peace researcher vol1 issue24 sept 1989

8/9/2019 Peace Researcher Vol1 Issue24 Sept 1989

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DO THEY CNFIRM E ABS?(ee page 2)

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STATE COMLAINT LS WITH OMSMAN

by Bob Leonard

On 3 October988 Cizes for e Demlitzaon of Hrewood fled complait with theOce o f e Ombudsman coceg the ghts of Uited Sttes Air Foe Strlifters though

Christchuh teatio Aior O Amerc idependece dy, he 4 of Jy 989, M NadjTollemche Seior Ombudsma concluded her invesigation by wriig to us tht our complai

could ot be sustaied. She hd coductd a detiled ivestigatio but we woud o be llowed o

ow he reons for her decisio because tey wee wpped i secrecy

The gist of our compli was a folows:

1. Because te Chanel Figh ht pass trough Chstchurch seve Smiliary/iteligence insatios i saia hat are ureled to Atrctic research teyshould o be give blaket diplomtic clernce for lndig i New Zaand;

2. The S Air Foce Starlie us for e Chel igh coered by eforced'neither corm or dey ucle secrecy policy ad hus cold cy ucler weapos

ito NZ wiou e owledge of our goveme

3 The Chanel Flights violte Cluse 03) of he Nucler Free Zoe w d shoud ceseimmediately

We sked the Ombudsm to recommed to e execuive tht a coninug violon of our

uclearfree lw ws beig commied by the Strlifer crews. Our submission described the bsis for

our complnt i some deal ad icluded si achmen with ddiol informo d dt Wihiwo weeks we ceived a reply fom seior investigatig ocer eplning ht "The ncto of he

Ombudsmn is to investigte complaints relag to matters of admiistion coceg ceraGoveent Deprmen cerai Stte Owned-Eterises sutoy bords ad locl bodies Thus eOmbudsmn a ocer of Prlamet hs o uthoty over decisios of e Cbinet Misters of e

Crow or e legislre itse

So the decisio of te Pme Mister to gt lake clearce for he Starlifer ighs could not

be ivesigted bu is nevetheless open to her [rs Tollemche to invesgte the adequcy ndcoectess of te advice d recommedio of the Misry of Foreig Affir o which hat decisio was based

During he course of e ivesigto goveet reorgaizatio changed he elevt ministry

fom Foreig n Aairs to tea Relio nd Trade (MERT) MERTs dvice he Prime Ministerthus foed he basis for his decisio to grt ble clerace for Strlifter ights for he peod Jue988 o 31 May 989 ha adice wa backed by a repot and copies of relevt submissios whichMrs Tollemche obtaied fom e Secreay for ER

hr leter CDH M Toemche sid er a iitial study of e Ministry rpo to ePme Minister i was appet to me he mers cavssed i i were of considerble polic

sesitivity Nevehele i order sify myelf a to the adequacy nd cocess of the dviceprovidedto the Pime Miister i ccordce wi s.l O 1) of e 987 Act I considred it wod beppropte for n ispecio of he relea fles ideed i the iistrys report also be cried


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Un ading e les e Ombudsmn" fd e opion at e Minisry had dischrged itsduty in respect of te advice d infoon enderd e Prme Mnster I am however ble todisclose my asons for view for e eason wch oow

Alough he Ombudsman mut kep secret y inonion t has been reviewed durng aninvesigaon it is legal (under te Ombdsm Act) nd noal to vel at least some grounds for adecision However in tis case no gounds no inoton no noing Te mer of Sarlierwas udged to be one at might pdice e secy dence or inteional laons of New

Zalnd

Although te outcome of this compln gt te Staiers is most disppoinng, te decisionis informave, nevereless We can cncvey sk: Could he decision ve gone any oer way

It is no surse tat te mater is policy seitive Consider e implicaions if M Toemache hdsustined or compla That would have own nt quesion he entire pess of Prme Mnistelreview of foreign sp and aircra under e Nucler Fr A - polical bombshell for sure.

Cold she have given s ny grods fr her decsin And what might o grounds b There

re several possiblites

What if e US miitr cly tls e Pme Misr in he umost coden at e

Staliers do not cary any nuear weapons? In oer words maybe ey bah their own neierconrm nor deny policy for he sake of eepng e hel igts separte m te nucler shipscontroversy Such policy woud net b goveens becse neiter wan jeoprdizeOraon Deep reee by strring up te Stfer issue And tere is pcdet altogh it wssupposed to remain secret e Canadian media rceny repored ht e US Navy acay strippedte nuear waeds o ter ships wich were mking reciprocl port visits wit e Soviets. Te

Soviets did te same Longstanding US pocy is t neier conrm nor deny presence ofnclerwrheds aboard specifc wahips nd Washingon has steadfsly resed to provide even iedcontries notably New Zaland wit te kind of ssrnces pprently given Mosw ('Globe ndMi', Oawa Cand, poed in Te Press 24 June 98, p

Oe r possible gronds come to mind. Could Mrs Tolemche hve vealed at e Ministry

dvice is simply based on ust of te Amercns not to put nuear wepons in Saliers? Tt hardyconstiutes dischrge of i dty to infom he Pme Minister on e basis of substnce Te reporsubmissions and les viewed by Mrs Tolemache wod hrdy hve monted a simple satement

of 'st'

Cold she hve rvealed tht he Miisry mde n ned jdgmet ht e lkehood onclear wean being cred on te Saier is gven ei ps1ed ole ad destinations? Yeshe pobbly could have Afer al tt ha en reson given by Mr Lnge in respone qustion

abot te Starlier clernce. fct t is very cs h the Ombdsman chose to remain sent whilete Prme Mnster has ctly given sev resos or hs grng o blnket clearane for eStarliers His reasons hd litle sbstance nd wer qickly ubbished by e ace movement Te

Ombdsman hs now effecvely bbshed em to by filng cite hem.

