Word: goffe
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...this country before it is too late," and pleas from Progressive M.P. Matt Robson to avoid "a hysterical reaction to the threat of terrorism," the Labour-led government is moving to toughen passport, citizenship and immigration rules. But while Kiwis "cannot afford to be complacent," says Foreign Minister Phil Goff, "our border protection is probably as tough as anywhere. New Zealand is far from a soft touch...
...impossible that members of terrorist groups are living in New Zealand, says Foreign Minister Goff, but nor is it likely. "Because we're a small country," he says, "we're very nosy people. If people turn up behaving oddly, we tend to notice." (In 2000, Auckland police said they'd busted a plot to blow up Sydney's nuclear reactor during the Olympic Games. The evidence fell apart and all charges against the suspects, two Afghan taxi drivers, were dropped. A retired Australian intelligence officer familiar with the case puts it down to "police hysteria.") The 40,000-strong Muslim...
...yourself a business visa, wear a $1,000 suit and say you want to invest in a New Zealand business." (It's been claimed al-Qaeda high-up Ayman al-Zawahiri visited New Zealand twice in the 1990s posing as a leather salesman, but Foreign Minister Goff says police have found no evidence for this.) Alternatively, Buchanan says, "you could come on a student visa and overstay, though that's being tightened up worldwide - many of the 9/11 hijackers were in the U.S. as students." In Auckland last week, a Kuwaiti student and an Iraqi were charged with forging passports...
...also focused attention on bringing cohesion to the black arts community. Two years ago, according to Lee, Philipp Goff ’99 founded the Black Arts Council out of fears that the black arts community was “splintered and divisive...
...Goff surveyed ethnic-arts groups and found that the most feasible first step was to add a student to the OFA staff...