, could be equivalent to "kil­ what is right and natural, but never M NEW PLA YERS WELCOMED ling Beethoven". anything approaching mortal sin. H Abortion and infanticide are, in The various Catholic hierarchies H FORMER PLAYERS REMINDED effect, synonymous; the fact that a throughout the world, who have the Enquiries to Graeme Monteith ph 677*789 human being is in a primitive stage job of applying on a practical level H of development (i.e. is small and what has been stated by the Pope H ENJOY RUGBY LEAGE . . . helpless) does not make the killing in general terms, have approached M of it any more excusable. And sup­ the encyclical in different ways. THE MODERN GAME OF RUGBY port by Catholics for laws prohibit­ Quite a few have recognized that H The 8th Annual General Meeting still a large number of Malaysian and drinks from time to time. On A.M.S.A.) — carried out in black of 23rd March of the Malaysia- students who prefer to see an as­ the surface, such a gesture could and white — and form a com­ Singapore Students' Association, sociation running true in principle easily be passed on as 'looking after pletely different grouping for considering the low turn-out and and ideals to those of A.M.S.S.A. the interest of Malaysian students by Malaysian students while not dis­ the high non-commitance of the than that of the present A.M.S.A. creating opportunity to know each criminating against other students crowd, was a big flop. (Auckland Malaysian Students' As­ other better.' But, whether,through and at the same time capable of This was not at all surprising sociation), nonetheless, there is now such means, could a Malaysian courageous and responsible rep­ since members of the association a major change of attitude, and a identity be forged remains highly resentation under all circumstances. are traditionally 'meeting shy'. But reluctance to argue against the dis­ questionable. It was precisely under With the increasing number of what has made this ACM a spe­ solution of A.M.S.S.A. his rather naive motivation that the Malaysian students in Auckland and cially disappointing one was due to All the evidence put together, one now famous 'fourteen Malaysians' the growing interest in Malaysian af­ two reasons: Firstly, for the first is indeed more tempted to accept took to the crusade of forming fairs among the local people, it is time in many years, notices of the that the balance between greater A.M.S.A. in 1969 much against the important to have an effective body meeting were sent out by post to Malaysian Students disunity and the wishes of other Students. to liase between them. Welfare most if not all the members (and friendship with the Singaporeans The crux of the problem remains: workers, either appointed by the for a change, nobody complained now weighs very heavily on the could national identity be formed University or other institution could that he didn't know about the former. There is also a growing w il­ without recourse to understanding never be able to provide liaison as Meeting!) Secondly, nobody, just lingness to accept the fact that the national politics which all intimate as could be provided nobody, was interested enough to more and more Singaporeans are Malaysian students were and are by a national students’ body. But become the new President (imagine getting less and less interested in 'advised' to stay away from by the * somehow, this is often taken for that!) Naturally enough, questions the association either because they Malaysian Government officials? A granted. IT must therefore be em­ such as: "is A.M.S.S.A. a going are misled into believing that join­ national students' association, if it phasized that these (Welfare) people concern?" "Has it really lost its re­ ing such a grouping is unwise or were to 'instil into all its member could only do so much (in physical levance?" were raised once again. more probably, they wish to identify students a sense of love and pat­ terms) not forgetting that their re­ A request was even lodged for a with anything exclusively Sing­ riotism not only to their country but sources have to be distributed, at hand count on the number of Sing­ aporean — A.M.S.S.A. obviously to the aspirations of its masses' least theoretically, to every overseas apore members present. No hands! fails to fit into their classification. should not keep itself aloof from student in Auckland. A ltho ug h it was later discovered Whatever the reason, the stage is politics, as it is indeed the very Whatever else couldbe said, the there were in fact at least two now clear for a serious and kind of politics that has created so ACM of 23rd March decided to call much feeling of frustration misery p e rch in g passively high up in the thorough re-appraisal of the whole an SCM on April 20th to give all and division among the Malaysian back of the lecture theatre. But that situation. its members a chance to decide, people. was enough to add bitterness to Despite strenuous denials to the hopefully once and for all, whether some of the staunchest supporters of point of putting a deaf ear to all al­ This is precisely the dilemma of the existing status quo is indeed in those who are prepared to support the association. Have we legations that A.M.S.A. was and still the interest of Malaysian students in (Malaysians) been let down by the is a 'running dog' of the Malaysian .the motion of dissolution of Auckland. so-called rugged elital Singaporeans? High Commission, the A.M.S.A. A.M.S.S.A. but wanting to see a It will not be a referendum in the more worthy association take its The feeling was not born there and Committee, whether past or present, true sense of the word, but one place. Over the years, they have then. Some indignation was expres­ has repeatedly failed to present a which will shed some light on what sed at the time when most piece of credible evidence to satisfy lent their support to A.M.S.S.A. n could happen in the near future. Malaysians were in high-water,fol- the vast majority of Malaysian stu­ the belief that it could effectively , Meantime, the Pro-tem committee, challenge whoever and whatever is set up in the AGM, is now holding low lng the accusation of Jack de dents. Consequently, all the argu­ against the interests of its member the ground. Whether it could be­ Silva on Malaysian Students' com­ ment about creating a national iden­ students. Whichever succeeds its munist subversion activities in New tity (by forming A.M.S.A.) remains come a 'permanent' one or ended place, according to them, must at up as an undertaker in the event of Zealand. Not a single Singapore no more than a piece of grossly student came out to morally support misleading rhetoric. In the whole of least uphold this principle. the demise of A.M.S.S.A., depends his counterparts. the four years of its existence, the There is also a growing number very much on the response of April Although there is no question that association operated nothing more who are prepared to dissolve both 20th. associations (A.M.S.S.A. and JAYCEE ever» after that big 'flop', there are than a fun-club, offering free food

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At pre China, a There were signs that the United Nations was beginning to and Guam are packed with U.S. Government will be urged to en­ many mi missiles). sure that in all new community come to terms with the facts of life and that a new U.N. centre development projects, provi­ stockpile was emerging, said Dr. Martyn Finlay, Minister of Justice, Finally, the association will sup­ port the establishment of a N.Z. sion is made for family planning mention when he opened the annual conference of the United Na­ services as an essential part of Foundation for Peace Studies to T.N.T. fc community health. Government will tions Association of New Zealand at Victoria University re­ help foster a climate of peace here also be asked to observe a Univer­ Indeed s cently. (New Zealanders have fought in big sal Children's Day on an annual .The revitalised U.N., he added, and little wars and are now known aty, the 1011 Wellington (Auckland branch, date to be set. would be a better instrument than as the "Prussians of the Pacific"). Box 263). The conference held over a prop­ far large in the past because, while still bas­ The foundation would also promote As a frequent Auckland delegate osal that Government set up a cles, tha ing itself on the moral imperatives to association conferences, I also the formation of a peace studies of the Charter, it was learning to department at a local university. committee to study discrimination The hypo suggest that it streamline its meet­ against men as a parallel to the marshall and deploy its resources in ings, engage a Wellington journalist, Peace study centres are now func­ evident duri a way which corresponded to the tioning in Stockholm, London, Vie­ Select Committee on Women's Arms Limita part-time, to publicise them and ar­ Rights. (It hats been suggested that real world. nna, New York, Perth and other both power, range billeting and reduced fares for the women's committee be The U.N. was now universal and cities overseas. crease their visiting delegates. broadened to cover all forms of those who had knocked it for its vain bid to I sexual discrimination). failure to prevent wars had over- I ahead. The looked the mutiplicity of roles in that the Uni ENVIRONMENT AND POPULA­ which it had been engaging. These must escalat TION were the issues — social, economic, something v Government will be asked to set technological, environmental, give up at S up, an as independent agency, a humanitarian — which may be chips" cone National Institute of the Environ­ even more important to the world's "spirit of dc ment. This would initiate and co­ long-term future. that Nixon I ordinate research and monitor ac­ "There is a positive and necessary C h in a a n ( tivities, establish standards and make role for New Zealand to play," Dr. to th e 1 9 6 3 recommendations on national and Finlay added. "To play it we need atomic and local environment policies. As a to be more receptive than in the atmosphere, public