Of te seve options discssed he foregog, e ony one t seems to have coniderbepolitcl sensivity is tt e US milit reves he ear stts of te Strers to e NZgoveent Te political conseqens of reveing sch ar1gement wold immense We haveconclded, for e moment ht is ve likely he sittion - nd explans Mrs Tollemaches inability todefend her decision It l seems to boil down prejdicing 'nteaon relons Our 'nuclear fre'

govent ppe to have wrppd own shrod of seccy arond te Stirs and n doing so iths plced relo wih the US goveet v e teress of New Zalanders

The Sifr crgo plnes connue y togh massive loophole in New Zealnd's so-called

ncler fre e policy and law Ol silence now sdly incuding te Oi of e Ombudsmn, cannothide tht loophole n peceme tere is ve tle lielihood t a Stlier would carr a nuclearweapon into or trogh New Zland Bt wht but a crsis siation or change in e defencereadiness of US forces nknown to our govement

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4 T AT HAV CT OCK

Routie observaons of the weekly Saifter tansit hrough tchurch Airpo on h wayfom Nuungar to th USA have revealed an inteesng procedure by th Amecan crew. Having senit ony once, we are not u just how common it s

On he mong of depare (nomally a Satrday for the Unted States h crew works wi haeroplae to ppare it for takeo On one Saturday recnly on of th crw was seen on a hatctoward h rear of th port wheel fender on he Starfte Wrapped packages we then placed insid ecomparen and he hatc was hut and curd

Upon compleon of this sueptious stowing operaion e crwman stepd down from hladder and then he and a collagu looked arond ara a bit guiltily apparently s if anyone wawatchng Someon was of couse and the Amrcans noticd e inrepid oberve at th fence TStarlifter crew ooked slightly died at having bn sen doing whavr ey wre doing, but heny relaxed (not knowing jut whom hy w deang wih) and gave a harty wav A littl latranor crw mmr appard with a cama d wih a tlphoto lens and pdd to tak omepi of h pie at h fn

We'll let hs lil repo stand for now as smply an interesng fooot to h many aviiethat go on at Dep Freeze if one cares to go e and watch W wonder jut wat got towd in tatecrt locker, and for what puos Th four cas of Nw Zaland ber that w loaded presumabl

to elp pass h ours in ight mor pleasanly wr drven to he plan in two batc (fom twodifferent beweris?) before placement in crew compartmn

HAWOOD TA AA A COMT UCC

Wer delghted to anounce hat he Harwood Tral Appal was 100% uccsl Peoprponded wi uch generosity hat over $8 wa raid wch was enough to pay e lawyr bill ofthe two dfends (Muay Horon ad Warrn Tomson) who had legal rprsenaon

A completly unxpctd $400 windfa in ape of a dibursement ofal prot from teCoopeav Bookshop Soty (which was wound up man that he ndividual $100 nes could alo bereimbursed nded r wa nough left over follow up Ha Evisons uggestion to buy OwenWlkes a new pair of shos

So thank you evrydy your uppo as ovwhd membrs of h Ani-BaCampaig in Chischuch.

XOV OADD ON KHCU AT AOT

by Bob Leonad

On h ateoon of Tuesday th 6h of Decmbr last year one of our quen obserrs at thairpor noticd an C-130 Herculs being loaded wi eplosiv It was parked on he far side of eaior in he vicnity of essons Road and Pond Road, wl away from the teminal area. Theexplosives cleary labled a suc, wr being trsferrd to h plane om evral larg tck

Peac Rsarcher wrote a lter Mr HG McCa e arpo general manager foroprations askng for information aut h event W asked about he knds and amount of explosiveinvolved heir origin and destnaon ad heir laon to activii of Operaion Deep Freeze and/or heUS Air Forc Military Aii Command

On h 6t of March we recived a shor acknowldgment of our nquiry and a satmnt fomMr McCaol hat h wa invesigating e mar ad would write again wih he results W hardnoing utl a phone call in August gave u a quick swer to ourquesons a apology for h

dlay Mr McCarol aid the explosivs wre AT botts beng loaded for tans AntarcticaJATO (et Aisted Tak Off uns a ued to gv xtra hrt to get h ski-Heule off th ice EtraJATO bottl wre needd in Decembr becaus of a heavy workload ad exa ghts The bot areonidrd to hazardou xploiv and psumably are andled nder precrbed afety rgulatonsEplosives are not normally trand by air becaue of t dager ofaccident :


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Explosies e usd mes in rather lae qu in ntarca b the S Atarc ReshProge We ve copies of coresdence om Jnuary 1986 lang to appva to load 576toes of lass explosies on board the MV ewave at Lyelton. Appval had to ven bythe Lytlton Haur Board d by Depatme o f Labou he Harur Board place 18 coditionso the operatio includig sct limiaions on who ws lowed to be involved in he loading hecircmsces of e loadig, the avilabiiy of e ghting equipment 'at he ady', d the coseinvolvemet of the Senior Inspector of Explosives The 4 condions imposed by e LabourDeparen were similar

