Anti-nuclear bill

Press, 7 December 1985, Page 18

Anti-nuclear bill

Sir,—Peter Stocker (“The Press,” November 30) takes me to task for accusing Mr Lange of ostrich-like behaviour concerning nuclear matters. If he would read my letter again, as I have, he would perhaps concede that my comment was in the nature of a query. I said, “Is Mr Lange wanting to be an ostrich-like hero?” — Yours, etc., HILARY ECCLES. December 3, 1985.

Sir,—lt is time our political leaders started emulating our sportsmen and gave them “a taste of Kiwi.” I refer to the bullying threats emanating from the Reagan Administration’s spokesmen, the Pentagon brasshats, in fact the whole armaments Mafia and their attendant sycophant Australian yap-dog politicians, who irritatingly fulminate against our Government’s anti-nuclear warship legislation. Instead of trotting off to Washington and Canberra to placate these people by attempting to justify the legislation, the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister should stay in Wellington to get on with the job of passing the legislation which the New Zealand people elected them and expect them to do. If the Reagan Administration sees the legislation as ending A.N.Z.U.S., let us sieze this golden opportunity to disentangle ourselves from a treaty which enmeshes us in the United States’ global network of aggressive military bases designed for war against the Soviet Union. — Yours, etc., M. CREEL. December 5, 1985.