Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Student's Newspaper. Volume 31, Number 4. March 26 1968
Power game
Power game
In view of the dramatic changes in the frontal area over the last months, and more especially over the last days, it now seems extremely likely that President Johnson will arrive in Wellington next week to reassure his allies. This would possibly help him to take the limelight temporarily from Senators McCarthy and Kennedy, and would certainly be consistent with the quite extraordinary security arrangements even now in force at Parliament House more than a week before the SEATO conference is due to begin. It is already floodlit at night and constantly patrolled.
Whether he comes or not the atmosphere will be excited. There is a very real threat of violence next Tuesday when an anti-SEATO rally is planned at Parliament House, to be followed by a march to the Town Hall.