We wonder if such stc sfety procedues e aculy dhered to by the Amercns at he aioe sovei immuny demnded by e US govee for is ircr hs meat big problems forNew Zeand in atemps to ol ow of leg drugs hrough Oraon Deep Fre. Similarproblems may est for dngerous goods such explosives but apny tle aento has en padto is issue by authories over he ye. Dug e iet Nm war years napalm and convenionweapos wer crrid on Staiers over ou city d ino our aio wthout he knowledge of he Newnd goene

H NYNGHRC R BCK

A New ork Air Naonl uard skiHercles was spod out at the aipo on Sarday moig26 Augst) Two of hese ircra wer here Jnuy las yearto help wit Ortion Deep Freezead to become familiar with Antarcc yng ondiios d e (se PR Nos 7 d 19 Tha was

oward he end of e 1987-88 Ac ason. To our knowledge es planes did o appar e98889 season as was epeced so we did ot pursue or ivigation of heir possible military rolebeyod what was pod in our June 1988 issue

However ow at oe (or mo) of hese Air Force planes is her again we intend o inquirabou heir role in Anaca and in prcuar who is payig e costs of the vey expnsive ightshlfway around he world jut to get o New Zed m heir noa opraon gio i he forh.

BGG CNCNot a good time for the minitr

'Watchdognd Peace Researcher' a deiled pot on the cou case of four a-bassacvists rrstd nd convicted for tspssing o the US ase at Harwood i October1988 Thatrepor said !at three of te defendts Owe Wes, War omson and Muay Horo) d ledOcial Ifomatio Ac rquess with e foer Minisr of Forei Affairs (now he Ministry forExte Relaions d rade - R) Mr Bob Mu lawyer forhomson nd Horo had done thesme Al these rquess had sed qutos such as: o ows the ld that he US Air ForceMiliary Air ommnd compod snds o? o is e nt? ose law appes in hecompound S or NZ?)

The cour ce was adoued om Decembe o Febuary largely because RT had oresponded to the OA requess i ime. Horo spcied at he eeded e nswe for the Ferarheig He got hem the RT leer ws sitg n his lerbox when he go home om cou,coviced of espass He d lready compln e Omudsman about he delay d the fc ahis request had ever eeackowledged much less wered he Ombudsprso Ms NadaTollemache had accepd is ompli for esgaio

Followig s covicio Horo foly complained Ms Toemache under the OmbudsmnAc of 975 asking her to deemie wheer i was " srigh bureaucraic obsrucoism oricompetence ha best characerized RTs applig perfonce of is leg obligaos

Her four page decision, deivered in Jne. pai a sorry saga of slapdash imcompence

Iitiy MERT sid it had no record whasoeve of reiig Hoo's rques en one ociremembered, nd said he delay wa ecause he ele e had e sn o he row Law Ofce oaoer maer bu he acceped a is was o rea fo e lac of y acknowegemet of youreques"

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6 " However repeated approahes by the Ombudsman's oe old nd nobody else who eald,. Horons quest, and no opy could ound T add inlt to inju hey couldn't fmd he

Ombudsmans leer asking about it They dd aowledge recpt o he sepaate quest mHoton's lawyer and had rng him immedately por to he Deember hearing say hee woud be adelay

When RT na gt its at togeher it sent a suae mail leer hat took 10 days om pstingdate to reah Hoon - too late Ms Tolemahe leved the minimum pror proedure would havebeen a ax o Horns lawyer

METs sreary provided Ms Tolemahe wth a detaied analysis o inhouse pceduresolowing an intea inqury The nial err was not ording the rival o Hoons request Thsled to onsion when MERT reeived a simila quest m Wikes Thomon nd Mutt ey henmisakeny told he Ombudsman that Hons leer had been sent o Legal Divsion or aion thadt - anoer equest had Hoons leter was sent to aoher oer or aon and he latter's namewas put on he aon stamp at name was sbseqenty whited ot "t has not been possble toasetan by whom or when he nme s whited ou Is hs a ovep or a whiteot?

This omplaint has led MERT reos a deet in is predures nd esabsh a register oinoming sgniant OA ques

The Sereay aep t the pedues olwed by he Misty in his ase were notadequate He egets e delay n tang aon on yur request and wihout exusing he delay melsays that the peod om last Deember Janua 989 was not a good one or he Minsry Thenjunon o the nson om e Msy o Freign Aas to he Mnisy o Exteal Relationsand Tade tgeher wh sngs o seor oes and he Chrsas bak, resuted n soe regrettableadminsaive onuion The Seeay has hwever advied at he aepts in flhe nclusions ohe ntea nqu "

The Seeay has inomed me that he oier oneed with he request om you solitoand my a opy o Deember 2 was repimanded at he time and given he leaest possible remnder the need or an expedtius ponse to oia noatn requess t appears hat he oer hasreently resigned om he Mnsty

So the omplaint was upheld nd he verdt was sheer nomtence The AtBasesCampaign an take edit or a bit o unpubliized publ seve stturing Mind you kowingwhat we now now oneg the old Minsrys extremely oblging attde owards he US miitary atHewood we an ony wonder as t hw delibeate was the bungng Losng e le is he oldestbureaurati delayng tai in e world We expet to be deaiing a lot more aut the loyaly o NZstop oreign aars oals Loyaly to whm is the queston The answer is very revealng

