Salient. Victoria University Students' Newspaper. Volume Number 39, Issue 6. April 5 [1976]
Forum Sidetracked
Forum Sidetracked
Unfortunately Dave's speech served to spark off an ideological debate over the relative evils of, yes you guessed it, Soviet and American imperialism. The forum soon degenerated to various speakers from the floor, often in audibly or worse, boringly, haranging one another. It was left to Henry Issacs to rescue the forum from complete disintegration by pointing out that the struggle in South Africa was inextricably woven with the economic interests of the imperialist powers and their subsequent desire to preserve those interests in the maintenance of the Status Quo.
If we wished to avoid such interference, symbolised by Rockefeller, then New Zealanders must protest against this encroachment by American interests.