Rightest Forces Attack

Now that he is a Maoist, it's obvious the Dominion's editor is going to have to tread warily.

Already there are hints that Western agents and the big international finance groups are moving against him with plans to destroy the paper's circulation.

The first attack by the rightist forces is expected to leave the Dominion without it's syndicated horoscopes and comic strips, thus halving the paper's circulation.

The second assault, which will leave the Dominion with no readers at all, involves the re-routing of the Porirua-Wellington trains around; rather than through the hills they meet on their way to town.

Once the tunnels are gone, commuters will be offered a choice between looking out the window and reading the Dominion - and it's expected most of them will opt for the scenery.

The Dominion though - and we understand it may be renamed 'The People's standard' - has a number of weeks to change the basis of its sales away from the boredom of commuters and the infantile and superstitious nature of the petit-bourgeoisie, and into the area of mass, united front struggle.

Salient understands that the right-wing and racist 'The Phantom' strip will be replaced by a new strip about an African Tribesman who fights right-deviationist forces in Shanghai, and 'Peanuts' with a cartoon about the class nature of American Kindergartens.