advocate, it would also con­ past to the genuine needs which her recent " duct studies and make recommenda­ are brought to the U.N." not harm ful. tions in the areas of population and Speaking for the Opposition, Mr "THE BULLI economic growth. W.L. Young M.P. (Mirimar) said that hand, report Many delegates thought N.Z. al­ the National Party had always sup­ that a Unite* ready had a population problem ported the U.N. and the cause of Committee I because of the drift to the north that radio-ac justice. Under this head, we might from the south, and the concentra­ consider whether New Zealand had found to cai tion around Auckland. For example, human bein not been the first to introduce poli­ 70 per cent of all British immigrants tics into sports exchanges with vulnerable. to N.Z. settlein Auckland and now was prepare South Africa. (Next day, I pointed As usual, Auckland submitted NEWS MEDIA AND THE U.N. make up ten per cent of the popu­ scores of sp( out to the conference that, at South most of the remits for action arid so The new broadcasting organisa­ lation there, compared to thre eper countries, in Africa's insistence, Maoris had been became the Aunt Sally for less en­ tions will be urged to give the ful­ cent in Christchurch or Invercargill. T h e F re n c excluded from All'Black rugby terprising southerners. Following are lest possible coverage to TV and One delegate suggested that Gov­ teams to 5.A. from 1928 to 1970). also underta the most interesting proposals radio programmes about the ac­ ernment encourage or oblige immig­ The association's President, Mr the P o ly n e s i adopted. tivities of the U.N. and its agencies. rants to settle in the South Island. James Bel ich (Wellington), spoke of 12 M a rc h ). DISARMAMENT AND The association will also seek the (The Immigration Minister, Mr F.M. poverty today being as unacceptable BOMB TESTS co-operation of the press and Colman, is study8ng this idea). as war. He saw the likelihood of "France At the request of the Women's In­ broadcasting services in providing A Wellington girl reporter who the U.N. playing an even greater ternational League for Peace and regular information to the public on covered the conference opening — a guine role th&n before in the challenge nuclear bo Freedom, the association is support­ the full range of U.N. activities, in­ wanted to attend the evening ses­ facing the world in the next genera­ ing the formation ot a National cluding specific decisions and votes sion, on population. Unfortunately France," tion "to move towards a real peace, Committee on Disarmament by all cast by N.Z. The association will or significantly, her editor would away from the balance of terror, sai interested groups. The committee study the possibility of involving the not pay her overtime. Should this away from the balance of power French Poly will seek a meeting with the De­ Press and Broadcasting Councils in come under working rights or sex­ and towards a balance of justice." to the F re n c fence Minister, Mr A.J. Faulkner, cases where the news media may ual discrimination? France cont during International Disarmament have failed to help in this work. ASSN. EXPANSION Philip Soljak pleas of her Week, April 22-28, to discuss Gov­ In addition, the association will Mr. Bel ich, who was re-elected Vice-President tor either a ernment action. propose that Government ask the President by the conference, Auckland Branch p ro g ram m e In its efforts against nuclear tests, U.N. to set up an information also announced that the U.N. As­ U.N. Association of N.Z. tion. the association wiil urge Govern­ centre in N.Z. or that, failing this, sociation itself would acquire a But w h a t ment to ask the U.N. Decolonisa­ the U.N. and the Government will "new look" for expansion this year. can it affect fSPs&s tion Committee to investigate the pay the association to distribute really harmt With the increase of the annual status of French Polynesia and New U.N. information. Government grant.from $4,000 to Prize add res Caledonia (both involved in French P a u lin g des< $10,000, the association would have nuclear testing). The committee has HUMAN RIGHTS a fulltime Director — the Rev. been blocked from studying these Government will be urged to "The exp Haddon Dixon, former Director of areas because Paris claims they are liberalise the criteria used by the weapons ir Corso. Inter-alia, Mr Dixon will ac­ part of metropolitan France, though Film Censorship Board of Appeal. erates radi< tivate the association's branches they receive U.N. development aid. (Censorship is tightening. A Soviet ducts — cc where necessary, recruit new mem­ Meanwhile, the U.N. is preparing to political film on the China dispute 90, iodine bers (especially younger ones), liaise investigate the New Hebrides, has been banned along with "Last In addition with Government, voluntary associa­ jointly ruled by Britain and France. Tango" and "Lion's Love".) suit from tl tions, the World Federation of U.N. (Each is waiting for the other to Government will be asked to with nitrog Associations (Geneva) and the U.N. leave). accept the repeated invitation of the mosphere t itself and promote the sale of U.N. The association will also urge U.N. Committee on Apartheid to of radio-ac publications and the association's Government to initiate, at the U.N. join it. (The N.Z. delegation at the 14, which i magazine, "World Affairs". Annual General Assembly next September, U.N. says it has b^en too busy so the organic sujas. to the association are: students the establishment of a South Pacific far. The committee chairman, Mr I'AHOfl human beii and pensioners, $1; ordinary rate, zone free of nuclear weapons, fol­ Edmund Ogbu, who is Nigerian • L v e r t, fission proc $2.50; married couples, $3; corpo­ lowing the precedent of the Latin Ambassador to the U.N., will visit ing the poc rate^membership, $15. The American zone set up in 1967. (The N.Z. in June as a Government plasm and i association's address is P.O. Box UAL IO North Pacific is out, since Hawaii guest). of defective THAT BOMB

At present, five nations — U.S.A., U.S.S.R., Britain, China, and France — possess nuclear weapons; many more are envious. The nuclear club has now stockpiled weapons with the explosive power (not to mention radiation) of approximately twenty tons of T.N.T. for every man, woman and child on earth. Indeed since the signing of the 1963 Test Ban Tre­ aty, the two superpowers have built nuclear arsenals far larger, with far more sophisticated delivery vehi­ cles, than was ever envisaged in 1963.

The hypocrisy of it all was again Professor Pauling went on to evident during the recent Strategic point out that carbon 14 deserves Arms Limitation. Talks which saw our special attention because, with both powers race to further in­ its mean life of 8,000 years, it will crease their nuclear stockpiles in a be the main cause of genetic dam­ vain bid to keep just one step age if the human race lasts that ahead. The argument was given long, and because the so-called that the United States, for one, "clean bombs" actually produce must escalate in order to have more carbon 14 than other kinds of something worthwhile to agree to nuclear bomb. give up at SALT — the “ bargaining chips" concept. So much for the There is no argument among ex­ “spirit of detente and negotiation" perts about these facts. Nuclear that Nixon lauded. bomb tests in the atmosphere cause China and France, not signatories radio-active material to enter our to the 1963 Treaty, continue to test bodies. Some of this fall-out will atomic and hydrogen bombs in the still be significantly radio-active after atmosphere. France maintains that thousands of years. Leading her recent “ small yield" tests are specialists like Prof. John Gofman, not harmful. The Australian weekly, for many years one of the U.S. "THE BULLETIN'-', on the other Atomic Energy Commission's experts hand, reported in February last year on the health hazards from Low that a United Nations Scientific levels of radiation, and now profes­ Committee had found (in late '72) sor of Medical Physics at Berkeley that radio-active iodine has been and Professor James Crow, a past found to cause thyroid tumours in president of the American Genetics human beings. Babies are the most Society, agree that any extra radia­ vulnerable. The U.N.'s information tion as fall-out is likely to cause was prepared with the help of damage to health in this generation, scores of specialists from a host of and inherited defects in future gen­ countries, including France. erations. The idea of a "permissible The French Test programme is dose" or “ safe threshold" is a also undertaken at the expense of myth. the Polynesian people (see Craccum Even disregarding the effects on 12 March). generations yet unborn, Pauling es­ timated that the fall-out up to 1963 would cause the deaths five, ten or “France treats us like nothing fifteen years early, from diseases — a guinea pig for dropping such as cancer and leukemia, of nuclear bombs for the glory of about two million people then liv­ France," ing. There is little doubt that the said Francis Sandford, French Government's testing prog­ French Polynesia's representative ramme is designed to perfect hyd­ to the French National Assembly. rogen bombs as an integral part of France continues to ignore the its "Force de Frappe." Yet Pauling A 10 MEGATON HYDROGEN nuclear exchange would be pleas of her Polynesian “ citizens" estimates that the atmospheric test­ BOMB.... carried by wind and water for either a cessation of the test ing of even a single 20 megaton ..By blast would flatten every person and soil and seed to the far programme or for self determina­ hydrogen bomb would sacrifice (if and thing within an 8-mile radius. tion. the human race survives) about half corners of the globe and to ..By fire would cause second degree generations unborn . . . The But what about fall-out? How a million children, of whom about burns to people within a radius of can it affect human beings? ls it 50.000 would live but be “ grossly 25 miles. loss of even one human