Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: T.Stewart@massey.ac.nz Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: ANZUS Message-ID: <13371@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 22 Jan 90 06:02:29 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Lines: 39 Approved: military@att.att.com From: T.Stewart@massey.ac.nz My thanks to all those who replied via-email to my posting regarding ANZUS. I realise that Sci.military was not quite appropriate for a discussion of this nature but we (NZ) only subscribe to a limited number of newsgroups and do not receive Talk.politics and the like. I have endevoured to answer all respondents via e-mail with the exception of the one public posting which occurred. Unfortunately, this article was lost at this end before I could reply to any of the points. If the author could send me a copy I will gladly address (via e-mail) the points raised. For the record, I still think the U.S. government over-reacted to the situation (particularly the continuing diplomatic snubs and talk of trade reprisals) and in doing so alienated a large number of N.Z.'ders sympathetic to the U.S.A. position. However, I accept that our Government is also at fault, particularly with its desire to stay in ANZUS yet ban nuclear warships. As I said in the original posting - we can't have our cake and eat it too. One thing the letters have given me, is an appreciation of how the issue appears to ordinary folks from the other (U.S.) side. That's something you can't always get out of the media. The present "diplomatic freeze" is in the interests of neither country and I can only hope a "thaw" is just around the corner although it may take a change in Government (N.Z. or U.S.) to do it. We have an election scheduled for the middle of this year and the present regime is fairly unpopular. Terry Stewart Massey University ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Any relationship between my views and views of my employer etc. are entirely coincidental