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Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Volume 31, Number 13 June 18, 1968

Out Side Left

page 12

Out Side Left

Che Lives. According to a Reuters despatch from La Paz, Bolivia, Che Guevard "has become known in parts of Bolivia as St. Ernesto of Higuerds".

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"Ben Cat, South Vietnam, March 20 (Reuters). One dead Viet Cong is worth three days of sunbathing at the seashore for some American soldiers hunting guerillas around Saigon, according to US infantrymen here. "They said soldiers who kill one or more Viet Cong in operation 'We Will Win' are rewarded with three days at one of three US rest and recreation centres on the South Vietnamese coast."

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Another shipwreck . . . Won't these sailors ever learn every time one of them dies it stops five tourists coming to New Zealand?

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Heard about all the people who signed National Club's application for re-affiliation with Stud. Ass.? No, not Owen Gager. But there was Les Slater, an old Committee on Vietnam hand and several Labour Party stalwarts.

By the way, did you know that Owen is scared to sign Stud. Ass. cheques for Labour Club's Cappicade takings for fear Labour Club won't accept them with his signature?

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And on the subject of politics, Democratic Labour Party chairman Simon Guthrie says his party will endorse John Hales for the Hurt by-election.

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Did you hear about the EU prayer bulletin which complained there was too little prayer in EU and would members pray about this?

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When is a Student Leadership Conference not a Student Leadership Conference? Well, there was one, or rather there wasn't (or not what NZUSA President McGrath said was one) on Queen's Birthday weekend, when a lot of people who thought they were student leaders decided they weren't (though Salient—in its last issue—said they were). Or were they? Not to confuse people too much wouldn't it be a step toward de-bureaucratising student politics if exec. dropped this Outward Bound mystique of leadership? Honestly, when did Doug White last lead you? (And is it a bad thing that he didn't — I mean, shouldn't he Represent you?)

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Arab proverb of the week: When the desert tents grow purple in the sunset, Ted Kennedy dreams of scimitars.