life really harmful? In his 1963 Nobel defective", and perhaps also about ..By radio-active fall-out would sac­ or the malformation of even Prize address, Professor Linus 70.000 now living, who may die rifice one quarter of a million future one baby - who may be born Pauling described "fall-out". prematurely from diseases such as children of whom 25,000 would leukemia. long after we are gone - live but be grossly defective and should be of concern to_ us “The explosion of nuclear Some apologists for the nuclear perhaps also about 35,000 people weapons in the atmosphere lib­ club have argued that medical now living who may die prema­ all. Our children and grand­ erates radio-active fission pro­ x-rays would subject a patient to a turely of leukemia or other forms of children are not merely statis­ ducts — cesium 137, strontium higher radiation dose than he would cancer (calculations by Professor tics towards which we can be 90, iodine 131, and many others. receive from bomb test-induced Linus Pauling, twice Nobel Prize indifferent." In addition the neutrons that re­ radiation. Maybe so. But here lies winner). John F. Kennedy — July 1963 sult from the explosion combine the faulty logic. Nuclear bombs are with nitrogen nuclei in the at­ of no benefit to anyone. They do "Total war makes no "It is my estimate that mosphere to form large amounts not, like medical x-rays, have any sense in an age when a about 700,000 viable children of radio-active isotope of carbon compensating benefit for the risks single nuclear weapon con­ will be born with gross physi­ 14, which is incorporated into involved. The peoples of French tains almost ten times the ex­ cal or mental defects caused the organic molecules of every Polynesia and the South Pacific human being. These radio-active have no say in a matter that is our plosive force delivered by all by the cesium 137 and other fission products are now damag­ concern. We have no reason to ac­ the allied air forces in the fission products from the ing the pool of human germ cept the health hazards from nuc­ Second World War. It makes bomb tests carried out from plasm and increasing the number lear testing — no matter who the no sense in an age when the of defective children born". offender may be. deadly poisons produced by a cont’d nextpag® :i:

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A s muons Givi i can swop places with one another so ences. Ours must be a contribution Mr Kirk a -Walls may keep the physical self from your children that someone can go to hockey trials commensurate with an acknowledg­ nation. Ev But no wall is yet invented which imprisons souls. or scuba diving or whatever. That's ment of his basic human dignity, a Amongst And so your spirit dwells amongst us, lifting those that fall one of our functions. But not dignity stripped from him by the speculation Encouraging us further once we've risen from the dirt. everyone is suited for, or indeed even starkness of simple incarceration. cares for, visiting. In the words of I didn't mention it. That's a different years after Midge . ... I fell in love scene. Leave you idealism at home. during the because . . . We don't want it. Painful as it may even more. . . . you cared seem we must simply accept the real­ Undaunted, In five minutes we had said all ity of our bastilles, our social laundry Rent Tribunal WE COULD SAY. We say look­ bins and try and work within the that before oi ing the hour away... abhorrent structure. Reform is some­ raise rents he ...I'll send another 'visit! ng slip' thing else, something we would all before the Tri so we can um dearly embrace and do actively pur­ M.P.'s have b and ah and talk some more shit. sue as individuals. Perhaps, indirectly their salary ri or simply by establishing a certain they had impi It is not easy to be conversational mana, we will give the prison ad­ something. Yc in a set and sterile situation, where ministration the strength to loosen electricity cin you share only a faint, stale commun­ their tight grip on the pettiness which from leaking. ion. It is easy to be insensitive, to today serves as their security and the Now if ther trample and destroy faith readily justification of their distasteful job. made land lore grasped. But visiting need not be our But we must put this firmly beyond idea of having entire universe. the scope of Incare as an organisa­ to squeeze ou How? Sport. . . hobbies. . . in­ tion. to his puritan terests. We're currently pursuing elu­ forced to circi sive campus club secretaries and sug­ Norm. gesting to them that they organise Well, they'r some of their activities in the luxuri­ They find sorr ous setting of Mt. Eden or the lush Incare: Students for Prisoners with two kids pastures of rural Paremoremo. Rock- Club. say $60. A bk climbing is obviously out, so's Labour If you are interested in our $35 for his rei club. . . but there are a vast number group or would like to offer us his wife and r of apolitical, superficially harmless Having found your services, contact: groups who could be prodded into do — he must useful activity within the walls. To Simon Jefferson 540-209 of the populat achieve anything two ingredients are Hazel Armstrong 763-868 falls sick. needed. Firstly, we need to motivate Graeme Colgan 685-462 Now our bl such groups, secondly, interest the Maria Jungowska 542-649 enterprising, e prison administration in your activity. or write to Incare, C l- Studass. self-sufficient, We will bully and cajole to achieve saved. He has the initial motivation. The second fac­ after feeding a tor is not so easy and we will tread and kids with warily here, using our experience and his excess mo occasional inspired flashes of diplo­ or oil, or shar< macy, in an effort to combine the two I wasted it all o ingredients. THAT BOMB I and he can't f Our activities are not limited to [couple of wee campus. We are trying to infiltrate co n t’d... So if our en subversive groups like Rotary, and 1 rietor can get Round Table. In particular we're at­ him out for nc 1952-1963, and 1,500,000 tempting to get them to sponsor some rent, and relet extension of educational facilities in m o re , if the human race sur­ bunal, you se< more specialised subjec ts than the jus­ vives,, with gross defects The method tice Department budget can be justifi­ caused by the carbon 14 from are extraordin ably stretched to include. In addition these bomb tests. In addition , tie. He sends there are groups like the People's blokes these. I about ten times as many em­ Union, who run the buses to I wife while hui Poremoremo and Waikeria, the Pro­ b ry o n ic , neo-natal and child­ ject Aroha who have both the man- hood deaths are expected - px)wer and the motivation but lack a a b o u t 1,000,000 c a u s e d b y little in resources. Also there are the fission products and groups like Nga Tamatoa which by Carbon 14. An necessarily become involved in prison /50,000 work and will continue to do so even larger number of chil­ whilst our judicial system proceeds to dren may have minor defects enmesh young Polynesians at an caused by the bomb tests." Paul Morrison, labelled, classified Incare, Students for Prisoners' Aid, was formed and resus­ alarming rate. We hope to be of som. Prof. Linus Pauling and categorised, wrote that in assistance to all of these organisa­ twice Nobel Prize winner Paremoremo. More despairing is citated this year in order toiincrease the supply of those 'influences.' tions. One of the saner fragments of Tramp's cry----- There is much one can do as an Uncle Albert's Orgasmic Orchestra 'It is more generally recog­ Someone, somewhere cares, individual. hopes to repair enough friendships nized that the very existence amongst entertainers to be able to set This unwanted feeling can't be Visiting immediately comes to of mankind is in danger. It is mind. Quite a few of us do it already. up concerts; various film societies are real. endangered from three differ­ It just can't be this way always: You don't really need to join a group about to be asked if they can help There must be another soul out to do that. boost the supply of 16 mm films; an ent sides: war,.pollution and there There's a danger here though. amateur theatrical group who are un­ over population. Of the three To whom I could give my love, Visiting is a commitment. fortunate enough to have an Incare things, war is the most acute Which I'd want them to share. When you're 'inside' life is lived member in their midst are being one, not only because it can psyched into doing something in pris­ from event to event. A visit is an end our existence in one event. Letting the recipient down can ons. For the time being we must accept cause all the hurt of a romantic dis­ In short we're in the 'awareness' blow, but also because it taps the existence of prisons. More impor­ appointment. scene too. Quite unashamedly we're the resources which we need tantly we must accept the existence Romance? The analogy is not a manipulating people with talents and to meet the other two." of people inside them. People. Ordi­ drastic overstatement. There is a cer­ resources by showing them the pris­ from the CRAZY APE nary people in an extraordinary envi­ tain similarity of emotional reliance. ons and saying: Look, there's one of Albert Szent-Gyoryi, M.D. Ph. ronment. As far back as 1895 the Student . . . commitment; are not our greatest social sores. Why don't Nobel Laureate for medicine British Gladstone Committee re­ these terms mutually exclusive? you help the healing process? But we're not out to insult the in­ ported: 'The great majority of prison­ Perhaps Incare can relieve the burden "A balance of terror is still ers are ordinary men, amenable . . . mate. Offering him menial's of commitment by bringing together te rro r." to all those influences which affect privileges, extending our charity just three or four people who visit only Professor George Wald persons outside.' once a month instead of weekly, who far enough to sate our meagre consci­ IPlease... Giving Money Lowers Morale Mr Kirk and his intrepid Labour Lads have saved the nation. Everybody