N.Z. defence decision needed
PA Wanganui The Government should make a clear choice on New Zealand’s defence arrangements because its defence policy was inconsistent, said the leader of the Democratic Party, Mr Bruce Beetham. “The time has come for David Lange to stop playing political poker with New Zealand’s defence and face the reality that what the Government wants a fun-
damental contradiction in terms,” Mr Beetham said. "A nuclear-free New Zealand within AJLZ.U.S. is an inconsistent and unobtainable combination which no Government could deliver.” Mr Beetham said the options were clear and threefold: ® Either stay in the A.NJZ.UK arrangement which would lock New Zealand automatically into the nuclear super-power confrontation.
• Become a nuclear-free but defenceless non-aligned country inviting ultimate foreign domination. • Opt as an alternative to inevitable nuclear involvement, for a policy of positive or armed neutrality to make any invasion or occupation of. New Zealand by a potential enemy with enormously long supply lines a prohibitively expensive and therefore virtually (.Impossible
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