A.N.Z.U.S. pact
Sir, — With misguided zeal, T. R. Loudon (May 14) persists in advocating a policy that has been demonstrated to be entirely ineffectual. President Carter’s 1980 grain embargo ended in total fiasco and cost him the United States grain farmers’ votes. The embargo damaged them more than it did the Soviet Union. President Reagan applied sanctions to the supply of gas-pumping equipment to the Siberian gas pipeline, which was still finished six months ahead of schedule. The Western capitalist world needs trade with the Soviet Union, the most stable, capacious and expanding market in the world today. T. R. Loudon seems obsessed by New Zealanders’ traditional, most endemic xenophobic complaint — Russophobia, which has misled this country’s policies into so much folly, of which the A.N.Z.U.S. pact is but one. — Yours, etc., M. CREEL. May 15, 1984.
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