knows this. Amongst entry permits and things like that he solved the land Ecology Action is organising the speculation problem by high taxes on property sold less than two recycling of waste paper through­ "Happy Birthday to you out the University. We propose to years after it was bought. Brilliant solution. Had the effect of re­ Happy Birthday to you!" ducing the amount of property available and putting up prices place clearly marked collection even more. her move the furniture around. Sug- •bins throughout the University and Undaunted, Norm introduced the gest they ought to leave. hope that staff and students will Rent Tribunal. The idea of this was Sometimes they move in while our C h i n e s e put clean waste paper in these that before our greedy landlord could couple are absent and lock them out. containers. They will be emptied raise rents he had to justify the rise Sometimes our couple arrive home by voluntary labour and the paper before the Tribunal — just as the ^id find their furniture in the street. . p o o r ) sent to the Sheltered Workshops M.P.'s have been forced to justify Just your friendly neighbourhood and the Auckland City Council, their salary rise — by showing that well-adjusted capitalist helping them The aim of your humble repor­ who both run paper collection they had improved the property or to move out. services. something. You know, installing safe To protect these people from their ter is to inv/estigate and report At present there is a world electricity circuits, stopping the roof friends, the People's Union have a upon those establishments which paper shortage. By recycling paper from leaking. Luxury things like thaL "Squat Squad", people who, on re­ he feels are within the means of Now if there's one thing our self- ceiving a phone call are prepared to the average student, and which the demand on existing forestry made landlord hates, its luxuries. The go to 'our block's' house and help because of reasonable prices pro­ resources can be reduced and idea of having to install them in order him put his furniture back. People vide a reasonable alternative to many problems associated with to squeeze out more rent it abhorrent who are prepared to say, sit on our eating at home. Hence those Waste Paper disposal avoided. to his puritan soul. So he's been bloke's lawn and wave and smile at places charging a total bill of New Zealand has presently the forced to circumvent our brother the heavies till they leave. more than $1.50 — $2.00 a head lowest percentage of recycled Norm. Unfortunately, these friendly squat have been omitted. <- paper in the industrial world. Well, they're cagey, our Ratlanders. squadders have to work, or sleep YUK KING CAFE — SYMONDS The Auckland City Council has They find some typical tenant, bloke even and can't be got quickly started a paper collection service with two kids below average wage, enough, and they're being called out STREET: in theA Ponsonby area. It is hoped say $60. A bloke who's paying say more and more often as property be­ Prices are reasonable: $1.30 that the successful organisation of $35 for his rented house ^nd leeping comes more short in supply and more Chop Suey, $2.50 for half a chic­ his wife and nippers on the other $25. expensive. In fact your average land­ ken. I was unimpressed with the paper recycling ^t an administra­ Having found him — not difficult to lord is having a bit of a field day. standard of service and the food. tive institution like the University do — he must comprise at least 30% So you can help. If you are friendly, Port chop suey left a lot to be de­ will encourage the Council to ex­ of the population, they wait until he like meeting new people, or having a sired both from considerations of tend their service to the Central falls sick. drink on the new friend's lawn, get ingredients and the.manner in City area. It is here that the Now our bloke hasn't been a good, your name down on the People's which it was served. I didn't enjoy greatest quantity of waste paper is enterprising, enlightened, al 1-Kiwi, Union Squat list. it. generated and paper recycling is self-sufficient, capitalist. He hasn't All you have to do is give me your likely to be economic. saved. He hasn't progressed. In short, name and phone number, or leave it DYNASTY: Ecology Action has placed bins after feeding and clothing his wife at Studass. I can't promise you a party A number (6) of happy and ob­ around the Students Association and kids with his $25 he hasn't used every night but your potential pres­ liging Chinese chefs, together with his excess money to invest in property ence will be reassuring to a lot of building and has a large holding spartan surroundings add up to a or oil, or shares in gold mines. He's people. bin placed behind it. We are most enjoyable meal at a givea­ wasted it all on riotous debauchery, Or even better you can stroll down negotiating with the University Au­ and he can't pay his rent. He gets a to the People's Union on Ponsonby way price. I had Sukiaki (Beef and thorities about extending the pro­ couple of weeks behind. Road, and hand your name in there. If Blackbean sauce) served with ject into the whole university. To So if our enlightened little prop­ you go on Monday you can help sort chop suey vegetables, bean shoots date we have not been able to get rietor can get in quick he can kick vegetables at their food co-op. and a side dish of rice — $1.70. A authority to do so because a large him out for nonpayment, bung up the Apparently 15% of our population cup of china tea — free. Every­ percentage of the paper used in rent, and relet. Avoiding thus the Tri­ lives below the poverty line in New thing was cooked and served to the University is considered Con­ bunal, you see. Zealand. perfection, and the service left no-7 fidential and must be disposed of The methods used by our proprietor That's a lot of people. And they thing to be desired. with security. are extraordinarily legalistic and sub­ need a lot of help. If you've got the The menu was wide and the tle. He sends in his heavies. Nice time. PLEASE CO-OPERATE. blokes these. Friendly chat with the prices ludicrously cheap. PLACE CLEAN WASTE PAPER wife while husband is at work. Help DAVID COLBOURN. Highly recommended. IN THE RECYCLING BINS. Come to FILM The Hot Hou/c 2001 - a space odyessy 190 FEDERAL ST. (Between Wellesley & Cook Sts.) 7-45pm B28 april 18th MIXED SAUNA & STEAM BATHING Thursday night HOT POOL COLD POOL SHOWERS ' MASSAGE (EXTRA) PART-TIME WORK LOUNGE T V. CAFETERIA The Students’ Association has acquired a new IBM Standalone Composer at great ex­ $1.50 each pense. This-magnificent machine is to be used fof typesetting for Association publications as STUDENT CONCESSION w ell as outside w ork. The machine is very simi­ lar to an IBM typew riter and requires very little extra training to use. SS-OO PER COUPLE We are looking for operators. What we have in mjpd is for two people to share the job on a MON-FRI 8-11 pm SUNDAY 2-10 pm part time basis. A short training course will be given and w e w ill pay for your time during this. So if you are a competent typist and would like a TOWELS FOR HIRE part time job on this basis please contact the Association Secretary, Sharyn Cederman Premises available for hire - Phone 378-375 phone 30-789 ex. 85. Our Man in Lusaka W.ssn our la no longer o» Rhodesia all its trade was orientated cal defoliants to Portugal for use in Rhodesians considering themselves loses its me* to the South through Rhodesia South Angola and Mozambique. a cut above the Boers socially. Africa and Mozambique. Since the But there are other aspects of the Sanctions too are hurting the border closure of early 1973 by Ian situation which may change the pic­ Smith regime say the Lusakans. It is one re; Smith, a new orientation of trade is ture when the 'Uhuru' railway is Rhodesia is in need of new agricul­ cotics Act of taking place, and from late 1974 the completed. Frelimo, the movement tural machinery and its mining out wi «ether eastern flow of goods along the Tan- for the liberation of Mozambique equipment is worn and outmoded. posals are eqi zam railway to Dares-Salaam will has deliberately stayed their hand in The oil embargo is having a drastic ed is debatao radically alter the Interdependence attacks on the Beira-Umtali railway effect on the economy. Smith must challenge in t of Zambia with its neighbours. that links M ozambique to Rhodesia, compromise. He is being pressured the Report o W hat are they saying about this in so that imports to Zambia etc. can by all sides for compromise with Committee o Lusaka? 