NDEPENDENCE OM AMECA DAY - 4 JY 199

by Bob Leonad

The Fou o July is Amerias adional day o elebaion oi vitory over e tyranny omother Enand in the 8h entry Two hundred hteen yeas later meria is praing i own

brd o tyranny nd mpealsm on a ly global sae New Zealand is not beyond the ah o USnuene despite our solatn nd seeming lak sateg mportne exept perhaps as a gaeway oAntara That gateway le n at is he maor asn why we nd he US mlitay ad the UnitedStates nomatin See (US IS) n our mdst

This year the egonal An-Bes Cmpai delad July4 t be 'ndependenc m AmeaDay and demonstraons we held at a number o nes in Austrlia he Philippines d NewZealad e aton in Chsthrh tok plae at mdday begnng wih assembly in ont o heathedral in the Squae About 5 repsnaves wee present rom diverse goups oneed abut theexistene o a US S oe in Qu ity; the gps were he Phlppnes Solidaty Nework n-BasesCmpaign-Chihurh K Slidaty Gop ad he Unversty Peae Gup ;


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The theme was brainwashng - a desird goal of Americ propagda eos emaatng omtime to time fom the USIS n Gloucester Ste So e symblism of he day tok he fo of a oldwngerwashng machne appropately painted wih e Amecan eagle n red, whit and blue adbeang he words "USIS branwashng machine. Tis was wheeled at the head of the noisy andcolourl march om the Squate US IS oce one block away Some ptesters even bught realbrans to be washed te vegetaa bought cauliowe

Of course the Amea banwahng ofce was closed because Jly 4th is an ocial Ameicanholiday In fact we had't known it was here he USIS ould not have been idened om street

level it was almost as ough they had ked up and le e coutry The si noally psent at thefrnt of the Sun Alliane building was missing om its plac holder (our ratr bizare sterannoncng the ptest had also been removed) and here was no Amercan ag uterig om te poleoutside the four oor windows But we dd our set theare our speeches or dung and sinnganyway just in case ay Ameras wer cowering iide and for the educaton of a wlderd ublicAnd e poie een aloed a\putaon to ascend to the fouh oor and depsit a bag of brans forwashng on the next USIS wong day

Weve published a far amont about the USIS and ts parnt domesc organizaon the USIfoation Agency (USIA in Peae Resarcher/Off Base over the years Weve published thenames of New Zealandes whove taken e trips he USA under the spnsohip of the nteaonalVisitor Grat prgre There are many other such progmes l pad for by te US taxpayer Therghtwing Hetage Foundaton ecently publishd a bakgunder frm its Asian Studes Center its

tile is Dealing with Waywad New Zealand dated 21 Ap 18) Iuded n 12 pages of walngabout our ainuclear/anANZS std some commendaons for the Bush admnisaon:

Expand the activies of the US Infomaton Agency ch as saker scholarexhanges to enurage greater New Zalad suprt for ANZUS

Connue to rese to sign ptocls of he 85 South Pacic Nuclear Fre ZoneTreaty because they may consa tre milita coraon wth Australia

** Expand militay coopeaon wit Auralia

** Urge Ausaa and New ealad cote Soviet nt gups that seek uene

ANZS

Stad ady to sme mlta cooaon wi New Zealad when it chages itannuclear policies hat hae ben mak uch coopeation impssible

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Furher on he piece, he auho, Ronld D Fishe states Whle the US should not li heescons it has placed on miary cooperaon with New Zealad, it should not wat untl the nextNew Zeald elecion to ty to rverse he dmage to ANZUS caused by the Labor goveent Thelonger the crisis ingers he ga the chae at Nw Zeald publc suppor fo he alice willwne!

Fishe invokes the USIA again "The Bsh adminisaion shoud:

. case e resouces located to he US nformaon Agency o expad saker adothe visitor progams to build suppor fo ANZUS in New Zealad Curreny USIA isallocated about $67 milion fo such pogms in he South Pacic. is is slaed to bcut to $63 miion fo scal 1990 but t should be increased to $7 mion Tsadditiona money old allow suden and opnon leaders om New Zealnd and heSouh Pacic island states to visi he US Also Washngon's Ambassado o NewZeald shoud speak out bldly uppo of ANZUS

Speang about the US poung doa o Sou Pacic, compae he ave alocations tothe USS with 'aid' doars pvided to Pai aons in ecent years A few paragaphs ealie in hBackgrounder, Fishe descibes US assisa he "economic development of he sm islnd stesand to counte Soviet aives in he egon In 987 fo emple Wsigon signed n agreemewih he een Souh Pacific sates egding US g aes to heir teriorial wates. As pa of

is ageement, Wahington aged to provide ese t $0 million in aid ove ve years This yea[1989] the aid will total $ mlion; s is a lavly lage mot fo a goup whose combinedpopulation is oy about e million

Ifhose gures are correct d we have no independent veication at hand US id ranks wi itsSouh Pacic propagad invesen 1989 Ad you c assume hat little New Zelad w beaebt of e propaganda doa as he US steps up i NZUS saes pogamme Sma wonde Davidage caused such a fuss when he mused at Yal about nung he NZ in ANZUS

WHO WHO LG DG?

