Stud. Ass. Sponsors Meeting

(By Les Slater)

The Students' Association is co-sponsoring the Peace, Power and Politics in Asia conference to be held in Wellington from Marsh 30 to April 2.

The conference is being sponsored by many organisations.

At the meeting of the Executive which discussd this last Tuesday night, Malcolm Grover spoke strongly against the Conference.

The chairman. Dan Bradshaw, abstained: but the motion was carried with the votes of the other seven members present.

Among the overseas visitors speaking at the conference are Conor Cruise O'Brien 'formerly Irish Ambassador to the U.N. and U.N. negotiator in the Congo crisis). Jean Lacouture (an historian of the Vietnam conflict). Felix Greene (author of Vietnam, Vietnam) and Dr Jim Cairns, M.P. (foreign affairs spokesman for the Australian Labour Party).