'This w ill make us indepen­ percolate through Beira and up Bishop Muzorewa. The British have and Drug ALi dent of the illegal regime in Zim­ through Malawi. This will not be a catastrophic economic problem the Governm babwe (Rhodesia)', 'This will .allow necessary when the new trade route on their hands and do not wish to quietly out t? the freer flow of our copper exports is available and Lusakans say that bolster Smith any more: the South The Report to the world markets without putting then Frelimo will step up its attacks Africans have not forgiven him for cautious appi freight rates into the pockets of our and smash Mozambique's com­ the border closure without prior And yet even enemies, this will ease the shortages munications. Also by moving into consultation with them the Por­ "We cannot s which Smith's border closure has these regions along the tuguese have many reservations belief that leg presented us with'. It has led to Mozambique-Umtali railway, the about the operations of guerrilla par­ be used as sp; closer co-operation with Tanzania power lines that carry electricity ties of freedom fighters from inside when other n with whose help the railway is being from the Cabora Bassa Dam to the Smith's border. All the white re­ tried and fail< built by China's massive overseas Republic of S.A. will be exposed to gimes resent the spotlight that the Their recomn aid — the opening up of remote Frelimo's demolition teams. border closure focused on Southern of cannabis w areas that had no major communi­ Other talking points concern Africa, and on Kenneth Kaunda's That cannabi: cations before the new railway. prospects for the Smith regime in methods to alleviate the situation. A abis resin (ha: Perhaps the more significant ef­ Salisbury. There are many who think calm face was a.major effort of the cannabi^ shot fects of the railway and border clos­ that this w ill be 'the first white egg in South African Publicity and Prop­ schedule (or | ure will be,the change of attitudes the box of minority regimes to aganda Department. containing dr and activities that will emerge from break'. Internal dissensions appear What abou. compromise with potential for this re-orientation of trade. Zambia to be a very real problem for Smith. Muzorewa? Even the Rhodesian Further the C will become more independent and His Defence forces stretched to their press is speaking of the necessity to mended: thus perhaps take a harder line with full capacity have had to seek help reach some sort of agreement and "That except the white regimes to the south — from the army of the Republic of 'to put some more black faces in circumstance: certainly this is what Lusaka is say­ South Africa. His blacks in the army Parliament'. But whereas this might prisonment sf Lusaka is the capital city of Zam­ ing. What forms will a 'harder line' are rebelling against the savagery of have worked three or four years ago posed for the bia, a city of some 300,000 in a take? More support to the Liberation the detention camps into which the situation is different now and use of a drug land-locked independent African Movements that struggle for the lib­ their 'brothers' are being herded. political awareness and conscience lesser harmfu state of 4% million persons. It is a eration of their homelands, is one The white Rhodesian officers are have reached a stage now where the western-type city with its broad possible demonstration of harder finding it's not like world war two, African w ill not be caught napping. The Drug (I line action another might be the im­ avenues lined with jacarandas and the 'good old days' of the Ala- Too much hardship and inhumanity use) Bill, intn position of further economic em­ mein campaign. Many whites are have been caused to him and his and modern concrete and glass final week of bargo on Portugal's colonial ter­ territorials and insufficiently trained brothers since the Pearce Commis­ office blocks. Here in this fusion session, does ritories and the white settler re­ or motivated to cope with the dedi­ sion episode for him to trust the (ficommendal of African and European cultures gimes; Zambia after all is a major cation of ZANU's and ZAPU's white regime at all. Muzorewa will Under a facac on the plateau of Central Africa copper producer and a member of forces. seek talks, but those talks will be drugs accordi there is one unifying talking CEPEC (the association of Copper There is also dissension between aimed at creating a real policy of for harm, the point: the South. exporting countries). With 97% of the S.A. troops and the Rhodesian. self-determination, not a facade to re-enactment Over 50% of Zambia's borders its exports being copper it may fol­ Rhodesian are less professional as appease some white consciences. the Narcotics are bounded by hostile regimes of low the example of the oil produc­ soldiers but it is the South Africans the white minority powers of South­ ing states to put pressure on South who are suffering most of the casual­ ern African states: Rhodesia, Africa and her allies. To put pressure ties along the borders. The arrog­ FROM Namibia, Angola and Mozambique. for example on those regimes which ance of the Afrikaaner does not go TOBY TRUELL Under the legacies of colonial rule sell arms to South Africa and Por­ down well with the arrogance of the 'THE IN LUSAKA when Zambia was Northern tugal which sell napalm and chemi­ white Rhodesian settlers, the The Three 5 central Russia It is an exerci: and is prpheti On a mundi BEFORE YOU BUY A NEW BIKE idealises the v conformity ai COUNT. supreme impc THE FORBES AND DAVIES STICKERS ON THE BIKES OUTSIDE the piece dev< COUNT epitomise a lit THE NEW HONDAS THAT GO PAST iness. This asp COUNT into recent pi THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE BOUGHT MORE THAN ONE BIKE FROM US ation and intc COUNT Absurd. YOUR PENNIES AND COME IN AND BUY YOUR NEW HONDA FROM US. The Mercur THEN LATER YOU CAN is tolerably su COUNT ing these varic UP WHAT YOU SAVE IN AFTER SALES SERVICE WITH OUR 10% STUDENT ions. DISCOUNT ON PARTS AND ACCESSORIES. 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W.isn our laws are regarded as unjustified by many people then they are no longer operable. In such a situation social cohesion is lost and law emselves loses its meaning, which is the lesson of prohibition. ially. ■ting the usakans. It is one reason why the Nar­ inction is drawn between the poss­ the powers of search and seizure this Bill, as it re-enforces a status v agricul- cotics Act of 1965 needed revising- esion and use of cannabis plant, and by the Police, without warrant. quo under cahllenge. i mining aut whether the Government's pro­ possesion and use of cannabis resin. The powers of search and seizure It does nothing to ameliorate jtmoded. posals are equal to the change requir­ Tne present penalty in respect of without warrant are retained for society's understanding of a com­ a drastic ed is debatable. Instead of facing the both offences - 3 months imprison­ LSD, opium, morphine, cocaine, plex subject insofar as it still stip­ iith must challenge in terms emphasised oy ment or a $500 fine, or both - is cannabis resin (hashish) and cann­ ulate criminal penalties rather than )ressured the Report of the Board of Health retained. abis plant. Under the masquerade recognising changing social values. iise with Committee on Drug Dependency of progress , thus time stands still! Laws that are out of touch have tish have and Drug Abuse in New Zealand, The Minister, Mr Tizard, justifies The Bill represents nothing new little validity and may themselves problem the Government chose to sneak this omission because of a U.S. in its dpproachto drugs. It is no be inducements to criminality t wish to quietly out tne back door. University Report which is said to advance but a recognition of stale­ which paradoxically is what they he South The Report is an entirely raise some doubts about the effects mate. set out to constrain. i him for cautious approacii to the problem. of cannabis. Tiie basic objection, however, )ut prior And yet even this Committee stated; It is a case of sheer desperation - Laws ultimately recognise the must not be to the laws that exist the Por- "We cannot stress too strongly our for the one report which hasn't even currents of society's thinking. in our society but to the society rvations belief that legal sanctions should been studied properly - every other The objections we have to tiiem that seeks their enforcement. rrilla par- be used as sparingly as possible, report from the Indian Hemp Report must be on the basis that they For too long New Zealand has m inside when other methods have been of J889, has found the contrary. fail to articulate the social concerns been a monocultural, conformist /hite re- tried and failed” . of the society they legislate for. society whose laws are traditionally Their recommendation in respect oased. Revision comes slowly and that the Presuming the Report is no This then is the real objection to Southern ofcannabis was clear: inadequately and creates discont­ red herring, then the correct That cannabis plant, but not cann­ ented minorites. That is not the (aunda's procedure for the Minister to jation. A abis resin (hashish) or extracts of yardstick of a responsible society follow would have been to have >rt of the cannabi^ should be placed in a but ratiier of an introverted and delayed the Bill's introduction id Prop- schedule (or part of a schedule) timid one. Social experimentation until it could be comprehensive - containing drugs with a lesser is needed and our laws must not in other words after the report ise with potential for harm.” be inimical to it. * had been studied. The other al­ odesian Further the Committee recom­ Ultimately whether the Bill is ternative was to refer the Bill to :essity to mended: extended to include lesser penalties the Select Committee sitting on lent and "That except in most unusual for drugs of less toxicity will it. Instead the status quo is faces in circumstances a penalty of im­ entrenched because of a hypo­ depend on the Select Committee. lis might prisonment should not be im­ thetical report which no one Of these Dr Wall, Mr Downey and ears ago posed for the mere possesion or knows anything about. Air Commodore Gill are expected iow and use of a drug in a schedule of Much will be made by the to be against lesser penalties while iscience lesser harmfulness” . 'here the Government o f the classification Mr Marshall and Mr Rogers can be napping, The Drug (Prevention of Mis­ of drugs which the Bill puts into expected to favour them. The umanity use) Bill, introduced during the categories according to potential swingers are Mr Smith, Mr Gander and his final week of the last Parliamentary for harm. But when such an inno­ and Mr Wilkinson. lommis- session, does not seek to enact the vation is not a vehicle for a more As the BiiS is more Cabinet's than :rust the recommendations of the Report. rational approach to the drug the Minister's, Mr Tizard as Chair ?wa will Under a facade of classification of question it becomes man is there to represent its collect­ w ill be drugs according to their potential merely a meaningles embellish- vv ive decision. Although personally ment. ** lolicy of for harm, the Bill effects a complex against the status quo his ability Some eyebrows have already icade to re-enactment of the provisions of to advocate opposition to it is been raised at the proposals in­ iences. the Narcotics Act 1965. No dist­ hindered by this factor. corporated in the Bill, to restrict Murray McCulley and Brent Lewis.