The latest naonal potest at the aihop satite spybse took place over he weekend ofAugsut 182 In a break wih past prace, he geat buk of ose pesent wee from Chrstchurch,wihhe University of Cntebr Peace Goup being the biggest single contngent At extremely o

notice he students took on he job of feeding the masses ad hey made an excelent job of it ndeedFo easons at we wont go ito hee the was ver tle paipaion from Welingon o Nelsonpeople So numbers we down (about 0) but lacked nohing i inventveness o enhusiam

The most visible dieence at the spybase itself which is neay operatonal, is hat he sateiedish is up Not that anyone can see it because its coveed by a 5-metre hgh, 30me diameter,synthetc fbre whte dome It is so hgh ts topped i a red ght to wa passing aircra (it lookslikes the proveral pimple on a pumpkin) According to he 'Mlborough Express 8 July 1989)The dome is to parly potect he dish m e weae nd pary to proect it fom possible

vadaism The dome is pressursed nd is made fom matea hat feels ke he surace of atrampoline

The base is lookng moe and moe ke a pson Not only is the whole complex suunded by ahgh fence, topped wi barbed wire n electic fene of equl height now immediately inside themain fence. noher fence suounds the dome itse The whole plac is oodlit at nght survellcecmeas are spaced aound he peimete e formidab spiketopped gate opens only fom a secuitycad-operated machine. On te wekend of e demo secuity was in the hands of a Bleheim secutyim whose goons wee geaed up in csh helmt bulletproof vests, and long batons the poo mansRed Squad) e police we low ky point of bg viualy invisible The was no moe GoodOld Boy fm h GCSB o tell us he Kwi too wh ha his opion on igs but hes not alowed toeve it It is he nked face of State violen at wl se at Waihopai fm now on

And what does s ouost o Ameic illience cost he NZ tapayer? The 1989 budgetpublished he GCSB budget fo he m ee t of a staggeing total of $3 million fo assoedspy agencies (SIS, Eteal ntelligenc Beau) e CSB wi eceive $19 milion, fom he PrimeMinistes Depaet .


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/ Tacs at ths demoation we exmey baic evey ene of t word e weenobreak-i wy risk elecocuon or tuggey fm the yd up goocked i nide? No, we decidedtat as te NZpeople aden fed oncentrated bullhit aut Wapai a t we woud e,fc ofchge, soe of at bushit And that's exaty wha we did. O t Satuday afeoon webombaded the dome the hapess goons, eac oe withb ee was a pen suyavaiabe at ou usual cmpsite next to e Waiau Rive We bit a pendid Heath Robinson catputbt decided not to use it out of pity fo the goons e BS was dieed by hand, nd some vey songhwing ams inded wee reveaed

he ecd fo one indiVdu ws six hits out of eight ws e Fist Wahopai Bushitwig contest was a esouding cces d a joy good me ws had by al e pisie whtedome ws duy spteed; cmes had be otted inwa ae hei opeaos eceived ascatoogica eyefu nd we poved once agan at no mont of expensive secity measus wi keepus away fom US spybses i "nuce e Aoteaoa

Immediatey afte the sht hit he fn (o he dome he case may be) we showed ou goodwto men by heping the embssed ice ch one ofei paddywagon.

We visited he ine compex on bo the Fday nd Satday night On the atte we set upcmp compete with e ouside e nne gate e pice duy came nd not vey convincingyatened to aest a 40 of us, one at a time if necessay. Nody coud see any point n gettng

aeted, so we decamped to the oute gate ighng n even bigge e ee A coupe of Benheimcops did thei bit fo Satuday ght camadee by suppying eveydy wih home bew ony i NewZend?

A hose peviousy ested at Waihopai whethe acqted convied, o had chgeswithdawn have been seed wih two-yea bming odes mking them aumaticay iabe aestfo spass if they ente the 90 ace Minsy of Defence compex at Wahopai ese odes wedeed in Augst and no as we made So New end has joned Souh ica in having bnedpeon

e next schedued spybae ptest is Cantebuy Show wekend (Novem 12h ismean Cristchuch peope can be pesnt on Fiday the h a pubic hoiday in Caneuy, but a

wokday in Maboough Pacipant fom ound e cty asked bng bbish bags fomhei dicts - we intend to cean up n aea, d et some ubbish to he pies at Waihopai ewi so be acions in e majo cies befo then

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PEACE RESEARCHER COMMENT:

FRIGATE FRA TRICIDE -Buying into the MilitaryIndustral Complx

Unless the arms race is halted, it wi ultimately desoy humankind eier dirctly o byeconomic suicide. Cuny global weapons poduction consumes US$18 miion a minute round theclock. Despite e ecen thaw in he cold w between the supowers miltary spnding woldwideconnues to expand and paticulaly in he Middle East where hee is an insatiable market fo st ndsecond wold s

According to a new eport eniled "The Supeowes at Sea fom the Stockhom InteationlPeac Reseach Instiute (SRI) he US and he Soviet Union have embaked on an ncontrolled

nuclear arms ace at sea where the sks of escalation into nuclear wa are much igher thn on lnd(The Dominon' 26 May 1989) e Bush adminisaon is lso cuently intensifying US nuclea ststike plans with a new foula designed to eliminate he Soviet Jeadersip ealy n a conict ('LosAngeles Times' 23 uy 989 a summay of he 'Times article appeaed in the NZ Herald' 24 y989

Tis sttegy is guaateed to increase he danges of accident miscalculaon and geneallyheightened tensions in ny futre csis Fist sik techonologies are constantly being developed ndened by the US militay and pobably by he Sovie mitay

n the mentime in a world wrcked with conict tween ich and poor, ethnic and religious

tumoil as well as he increasing pospect of resource was resuling fom deepenng envimentcrises conventional weapony nd oher aments like biological nd chemical weapons spradinghroughout the Tird Wod ANZAC brother Austalia plns to spend $ billion over he next deadeon new capitl equipment and faciliies lone

