U.S. opposition

Press, 7 December 1985, Page 18

U.S. opposition

Sir, — If the meek are going to inherit the Earth they will have to look sharp before the Pentagon proliferates once too often or one of their übiquitous military satellites hallucinates, putting sufficient nuclear hardware into irretrievable trajectory to destroy all life on Earth several hundred times over. For “World Demolition Inc.,” the verb “to reduce” has nasty humanitarian overtones capable of pushing the international community to the very brink of a diabolical situation called “peace.” Diehard Kiwi reactionaries, for ever misrepresenting A.N.Z.U.S., should check out a recent American poll that claims over 70 per cent of its citizens are against nuclear proliferation. This is approximately 10 per cent more against than in New Zealand! But what care the punitive Pentagon or its Kiwi puppets for a democratic two-thirds majority opinion? It is these inflexible persons who, while vehemently criticising Russia and spurning the whopping reduction offer of 50 per cent off nuclear terror, are short-changing the meek. — Yours, etc., ARTHUR MAY. December 5, 1985.