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...midst of New Zealand's election campaign, Laborite Prime Minister Wallace ("Bill") Rowling observed that if Opposition Leader Robert Muldoon wanted to know "why he is so unacceptable to many people, a quick glance in any mirror would give him the answer." Perhaps Rowling should have looked at the mirror himself. Last week, as he prepared to hand over power to Muldoon's triumphant New Zealand National Party, the outgoing Prime Minister allowed that he felt as though he had "been run over by a bus." In an upset, the conservative Nationalists won a 19-seat majority...
...outset of the campaign to avoid speaking before big crowds. Stocky, abrasive Muldoon is a cost accountant with a pugnacious political style that proved to be a powerful attraction on the campaign trail. Muldoon criticized Rowling as "too timid and too tentative" to be Prime Minister. Although New Zealand is not exactly beset by a crime wave, Muldoon promised law-and-order government. He also attacked Labor's economic record-inflation has risen from 5.5% in 1972 to 14.8% this year-and accused the government of mortgaging New Zealand's future by borrowing heavily overseas (more than...
...toppling of New Zealand's Laborites was a matter of lively interest in Australia. Three years ago, Labor governments were elected in both countries within a week of each other. This week Australian voters go to the polls to resolve the constitutional crisis created when Malcolm Fraser, head of the Liberal-National Country Party coalition, was named by Governor General Sir John Kerr to form a caretaker government, replacing Labor Party Leader Gough Whitlam as Prime Minister (TIME, Nov. 24). Australia's Labor Party, like New Zealand's, was accused of economic mismanagement in office. Though voting...
Americans once assumed that all the world was evolving, or should be, toward Wisconsin or New Zealand-style democracy. We now know it is not happening any time soon, certainly not in South America...
...Kissinger took time out from his U.N. rounds to attend the quiet burial of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, the alliance founded in 1954 to contain the expansion of Communist regimes in Southeast Asia. He and the representatives of the active members of SEATO-Britain, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines and Thailand-decided that the alliance, "in the light of the new situation in the Southeast Asian region, should be phased out." Thailand and the Philippines were becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the treaty at a time when they had begun to seek improved relations with Peking, and with Hanoi emerging...