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...ready to destroy their homeland for personal gain and power. You cannot deal with hoodlums by resorting only to diplomacy and negotiations. The U.S. has risked its troops, resources and security to tackle evil and greed in Iraq. For that, it should be praised. Rajiv Thind Christchurch, New Zealand...
...ready to destroy their homeland for personal gain and power. You cannot deal with hoodlums by resorting only to diplomacy and negotiations. The U.S. has risked its troops, resources and security to tackle evil and greed in Iraq. For that, it should be praised. RAJIV THIND Christchurch, New Zealand...
...Zealand's Pacific neighbors - especially Niue and the Cook Islands, whose people carry N.Z. passports - are also potential back doors for those seeking a Kiwi identity. In December the government ended visa-free entry for citizens of Nauru, Tuvalu and Kiribati. It's also working with Australia to help Pacific states tighten notoriously lax border controls. "We are constantly vigilant," says Goff. So are most other nations - and they'll now look a little more closely at those blue passports...
...year, and of the 1,200 or so people who, like Zaoui, claim refugee status on arrival, fewer than 20% are accepted. "The easiest way in," he says, "is to get 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...
...Designers are looking for different lines." If the recent Fashion Week in Sydney is any guide, they are increasingly looking to menswear. New labels popped up as frequently as gelled '80s hairdos while, taking a cue from international crossover stars like Jil Sander, Helmut Lang and Karen Walker, New Zealand's Zambesi joined Akira in showing its first men's line. Where once "over in the corner was a lonely little rack called menswear," notes Sydney style maven Belinda Seper, these days "it's part of the same market. The lines are blurring...