Andrei Sakharov
Sir, — It is ironical that letters in your correspondence column; 1 today give the impression that Andrei Sakharov’s fate could not happen to anyone in New Zealand, when in the same issue of “The Press” our Prime Minister continues his hunt of one of New Zealand’s foremost social scientists: Dr W. B. Sutch. Dr Sutch was retired prematurely, persecuted by the secret police and the gutter press, acquitted by a jury unanimously, and died, still persecuted by the powers that be. Yes; all this happened in our own New Zealand, I am sorry to say. It would be good if the same New Zealanders who are taking up
Andrei Sakharov’s cause, took up the cause of Dr Sutch. But then, perhaps, in spite of our vaunted freedoms, it is safer (and easier) to fie concerned publicly with civil liberties abroad than here in New Zealand, — Yours, etc., W. ROSENBERG, February 2, 1980,
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