★ ★ * ALTERNATIVE M U SIC RADIO B 1404 RADIO B THE BUZZ IN CAMPUS RADIO AUCKLAND Vol 56, issue 13 ® Huntly 865423 - Taihape 865423 - Oamaru 865423 - McMurdo Sound 865423 Ex 153 Tuesday, June 22, 1982 STOP PRESS ELECTION LATEST KJ m ' Wf j P- ■ * Vs * " - > , ' • GEANNE KALL1S outside Auckland's Medical School. Her undercover investigation revealed thousands of teddy bears go to their deaths, some after being suffocated by duvets, pillows and their owners’ embraces. Regular Features A rts......................................16 ANIMAL HORROR Letters....................................4 News................................ 3, 6 HOUSE EXPLODED Unclassifieds.......................19 pii'i i".. It was Julius Caesar who Jill Carhart, of Save Animals first remarked upon our from Experiments, managed this by saying she was doing an ludicrous love of animals. LLB paper on the legal aspects He could not quite believe of using animals in medical that the Anglo Saxons experiments. This was true. But Chateau kept their rabbits, cats, the paper was never written. dogs, piranhas and Instead she gave her story to Bursary ’82 hamsters as pets rather ‘T r u th '. Miss Carhart struggled for than food. some time to get her Our pets are companions, information. ‘For two months cuddles and bedwarmers. As they gave me nothing but Sparkling such they have priority over the gradually I gained their hi-fi deck in the event of a fire. confidence and dropped the white But this worship carries its own right names.’ When her notes irony. Fido claims the best view were complete ‘none of the of the television and daily walks papers but Truth would touch slime while we exploit thousands of i t . ’ his fellows for mink coats, A good sense of proportion lipstick, hamburgers, shampoo rather than fear probably led to this rejection. In spite of front CHarfeaM A waste of time, have [B m nsar~ y 1982 you said yes yet? Most of us ignore the m orality page precedence and a full page of the issue. Antivivisectionists - spread within ‘Truth’ exposing some 2000 people in New ‘Animal Horror House’, public Zealand - voice objections and reaction amounted to two letters once a year march for their to the Medical faculty in convictions. Very occasionally Auckland. Of all the ways in one of them has the courage to which animals are used surely Three terms of poverty work her way into medical medical research is the most legitimate. laboratories. Continued P3 Turdwurds p % n o w $io billion c l o se s june 21 ISSUE 13 CRACCUM VOL 56 1982 Craccum June 22 1982 • 1 Editorial Contents Features Animal Horror House Exploded................. Cover Jeanne W alker Aboriginal land......................................................7 As the Argentine government topples and Britain retires from the Maureen Watson interviewed by David Faulls Malvinas for a self-indulgent summer the world no longer has an excuse to ignore the slaughter of the 9,000 Lebanese and Palestinian civilians. W ith its Racism/Justice......................................................8 southern borders secured by US and NZ troops, Israel is forcing the Campbell Duignan destruction of the Lebanese nation and the remaining resistance of the Palestinian people in the North. Gay Pride Week Supplement................................9 Undoubtedly SRC w ill be discussing this on Thursday. The invasion of Lebanon should not be seen as an isolated event. This letter ‘The Blond Angel’...............................................13 backgrounds the complicated Middle East situation and is intended as a Amnesty International complement to points of views provided by recent Palestinian and Israeli visitors to campus. Unions and Students...........................................14 I have listened with much interest in recent The assension to power of the Begin M artha Coleman interviewed by Roger Tobin talks on the Palestinian problem by Mrs government meant the end of the ‘Jordanian Redgrave, Mr Ali KaSak, and an Israeli option’, since he openly advocated the student. As I feel that some aspects of the ultimate incorporation of the Occupied Damn the Dam....................................................15 problem have not been discussed by any of territories within the State of Israel.’ Barry Weeber these speakers, I include some clippings from A Palestinian (who considers himself to be a a recent article in ‘Le Monde’ and a few moderate) comments: quotations from Martin Buber’s ‘Reden uber ‘The P.L.O. subjects to intellectual (and das Judentum’, for your information. sometimes physical) terrorism which makes it The credits have been accused of being cute! W ell, this week’s credits (‘Le Monde’ 3.4.1982) impossible for us to stay neutral. On the other are mean; real mean. So mean in fact that if you mess with them, they’ll General Benjamin Ben Eliezor, until side the Israeli government confronts us with mess with you. What shit. This whole thing is crap, isn’t it. I ’m not 1.11.1981 military governor of the West Bank ‘State Terrorism’ which frequently takes the fooling anyone. (interview published in ‘Newsweek’): form of a bloody repression - thus