Letters threaten death
Letters with death threats have been posted to two correspondents who have written to “The Press” on the Socialist Unity Party issue and another Russian subject. One note, roughly typed in capital letters and posted in central Christchurch late on Sunday evening, said: “Your biggest mistake, commie, was writing to the ‘Letters to The Editor’ with subversive propaganda because now you are going to die.” The other note said merely: “You are dead, commie.” Both notes were signed with the letters P.N.Z.O. The correspondents who received them said last evening that they did not intend to complain to the police. One of the correspondents threatened said in a letter to the editor: “Perhaps the S.I.S. and the Prime Minister should spare a moment from their persecution of the Left, and take a glance at the lunatic fringe on the Right.”
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Press, 27 March 1980, Page 6
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