Scoop Links: Gorbachev's Peace Plan A Gem

Saturday, 14 August 1999, 3:38 am
Article: Alastair Thompson

The controversy over the attendance of 60 New Zealand Defence personnel at a "Masters of Business" seminar in Auckland featuring Mikhail Gorbachev and Stormin Norm "Desert Storm" Swartzkopf contains some sweet irony.

The New Zealand government and opposition are both outraged at the cost $40,000 for the Defence Force delegation.

There has since been some discussion of the merits of the seminar with the consensus appearing to now be that Mikhail and Norm were okay but the rest was a bit shallow.

Now, admittedly $40,000 is a lot of money, and while loath to agree with the New Zealand Herald on anything , Scoop wonders in light of the following two items - found on the web circa 1995 - - whether it might in fact have been a bit of an over reaction to so summarily dimiss the benefits of attendance at this seminar.

It seems that aside from touring the world Gorby is still backing a few causes - and the following, is in this Scoop's view, a true gem.

Source.: http://www.netwizards.net/~godi/rebel/mnfst.html

Links:

Manifesto - World Without Wars

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE9908/S00082.htm

"That the use of weapons ends, that wars stop..."

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE9908/S00081.htm

Both in the General wire. in the wire.

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Alastair Thompson

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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.

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