INTERNATIONAL UNION OF THE THREE SISTERS' SOCIALIST YOUTH The Three Sisters is about individuality and fails to return sig­ igmatic aloofness and later with Come to the IUSY seminar at central Russian life in the 1890s, nificant values; it is a time of flour­ the sense of sensible resignation ' Hunua Falls this weekend. It is anexercisei in characterisation ishing effete science, where any that all the sisters come to possess. and is prphetic ;on two levels. attempt to handle current ideas Anna Campion has been given a Saturday. Migrant Workers, Germany, Singapore, Samoa. On a mundane level the [play is dilletante and comic. complex, demanding role which idealises the worker state where It is easy to be enthusiastic she obviously had great difficulty New Zealand. Industrial Democracy. conformity and utility are of about the play and Mercury’s in sustaining, but her youthful Sweden, Israel, N.Z.. Evening supreme importance. Secondly version has its own merit. It has one zest which distorts into her own Polynesian Reception. Sunday. Conference Issued the piece develops characters who tremendous virtue, it is funny. sense of waste is at times quite epitomise a life of tedious ordinar­ CHekov wrote the piece as a moving. Northey, Bassett, M aysoi. Socialism iness. This aspect brings Chekov comedy and this production The production itself moved a in N.Z.. Goff, Lewis. Socialism in South into recent philosophical specul­ successfully out not only the little lethargically but time should Pacific: Samoa, Fiji, Nuie, Papua New ation and into the world of the broad comic situations but the give it the sparkle that the first Guinea, New Hebrides, Tonga, Phil Amos, Absurd. less obvious elements of comic night performance suggested lay Get enrolment forms from Brent Lewis - The Mercury’s new production repartee. beneath the surface. at Craccum, or ring the Labour Party at is tolerably successful at emphasis­ In this repect Grant McFarland RA Y WARU 32-156 or 32-157, or 687-064 (evenings) ing these various thematic directions steals the show with his relentless ions. farmyard immitations. Elizabeth I.U.S.Y. BUREAU MEETING: NEW ZEALAND 1974 The world at the plays opening Coulter, perhaps alittle too Coward and at its conclusion is that land too camp, makes Natasha irritating International Union of Socialist Youth is an International organisation of Democ­ scape of ruoble , devoid of meaning and boisterous. She and McFarland ratic Socialist Parties representing Argentine, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Burma, and peopled by etherised slow Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Finland, France, Germany, U.K., provide just the right counter Greece, Iceland, India^ndonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Korea, Luxembourg, Malay­ moving human shadows. This is the balance to the sombre portraits of sia, Malta, Mauritius, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, N.Z., Panama, Paraguay, San desert of razed civilisation that is the sisters. Marino, Singapore, Spain, Sti Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland Tanzania, U.S.A., the background of Godot and End Jan Bashford and Ilona Roberts Uraguay, and Venezuela. game. are a superbly appropriate tour-de­ The paly has an intelligible core, force as Olga and Masha. Bashford it is about frustration and lonliness; has a kind of plaintive domesticity Come to the I.U.S.Y.Semirtar this Weekend! it is about the world that represses tht Rogers off-sets at first with en­ .BEAT KlF <^TO O nJ , T>o I T 1 more fulfilling state of being that re­ ter. All meditations are transcenden A TTENTION,MASOCHISTS! ,Ho rt M e jH o e r nders the previous behaviour un­ tal, when practiced to a sufficient MÊ FLAY necessary. degree — lesser degrees bring physi­ c u For example, just as many yoga cal relaxation, mental release from practitioners personally known to the tensions, expansion of the conscious­ When Douglas McIntosh banned "Last Tango Paris7*, and the Progress is oi Film Appeal Board upheld him, there was a great furore in New writer have overcome the need for ness and siddhic powers. . . from this drugs of all kinds, so also have others practice the soul can be seen striving " C u ltu re S Zealand. After all, hadn't Pauline Kael said it was a cinematic overcome greed impulses (overeating for the Source of all Creation, a “ back contact with masterpiece. of wrong foods, attachment of the ego to Godhead" — hence the overcom­ parts of the v Other people differ — Vaughan Robertson saw it in Australia to sense-objects, etc...... ) We do not ing of the physical bondages are the T h ro u g h s< • 19 and here's his impressions. make any practice of asking people to first step. been the red give up “ vices" in our classes (this Thus we teach the three-fold path to a sh a tterei would be like a doctor expecting a of Self-Inquiry, Self-Understanding, niche of litth Jesus this is dull, I thought, halfway patient to cure himself before he has Self-Realisation. through Australian Movietone News. f n te g u a l received any treatment), but many Note that things aren't done to you, THE ACHE lb (l» Christ this is boring, I mused, halfway people do come to this state eventu­ but you do it all yourself by the prac­ PARAGUAY through some banal epic about two y o g a ally, through their own will. (Condensed fi greasy looking Eskimos stuttering ac­ Yoga is a scientific system for tices we make available to you. Un­ derstanding lies within your Soul, de­ 11 by Mark N ross Outer Iceland searching for al­ The address was chaired by awakening the Divine Consciousness The Ache li bino seals. lusion lies within your ego/personality Robbie (a longtime believer and in man. It is a process of overcoming wandering hu the mundane physical material bon­ (so well known as a player's mask to God, this is enervating, I muttered, practitioner himself in the yok­ shield us from the emotional wound- Eastern Parag quarterway through LAST TANGO IN dages of the earthly plane; of yoking hunting band ing together of the physical and together jivatma (individual soul) with ings of the world). So if anything PARIS. mental elements of the body makes you experience anger or fear, persons, each The message is clear; if this territory, the and mind in healthy living). In look deeply for the cause and fault cinematic sleeping pill ever does get within your own being. bounded by t the background are Mr Lew The hunting to New Zealand, don't go out of your We only wish to present Truth as it way to see it. Postlewaite, President N.Z. Di­ has come to us through the practices into sub-zone One fine day earlier this year I vine Life Society and President of yoga as a way of life, in states it rotation in or< managed to stir myself from my usual Auckland Uni. Yoga. Society has brought and is constantly bringing establishment ance in one s catatonic state to trot along to a with Mrs L Astley, who or­ us all to — even though words can Chatswood (Sydney) theatre to see not describe these states, we humbly others are bei ganised the address, herself a within the grc this film so much in the news lately. I wish to present to you, our brothers longtime practitioner and fol­ hunting abilit’ never regretted drinking those four and sisters, the techniques by which it cups of weaslepiss coffee. I did regret lower of yoga. is possible to come to an understand­ are well respe that I didn't stay at home and read my Swamiji spoke on the Life Divine; a Taken on the occasion of Swami ing of the higher states of man's polyandry an< life free from pollution and worry; Satchidananda’s last lie address gogether. Spe book on Gurdjieff and listen to the in New Zealand before returning to being, which is your birthright — for Doors. from unhappiness and disappoint­ tne United States where he now hath it not been written “ It is the pregnant won ment, founded on basic precepts of resides, propagating a life of goodness a greater quai For LAST TANGO IN PARIS is the ’ and purity. Tne interest aroused at Way. the Truth, and the Life." „ love, purity, healthfulness and self­ the child is b< most monotonous, the most insipid, Woodstock where he appeared has Our Varsity class (and many others inquiry .... Those people who heard guaranteed a need for a numoer of the meat the | the most nauseous film I've ever seen. and saw Swamiji speak in the quad centres of Integral Yoga throughout throughout Auckland) are always during a spec Which is of course Bertolucci's whole th e U .S .A . recently will remember the living ex­ open to people: do not think that of the child d point; the fHm is about alienation, ample of peace and love this enligh­ 'yoga' is sitting in the lotus or other animal eaten apathy, the loss of all values, the de­ difficult postures — the best asanas tened man radiates, truly a joy to paramatma (supreme soul the thereby enger cadence, the ennui, the anomie the have shared with him a few moments word itself means “ union", so any­ are the simplest ones, for it is here tion between pointJessness and non-direction of of peace, far from the sensual distrac­ thing practising the above is a form of that the body is in complete rest, and child's soul. 1 modern life. Nothing, in essence the mind is free to turn its powers in­ tions around us. “ yoga". name is to de means anything; life is chaos. wards to the movement of breath and His teachings