Butnone of is sees to matte to very my people Mny yeas ago Einstein said a new wayof inking was needed to save humanity but his wang seems to men noing to those mnfacturesscabbling fo a slice of e ANZAC figate project to politicins like Defence Miister Tizad to thoseunions seeking defence jobs and aboe to he moulde of public opinion he mass media Wih somny powel vested intersts eager to shap the debate a wider and arguably wiser perspective iseasily iored o dismissed as ouide e paametes of discussion The profound implicaions of eams ace e global tends d pocesses at wok diving is rac and he morality of buying intohe gowing milita-ndustl complex a being blindly bshed aside. Hee in Cistchurch acegoups have made epeaed bt unsuccssful media elees uging debate on he wider implications of

he poposed frigate pogramme e Pss' fo instanc in its ost daily coverage of the topic hascaelly avoided any efeence t the ms ace o n ams industy' o simila tems The wholeissue has become focussed pimaly on how many obs New Zaland might get fom a 'defenceindusy' One may indeed despai at e pospc of ou failing socioeconomic system succumbing to

the lue of militazation a way out

One group we have not yet menioned as insmentl in involving New Zealnd in e process of

militization is the militay isef. Tis involvement is fndamental and totaly pedictable, but the

bureaucratic elemenths been lite appciated attmes. As we have previously pointed out(as long

agoas 'Peace Reseache No., 1984), n ams industy fo New Zaland has long been a central aim ofDence Depaen bueaucats. Nowmilita iking is exemplied by fomeSeceyof

DefenceM DenisMcLn, now a iting fellow atthe Auslian Naonal University inCanbea .


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McLa ues wo nd w fo doe N tatn ('T ' 2 ugt Heh cowien majo mia piecs h od of AN ung the NC igats.Anothe pomnent Austli acdemc w in e po-gate pde of uppot is RossBabba Babbage ben pcarl rem about the ipbl damage to NZ-Atai on that wold rsl m e gat.

Indd, mong the decsomak e aTamn latonshp em to bprevailing over al o coideos g NAC shi The jobs gle is ud to pry

deiat s out of her opposon e gas I us ot surpsing that those New Zedpolcins who a mst oed n inteo ers pmly cabinet mbrs including eew Prime Minister M m appr sold d he prchas of the fites oicly hesole cabet holdou! may be Mr oger Du h sed hs opposiion o the gats in the paon e bis of cos at is of cose a mjo dome ement n the debate. Ad domescconideaos, hose o pm dirc ile welbing of New Zeles have encst aide in the ushI apse usl. fat of he matt is tha our policalleade do not hae he mor uge e e d a o me emantng fom thelikes of Auslin Defence Minis Km Bely.

"TOWARD WORLD OF PEAEop Crat Anivs

Edited by Jnnee P Maas nd Robe AC ewaPblished by The Univerisity of he Soth ac

Sua, Fiji, 86 5 pp

Book Reiew by Rh W Keer

e Und Naons delad 86 to b h Ye of eac nd it t ocil event was the Fitntational Coence on Coic Rsoluo d ece Studies held at the Uiveity of the SouthPacic i Sua Fji n aont of e pdngs ws prpad nd a copy w obtaed by 'Peac

Reahe fo view It prface o by sayng th Fii w a mot apppat pl to hod hecofernce, not oy cause e day he bu bcu Fiji demod a uiqueability to develop telatio btwen my ehc oups wthout dtuce tgoims"

Sice hen the mla coup i Fji has exposd cal atgonim o mo opy haps, itshould said that acil sion he be imed e cooal legacy of miatd pulao dthe potnt combinon of wete igion mia power Fiji have cobied wi shi ipolical d economic owe o bg nsbili e count e hve he d polici i usliaand New Zalnd int to a lost nonce in he uh acic a juscation fo inceinglymilitastic outook o seuty espi hese oomy rends since he fence, the thought bughto Fiji om l over he wold povide some iig aut how to at ose ds d howgenely to conceplize prlems d impve e pscts fo pac

The confe attraced academics rm 8 hough e one whose people old moseasily afod the plae fa (UA and lia) we he best prsentd The orgaizes of econfence were disappointd hat noademic gups we tle psented whee w the Newld pace moemen? Bu wha coud e ect pubcity eort wer pimarly thughUnvesity concs nd heir es r pposs by par suitd acadeics best About 10 papfom dieen counes are prnd or abced n hi olume giing with he keynote addssby aes Afven of he oy nsite of hnoog ckholm wede

Accoing o Dr fen the umms d b eades of the as ace ned to b orected sotha no ony c debae hones bu so o o pmve level slogans cn be bee uderoodand used. Wha ar sly cld "nlear a old more appopately cld "nucleannhilato Nuclea war shod b ced "iid. hat is ced Depament of fenceshould be refeed as "Depe fo M dr Cil Populatons" y use ofaihlatos cludng reas shod ewd cr agast humnit. Using these wods wouldchge perpeces; a chnge in powe ppo u sult e leades of he rms ace those wihnuclea ielligence could be paced by w humane inellgence


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2 Tod the end of th compiation, Rchard N Haa of Hrd Unveit USA pay tbute to

nucle detence and 40 yea of ace. Th i he uual view eld by toe n otrol of nuclereapon It i cuou tat h fer to Dr Alfn' add ayng tat calling apon "haroly ere to aenate audience and iolate pac research M Ha vie hould not bupiing coming om an advocat of detrrn H old b one of toe Dr Alfven refe to hohave contol of te lnguag n the debate oday a h race coninue developing i rttriktrate He ould not nt to loe that control I a inc tat M Haa ke at te plenryeion ned "D H Crea eav?

