Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Student's Newspaper. Volume 31, Number 9. May 21 1968

Out Side Left

Out Side Left

Quote from NZBC interview on U.S.-North Vietnam talks in Paris: "Yes, I think the talks will be successful but it will be a long road to hoe."

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Alister Taylor's in the money again, even after his blast-off against all his friends in the COV last Salient. A cool $4000 was left over after the Peace, Power and Politics conference and the question is whom the money belongs to. Alister doesn't think the money really belongs to the COV—and he was, you remember, not just organiser, but chairman of the PPP conference. So perhaps attacking the COV could have been a tactical move ... perhaps we need another anti-war organisation with, say, $4000 in its kitty.

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This column seems to be emanating too many innuendoes lately. Thai's what we thought, anyway, when we saw the Pol. Sci. Society more-in-sorrow-than-anger rebuttal of our libellous scandalmongering. Who said all this, we thought—surely not us? And we checked back and, sure enough, we hadn't We didn't say there was only one brand of wine at Pol. Sci. Soc's notorious wine and cheese evening. We didn't accuse Pol. Sci. Soc. of partiality. We didn't say the function had made a profit The Pol. Sci. Soc. just read all this into our Column—guilty conscience, perhaps?

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New issue of the Labour monthly New Zealand Stateman shows the paper going downhill—only four pictures of Kirk this week, a grave under-fulfilment of the Paper's Norm.

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Whatever is happening to Forum now? First Tuesday, then Wednesday, then back to Tuesday again. It's one way to ensure a strictly random collection of speakers, I suppose.