of yoga are not into­ It is the basic core of alI religious connection w directed consciousness within the O.K. All well and good. But this re­ lerant of the attachments of ideas that teachings. Rather than dividing, it life. body. duces the potential viewing audience the individual nature has, rather pro­ brings together the physical, mental Several ban to masochists, morons and perverts. viding the techniques by which that and spiritual aspects of each indi­ We hope our contributions in Crac- 200 persons, For people like me and you (i.e. pes­ individual can discipline and trans- vidual into harmonious balance. It cum will only generate a spirit of common feeli simists) the film is just an extension of cent that attachment (if he sees fit). hel ps one to understand one's own re­ self-inquiry and raise personal ques­ and peaceful everyday life. Bartolucci-would have This implies voluntary preparedness ligion better, but makes no demands tions of mundane/ethnic concern, ac­ ferent groups better made the point by not making and a strength of purpose that allows to change that religion. cording to the individual's own linguistic diffe the film at all. the particular behaviour to fall away The penultimate learning of yoga is realized nature. common all-/ Thus the film is deliberately made without struggle or regret — it comes the learning of the meditative aspects, May we all ever strive towards the Since the 1 light. have been rer to induce snoring, vomiting, stupor. In about only through the fact that the which are difficult and take some driven into th a world where contingency is king, individual has come to a higher or time for a sincere practitioner to mas­ SHANTHI SHANTHI ZIO where any semblence of positivism is by the proces soon swept aside (Thus Paul is shot as Some Ache soon as he shows any kind of life), to adopt a set where sex is about as exciting as a 20th century loaf of stale bread, people are one­ au< into the hinte sible the presi dimensional marionettes in a pallid, insensible dance in a pall-id, insensi­ on Wayne Monday (18) uy J.H.Murray, Paraguay. Ha ble void. Because of this Brando S.M., in the North Shoee Magistrates Indians were never once mutters a coherent word Couit. Because he had “stricken” past incoming sett — his stock line is “ Gnnur plugh the Surfside uallroom in Milford it was police and mi nmmr mnnr"; the girl remains a felt by the learned magistrate that a severi slave-raiding. mindless clockwork body. The music [penalty was in order. The reasoning was Up to the 1 drifts; communication dies; no-one that the group of people there were still hunts were ca cheap labour does anything human. Life is reduced Every so often cases come into the that a lawyer would charge, particularly; of youthful age. Tne puzzle is what were practice was | to animal sex between people without ^courts which are amusingly trivial. By for a first offender. In this instance such unsophisticated ‘surfsiders’ doing up “ By 1958, < identities, fucking to forget is all there >way of example, the neighbourly dispute* Ayres, who had originally stated that hej at the naughty nour of 12.30 am? cion to Paran is left. ’’in which Mr Russell, a 50 year old clothesj “couldn’t oe bothered working” had a Meanwhile, out in the wild west...... Anambai to It lesman was charged with threatening talk with a lawyer while in custody andj A henderson cowboy, Leslie Cunning­ One could go on and talk about the time in histor death, the unfulfilment, the juxtaposi­ ’behaviour in public. An argument over" it was found he was owed an amount ham (17), convicted of causing bodily injury, shot at and hit a 13 year old boy law 'The India tion of past and present, the film Sthe state of his neighbour’s garden that sufficient to get him off the vagrancy ch arge. twice, once with a slug and once with a beings as the within the'film, the overall modd as [had apparently been running, for years national territ< Behaviour in courts is a subject on matchstick. He was fined $120 with $10 achieved by the lighting, the use of -culminated in a showdown 15 yards from] reme Court ol wiiich some may be expected to court costs, it seems Clint Eastwood colour, the sheer actionlessness of the the sidewalk, when Russell allegedly Aijd that hunt _quote cases like the Chicago Seven! In' could have some heavy competition. film. But there is no need, just as ^threatened to knock his neighbour’s children are c ^my opinion though it is advisable to sub­ “One day little boy ulue begins to there is no need for LAST TANGO IN according to t f “Block” off. Legally this constitutes an mit to the particular discipline imposed ('slip and what crawls out would make PARIS. ution of the A ; assault. However the magistrate took one by the courts. An example of som eone1 an ambulance attendant puke” 13 June 1957 What there is need for is films look at the defendant and could be seen] whose overgrown sense of their own im^. (Burroughs). The fact that he had con glorifying man as man. Where some­ of the country to make up his mind on a conviction and' portance earned them a week’s custody?] ifessed to being on drugs became the thing decisive, something meaningful foreign investi 'discharge under s S.4^. before the defend-^ was ironically a girl who was an addict ^! focal point of a case on remand of a happens. Where, for example, the tional roads, t *and was charged with possesion of a Mr Blackwood. He was accused of tres­ Kierkegaardian ethic “ Choose yourself Pant’s lawyer had begun. ery had to be THe importance of using a lawyer unless] prescription drug. On being told by the^ passing in the N.A.C. Building when he at every moment with absolute re­ country exhib \you are somehow competant to defend' magistrate to appear the next week, she] refused to leave. As the police were talk sponsibility before God" is taken as Since 1968 [yourself should be greater stressed to apparently told him what to do with! ing to him he became irate, and hit one the raison d'etre for a film. What we Ache has wor those who are arrested. In the case of a himself as she left the dock. Tne result of] of them. But in reply to the magistrate’s need, Godammit, is a film about the penetration of The courts immediate gratitude for this Question of his being on drugs at the [Mr Ayres (20) found sleeping in Vulcan^! the Ache hunt true Existentialist Hero. fadvice could be considered a “state holiday”, time, Blackwood replied tnat he had 'Lane without sufficient means of lawful try to adapt tc kOn the other end of the scales is the ja ilj® been drinking a lot of coffee and Perhaps then I might stop listening (.support it made the difference between they neither v\ to Jim Morrison singing “ The End." discharge. It is certain] Fsentence sentence for streaking imposed w S S t smoking many cigarettes.... :enden- The authorities sought to control him by integrating him into the offi­ icient B o o k cial hierarchy, and thus the reserva­ ig physi- CULTURE: tion was set up. R e v i e w . . . . 3 from Pereira's first administrative act was jnscious- Progress is often a criminal action. to plunder the goods of his wards to from this sell as tourist souvenirs. The food sent HOUSEHOLD ECOLOGY by Julia i striving "Culture Shock" aims to be a series of articles documenting European contact with less technologically orientated ethnic groups in various to the Aches by the government was percivall and Pixie Burger. Published i, a "back by Ure Smith Pty Ltd. Paperback. parts of the world. diverted and sold by Pereira. vercom- In 1960, Pereira's dismissal was re­ 230 ppi Price $ 1.50. Through several articles it will be shown that the inevitable result has are the commended. The authors of this comprehensive been the reduction of a socially and economically viable cultural group In 1965, Pereira killed an and very practical book convinc­ >ld path to a shattered "minority" of people now occupying a cheap-labour 80-year-old man. ingly explain that ecology begins nding, niche of little to no political status in a European-derived culture. In 1971 he shot and crippled with the individual at home. In another Indian. The police agent hid great detail they show how the ie to you, THE ACHE INDIANS GENOCIDE IN nor enter the bondage of working for in order to avoid involvement. householder can create a well bal­ the prac- PARAGUAY Paraguayan masters, they must steal In January 1972 Pereira raped a anced and ecologically constructive' ou. Un- (Condensed from IWGIA document food from the Paraguayan ranches. 