The paper at the cofrnce ee ubmitd udr ix topic:

1. Theoe and techiqu in colict rolutionll Nationalim v the World a expandd ommunity

1II Economic factor in rlaohip to conictIV onfontng the nuclar criV Humn ightVI Pac tudi nd rarchVII Supoer rvalry n th Pacifc Bin

[Where i th topic of old cology gtng o much publicity today]

Brf rpor from fou ymia nd four plna ion conclud te volm

Viou diciplin repreentd Knud S Larn i a profeor of pychology at OrgonStat Uveity (USA) ho preented a papr ntild The Socil Pychology of Militry TechnologyWhil admitting te appeance of a chological dtiim ince any eapon ytem devlopd ilay implemented t reaon for that li byond Mora aboluim and ideological competionhav creatd polician ho employ ualizd idologi uch a th race to ceate preionTh idea of uperioty or even ymmeic paity ar nuclar inty yet e acceptd becaue theyre the pupo of rualied idology

It may b noted tat US preident hav falen to hi behavour patte ince te atom bomba developed Ronald reagan took th one ep rr by emphaing a mindle moral aolutm(focu of evl) intead of prtending to hide it ih e uual jargon of "epet mphi on thinn i hat made Ragan o pul aly in th ighe hen the Amecan people rt bcmeuper-frutrated by the coure of event

RR Thaman a reader in Geogaphy at t Uverity of South Pacic prented the olyecologcal vie at the onfeenc in a papr entled Tr oct Reoluton nd Peace ThePreaon of Tee a a Pcondition for Enviromentl and Social Stablty antng tee canetblih a reeal of t elf dtrucve acvite of market economie Tree nd all of te naturalorld mut be thought of a a capital invent to mantain rather th a income to be pen Manytrditonal ocie epeially South Pacic on hi in i ay and teir atacton to te i apirtul one

Raendra Praad i th th Department of Dfnc Sudie at te Unveity of Gorakhpur in

India Hi paper Th hnging Dyamic of th Nuclr Debat" ay tat curent tinkng i out ofdat ne eapon are counterproducv Snc confdnce buldng ill be necey fordiarmment rm contol i a paramoun condition of damment And inc bo upeer havearmament far in ece of tho rquird to detrn atack by th other recipocal unlatel retrancan be implemented thout ny advr ecuty conidration by eier Utd Stte or the SovitUon

Economic i rpntd by Dr lva ano Dputy Dirctor of e Inttute of WorldEconomic nd Intational Rlation at h Sovt cadmy of Science He ay that dvlopingnaon ar not bnefting from h prlifration of a in he ird World On ould ui thathairmn Gorbachev h th a abot h Soit ion

It i diappointing hat f omn mad conbution Barba Moo and Jane Ricktt of Unverity of t Souh Paci rt of War and Pac in hildren Litratur They how thatchildren book may bh appal nd ilutrat ucful caring and unaggeive behviour Oneampl i "War and Pa by Michal Formn 1974 nothr i an old favourit "e Sory ofFerdinan" (thebul) by Munr Leaf, 1937.


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Peace rsearcr Andr Mack o e Aun Nanal Uvei in Cna was he amember f a panel on he topic, "Awakening he Sleeping Dagon and address a plen ssin nthe tpic "Wat is Peace Research? I a nutshell pace seah is king fr alteves t te

commonbarbaus means of clict solutn. sngest opposition peace reseah cmes omthose who believe accomodan wih ei enemes is nt aeptable

New aland is repsentd by sveral ope nding Dr an Prior of e Wellingtn branch ofthe Inteanal Physicins for he Pvenon of Ncea War; Edward Djux Upr Hut RaryJmeson bnd of Auckd, representing Bhai omny and Rodney Gates f he New aandHigh Commission n Fii who spoke of he Souh P Nulea Fe ne cration

Also, Frances A. Welker-Rea of Chschurh pesented a par enid, "The Trang of aPeacemaker" , wch speaks of herse her epees in a mining commuity in the USA be apeacemaer, one must feel genuie compsion oat les have spect for l paes in a dispute.

Several other paper might of speal NZer There is an entr section on"Supwer Rivales in the Pacic Basin nd in paar Aan Mlers ANZUS 198: he End ofan Era". An adjunct to tat wod b "Nava s d Nava Ams Contol" by JanPw eMinister f Defence for Sweden in 86

For tse who see New Zads tu a el provider f mediatin sics he Sout

Pacic or a wider aa "Thi Paty Consulon: A blem Solving Apprach for EscaatingInteaonal Coct by Rond J Fshe o e nieity of Sascatchewan Canada wold be ofinterest Another wuld b "Preconditios for he Success of Mediain as a Mean f ConictResoluon he Cae of War of Insurgency" psented by Hizkias Asfa Assisant Proessr ofEconomics at La Roche Colege he USA

This ind of eperse woud pbaby ncessry for NZ to pject an mage f pacemaker Itwould cetainy be more convncing hn a demonation of he rning of ur paiamena system ofgoveent