playing the Helpers and things this week were Vicki Harraway, Jeanne Walker ‘The P.L.O has not been the instigator of the game of the P.L.O.! In spite of this there are recent troubles in the West Bank and Ghaza still many Palestinians like me who would like (spelt correctly at last), Bruce Cronin (yet again), sundry student politicos Strip: It is the installation by the Israeli to begin a dialogue with the occupant, if only who got carried away with their own little thrills, and Daryl Wilson who government of a so-called ‘Civil to make our life more bearable.... But there is did the centre pages (who else). If anyone reads these, please tell me. I feel administration’ - widely believed to be the no place for moderates as long as we have to like an idiot. I am an idiot mumble mumble (piteous whimperings first step toward assimilation - which has confront men like Mr Begin and General followed by massive personality disintegration). triggered off the riots and violent Shimon.’ demonstrations. ’ A friend of Karim Khalif, major of Shimon Peres, Chairman of the Labour Ramallah (recently sacked by the Israeli ISSUE 13 CRACCUM VOL 56 1982 f Party: authorities): ‘The present policy of the Israeli government ‘Those who support the P.L.O do not CRACCUM is registered with the Post Office Editor........................................................David Faulls throws the Arab population into the arms of necessarily agree with everything that as a newspaper. It is published by the Craccum Technical Editor...............William Mcllhagga the P.L.O. - and has created a unanimity of organisation does or stands for. But we have Administration Board for the Auckland Advertising M anager.............................Jason Kemp opinion among the Palestinians which never no choice... We are not ‘dangerous University Students' Association, and printed Assistant Editors..........IS ........Jenny Renals existed before. revolutionaries’ as Mr Begin would make the by Wanganui Newspapers Ltd. Opinions .......................................................Paul Grinder Since they could not negotiate an world believe. Bassam Chakaa (recently expressed herein are not necessarily anyone's. Typesetters................... Barbara Amos agreement with the Egyptians on Palestinian sacked by the Israeli authorities) is a scion of including the Editorial Staff, and in no way ................................................... Raewyn Green autonomy, the Israeli’s decided to install a one of the oldest land-owning families of represent the official policy (should there be Photographer........... .......................Leo Jew regime exclusively tailored to fit their needs - Nablus. Karim Khalaf was a ‘moderate’ in the any) of the Association. hoping that they would find some eyes of the Israelis when he was elected in Palestinians willing to collaborate. In the 1972.’ rural parts of the West Bank (where 70% of General Raphael Vardi, until recently ‘Co­ the population lives) semi-feudal structures ordinator’ of the Israeli administration in the still subsist: The so-called mukhtars (village Occupied territories: chiefs) have been - since time immemorial - the ‘Sacking the majors and appointing Israeli intermediaries between the successive military officers in their place doesn’t seem to colonial governments (Ottoman, British, make sense if we really intend to'give the Jordanian) and the rural population. The Arab population the chance to run their own Jordanian government still pays the salaries affairs under an autonomy scheme. We are of all the village chiefs appointed before 1967. creating a situation which will very soon make (Since 1978 Jordania and the P.L.O. have it impossible to find any moderates to talk to. ’ constituted a mixed Commission which Martin Buber, in a speech to German distributes most of the financial aid provided Jewish Students, May 1918 (‘The Holy Path’ by the Arab governments for the running and in ‘Reden uber das Judentum’, Berlin 1932, maintenance of the municipal services in the reprinted in a slightly different version in West Bank and Ghaza Strip). On 9 March ‘Israel and the World,’ N.Y. 1964): 1982, the Jordanian government announced ‘Both Nationalism and Socialism are that members of the so-called ‘Village foreign to the Jewish way of life. Nationalism, Leagues’ set up by the Israeli authorities resulting in a contest for political and military would be treated as traitors and would have to power, is utterly un-Jewish: all Jews who face the death penalty if they would set foot worship Nationalism and obey its on Jordanian territory. (Most West Bank commandments are Jews only in name - no Palestinians frequently cross the Jordan matter how proudly they display the Symbol River to visit their relatives living in of Zion on their coats! Jordania). Not those who tell us that we have to serve Immediately after the 1967 Israeli our God in Exile are prostituting our Jewish occupation, the majority of the West Bank heritage, but you, who are always ready to Palestinians were willing to seek a ‘modus worship any Idol, as long as it stands for ‘the vivendi’ with the occupant.