National officers John Blincoe (president) and Don Carson (International Vice-president) came under fire at the NZUSA National Executive, held last weekend at Victoria.

The attack against Don Carson was expected, following debates on most campuses (Canterbury passing a motion of no-confidence in him) over his voting performace at the Asian Students' Association conference in Thailand.

It was headed by our own president Gyles Beckford, who criticised Don's irresponsibility in going into a debate on the Israeli expulsion with very little factual material on the National Union of Israeli Students.

Don Leonardo (Canterbury) also criticised Don for his performance in the Canterbury debate. He said his arrogant manner was a big factor in the motion of no-confidence being passed.

The attack on John Blincoe was perhaps more trivial, but certainly just as fierce. It concerned the meeting's minutes (12 pages long) which had only reached constituent presidents two days before the National Executive meeting;

The reason for this delay, according to Executive secretary, Dianne McDonald, was the number of changes that John Blincoe insisted on making to successive draft copies.

Gyles Beckford was once again in the thick of it, complaining that presidents could not be expected to be familiar with reports and minutes if they reached them at such a late date. NZUSA accountant Peter McLeod agreed with these sentiments and commented that the president should not spend all his time in meaningless activities such as correcting minutes.

The other constituent presidents backed up these comments, and a motion was eventuallly passed to cut (in future) the minutes down to the barest essentials.