SOVET SGNAS INTEGEE

he pi Dr Dsmond Ball f he Auslin Naonal Uiveity has witen yet aner bkEntitled 'Soviet Signa Intigence (SIGINT' it is not what you wold c gripping ading butitdhave its fascinang bis The bk pobably dsn't wrnt a flreview but rade of PeaceResercher ught to knw of i existene

Some sentences fm e Intucion are woh reating here"The Sviet Unn mantains the most exensie d mos comphensie signas inteligenc (SIG)capabilies in t wrld" "Accrdng to one source, e Soviet SIGT estabisment emplys abut3 onnel - as compd t the US Naonal Secuty Agenc NSA and Seice ColgicalAuthorities (SCAs) which geter emply some 6007pnnel, making e Svet SIGestabisment abut fve imes as large as e US SIGINT establsment

The Soviet ion mantains mo hn 5 SGT gound stations, in te USSR iself andabroad. SIGINT systems are o maain nSovet dplomac establimens in at leat62counres ey have also been deployed n a eaorina range of plaoms These ncludesubmarnes surace sips bot ships of opptn nd dedicated SIGINT vessels), aircra, spacesateltes nd vaous ck and other vehle

The book is most a phoographc essay mny pitures couresy of e S milita. Althughmany of the photos ae rather poorly repduced e casul ader can get a prtt gd idea what aSoviet embassy sp or aeropane spong vos tenae loks like. The embassy photos taken inmny cities arnd he globe a largey uncrded s Ba must have taen them hself He does getaround

Dr Bal h done lle more tha ompile ng o Soviet SIGINT facities ad daacolecton capabilies ad concude wi a wng to weste society hat it should secu its vitalcommunicationsfom Sovietears.

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14 One cnnot help but wonder just how ecent the Soets a at pocessng the cushng aountof 'ntegence' that t sweeps up eey second of eey mnute of eey .... We ow that the Sovetsare years behnd n computer technology They are o doubt hag play a gme of catchup not olyto match weste capabtes but sply to catch up er ow ast abty to gaher rawtellgence

'Soet Sals Intellgece' by Desmond Bll s aalable fom the Sategc ad DefenceSudes Cene Research School of Pacc Studes, The Austln Natonal Unesty, Canberra

LAWUIT FILED O LAUCO-WARIG"

O 1 May 989 Dr Clord Johnso of CPSRao Alto (Computer Professonals for SocalResponsblty) led n he US Dstrct Cou S ose Clfoa a ew lawut chlegng eleglty of the nucler command nd cotrol system In preous tgato Johnson sued the Secretarof Defense Caspar Wenrger llegng at e US ucler launch-on-wang polcy was dependeto erorprone computers that could gger accdetl ucler lanch He aleged that ths usupedthe power of the Congress to declre war ad of he Pesdet to commad the ed fos sdestreatenng hs ow lfe That case was dsmssed las year prmaly o he gound hat nferencesbased o Deprtment of Defence polcy are at best speculae" The Court ndcated that had e

drecty rsponsble mltary ofcers bee med s defendts the nuy mght be actoable

Accordngly he new case sus Gene Cha e ommander n Chef of he Strategc ArCommand d hs Mutema/MX cha of commd ght down to the mssle combat crews me Johso chaeges ot ony lauchowang but so pmpton (or rst stke ad laucho-mpact In parcular he drecly attacks he defedts stadng oders lauch Mnuteman/Mmssles mmedately upon recept of a exclusely execute launch order een acetme Thesestadng ordes he lleges are nhereny nd reclessly dgerous The defendants know or playshould now hat t would be eg for em to execute such a launch order the ng papes say anso er duty would be to dsobey such a lanch oder Because of ths ther preset duty s to reokee standng orders.

There are four cous each of whch s based o leged olaons of both costtutonal ad

eaoal law The rst cou apples he laws at ony e Congrss may declare wa ad at oo may eopardze the peace The second cout hallenges nuclear st use applyng the laws aol he Congress may qultaely epnd war nd hat st use s any case a dsporonaterespose The thrd count eges that the standg orders mount an ntolerable mson oorepublcan goeet by mache e fourh cou chllenges secret but crcumstntllyproable delegatons of uclear lauch autorty 10 e mltay

Johnson admts that he s retung to he l cour wthout much hop of n success at hatleel but wh the pmary puose of deelopng a complete record por to askng te Suprme Courto reew hs lgaton whch he commenced 19 84 The Eecue Commtee of e Bo ard ofDrectos of CPSR has edorsed te ew acton, as t h endorsed the pror lawsuts

* rm 'The CPSR Newsleter' Vol 7 No 2, Sprg 989 p 8

TE IRA/COTRA AFFARThe Cnnn Tal

b Bob Leonard

Perhaps you hought you had herd e lat of the Irn/Contra aar once Ole Noh was trdad had hs hd slapped But strers at he Wahobased Chrstc Istute cotue to dg for etru and hae take ther case e US cou T foowg quoted materal s from he Isttutepublcaton caed Coergece (Sprng 988

Whle Goeent ofcals closng e os o e Irn/cotra aar he ChsIsttutess cl lawsut agast he prate etwor behd te scdl s dggng deeper to quesosle uexed by Federl estgato ;


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6 Iran/contra may seem irlevnt in this remote par of the obe. But US eos to desy the

Sndinista goveen in Nicaraga a highly rlevnt to New Zealand Our people and ourgoveent should lly infoed on the lengh to which a so-called democracy wil go, in secrecynd ilegally to deabilize and topple e leadership a naon with which it does not agee Need weremind you that the Bush administaon doe not ike our nuclear-fr goveent?

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