10-year-old girl. home — the home as an organism Soul, de- 11 by Mark Miinzel.) The resultant reprisal of the ranch- Pereira has encouraged reservation that affects other living organisms. ersonality The Ache Indians are groups of owner is to massacre the Ache group. Indians to capture others who are still Ecology is defined as the right mask to wandering hunting Indians living in Manhunts for Aches have increased free. "Many Aches you will catch, a balance between creation and de­ wound- Eastern Paraguay. The traditional in volume and violence since 1968. white man you will be!" struction creating a cycle; a chain hing hunting band is of about 40 to 60 In December 1971 the "abc col­ In June 1962 there were 100 Aches of building up and breaking down or fear, persons, each group having a certain our" newspaper of Ascuncion wrote on the reservation; by July 1968, 68 which forms the wheel of nature d fault territory, the limits of which are of "murders of fathers and mothers as were left. The main reason for this re­ and of life. Man is a part of this bounded by tradition. the only way of seizing Ache chil­ duction of this particular group is continual chain of activity. The hunting grounds are divided ruth as it dren, who are then brought up as ser­ hunger, caused not by the lack, but They give a variety of hints, and practices into sub-zones successively hunted in vants." by the non-distribution of food. methods on how to cut down on rotation in order to permit the re­ tates it In 1972 the same newspaper, In September 1972 pressure by an­ pollution and unnecessary waste; / bringing establishment of the ecological bal­ "They (the Ache) are hunted; they are thropologists resulted in the dismissal the compost heap, using soap in­ ance in one sub-zone whilst the ds can pursued like animals. The parents are of Pereira. Public pressure had some stead of a non-biodegradable de­ humbly others are being hunted. Social grade killed and the children sold . . . and effect; it must be remembered that tergent, saving paper from shopping within the group is determined by mothers there is no family of which a child Pereim had "solved" the Ache prob­ and recycling etc. etc. The useful hunting ability.Women in the group t which it has not been murdered." The price of lem in a large area by manhunts, had information, for leading a less ex­ Jerstand- are well respected; monogamy, an Ache child is falling, due to the prevented the Reservation from be­ pensive and wasteful life, and taking polyandry and polygamy exist n's great supply; an Ache girl of five coming too large, and was not be­ on a greater responsibility as an in­ it — for gogether. Special care is devoted to years old is worth $5. It appears the coming prejudicial to the final goal of dividual, is exhaustive and intellig­ the pregnant women, who have a right to Native Affairs Department is aware of eliminating the "problem" as quickly ently compiled. There are chapters n a greater quantity of meat. The soul of this traffic, but does nothing. and as quietly as possible. His author­ like "The Mother as Environment" the child is believed to be formed by The following incident is one of ity had by now been undermined to "Natural Aids for Facial Skin" and iy others the meat the pregnant mother eats many that have been documented the extent that soldiers were required "Safe guarding the Future: A Rever- vays during a special ceremony; the name since 1968. on the reservation, and that he was ance for Life". The advice in the that of the child denotes the species of "This raid was organized towards also getting too old. Public attention book is specific, constructive and r other animal eaten during this ceremony the end of August 1971, by Pavini's was averted by his dismissal. inspiring. The authors argue that the asanas thereby engendering a mystical rela­ foreman Marcial Enciso, who con­ However, manhunts against the world's ecological balance is so ; here tion between the animal and the tracted for the purpose some Ache are still carried out and Ache precariously geared towards waste rest, and child's soul. To change an Ache's specialists in killing Aches, paying slaves still exist throughout Paraguay. and destruction that we have less wers in- name is to deprive the soul with its them with money from the funds of On 10th September 1972 an Ache than 30 years left in which to clean eath and connection with nature and its after­ Estancia...... The killing...... was car­ family was found dead 8 hours' walk up the world. i the life. ried out with machette knives, as from the Reservation. Tlieir message is serious and Several bands totalling more than * proudly described by the killers them­ There were many Manual de Jesus compelling. And everyone, not just in Crac- 200 persons, form a group united by selves. There were between 1 2 and Pereira's, and the Paraguayan Native multi-national corporations need to it of common feeling, linguistic uniformity 20 killed, some'of them most proba­ Affairs Department considers the pol­ adhere to nature's laws. I ques- and peaceful relations. Between dif- bly mothers of kidnapped children. At icy which it applies to the Ache as of I quote: "Whether he owns a :ern, ac- ierent groups there exist cultural and least five small children were cap­ "experimental character" for the home or rents an apartment, if each /n linguistic differences, so that the tured "alive." elaboration of a "general plan to be person's cycles are balanced and common all-Ache feeling is weak. The Department of Native Affairs applied to other tribes." beneficial, then all of us benefit Since the 16th century the Ache remained inactive; the paper La The "final solution" for the from each other's cycles in multiple have been reduced in numbers and Tribuna, 30.6.1972: "The image of Paraguayan Indians can only be av­ form. Homes, garden, community, driven into the Paraguayan hinterland this country abroad will deteriorate erted through international protest. countryside — the cycle of influ­ by the process of colonization. when these facts become known, as ence grows gradually wider and Some Aches have been persuaded they certainly will be." The course of events described wider. Be it in planting a flower or to adopt a settled life and in the early The officially recommended solu­ above has historical parallels with the in the letter of protest against a 20th century were paid to build roads tion of this 'problem' does not include events that occurred in the early col­ belching.factory stack, or in the re­ into the hinterland, thus making pos­ the limitation of the massacres by onization of New Zealand, Australia fusal to buy an insecticide that is sible the present development of means of legal pressure, but by the and Tasmania; the prevent events in harmful to the song birds, the ulti­ Murray, Paraguay. Having built the roads the installation of a "reservation" to South Africa stem from a similar his­ mate |Xiwer does lie in the hands trates Indians were taken as slaves by the which the Aches who are a "prob­ tory, and there will be similar occurr­ of the individual. n” ^ast incoming settlers, the Paraguayan lem" may be deported. ences within the next ten years in the "Which is why, in the final d it was police and military being party to this The foundation of the reservation now independent Papua/New Guinea. analysis, we must all play a part in ia t a sevei slave-raiding. occurred in 1959 when a well-known This article was written by Survival initiating change and restoring the n in g was Up to the 1950's systematic man­ Ache-hunter, Manuel de Jesus Pereira, International, an international organi­ ecological balance." vere still hunts were carried out to provide connived to avoid legal prosecution zation whose aims are to arouse pub­ This is a book that should be cheap labour for the Europeans. This m a t were, by claiming that the Indian slaves on lic opinion to the plight of indigenous read by at least one person from if d oin g up practice was partially ended in 1958. his farm had sought his protection be­ people. We are at present based in each household. I would like to see n? "By 1958, our people, from Asun­ cause they loved him. His 'protection' New Zealand, on the Auckland Uni­ it in secondary schools as a book !St., cion to Paranua-mbu, and from had been sought because he was in­ versity campus, and any help will be to discuss and chew*over. Our nning- Anambai to Itapua, knew for the first fertile, which meant more tranquillity appreciated. Contact S.I.N.Z., C/- young generation needs to be super jo d ily time in history that in the eyes of the with him for the Indian women than Studass, Auckland University. aware of our world's ecological r o ld hoy' law 'The Indians are as much human with the other slave owners. problems. Ultimately it is upt the ; w ith a beings as the other inhabitants of the individual, you and me. with $10 national territory' (Circular of the Sup­ BOB FINDLAY. Nicholas Henry Spill rood reme Court of Justice 9 Sept. 1957). Aqd that hunting and selling of Indian tio n . children are crimes to be punfshed is to m ake according to the penal code." (Resol­ ution of the Ministry of the Interior, 13 June 1957.* If the remotest parts of the country were to be opened to foreign investment and to interna­ tional roads, the anachronism of slav­ ery had to be eliminated to make the country exhibitable to foreign eyes. Since 1968 the situation of the Ache has worsened. Commercial penetration of the forest is destroying the Ache hunting grounds. The Ache C FmM EnurpriM*. Inc, Ifll try to adapt to the new situation: if they neither wish to starve to death, MATT HATTOR. RELATIVELY HfS cell STRUCTURE IS S\\LPMANNĒREP SUFFICIENTLY JUGGLEPgY XPRES&IVE TtNPEMOES), LONG HOURS UNP6R lEAKY I a p p r e n t i c e n u c l e a r a n - RAPATlON TO GIVE HIM THE n ih il a t o r c o m e s t o t h e POWER OF ATOMIC FANTASY! REALIZATION. THAT KEEPING THIS. COUPlEP WITH A SiT ONE'S FINGER ON THE o f increpi&ly p la s t ic sur­ " P E A T H O P e v e r y t h i n g " g e r y , l e a p s t o a s o l e m n BUTTON CAN GET TO BE PECISION! f A PRAG! I sha ll BECOME Y* I feel J A CREATURE 1 SOME HOW,,, O P T h e UNFULFil l EP: RlPlCULOUS!

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