<h2>USAF B52's Wairarapa Flyover:</h2><p><h2><center>Winston Peters' Letter to ABC Raises More Questions Than Answers</h2></center>

In late March the Anti-Bases Campaign (ABC) distributed our strong concerns about the (ultimately aborted) planned flyover of the Wings Over Wairarapa Airshow by a  US Air Force B52 bomber. We wrote to the Government about it.

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We have now received a letter from Winston Peters, Minister of Foreign Affairs. To say that Peters' reply surprised us is putting it very mildly indeed. It raises more questions than answers. Here are a couple:

How many previous US aircraft visits were from nuclear capable aircraft?

"New Zealand makes its own determinations regarding military aircraft or vessel visits and does not require any state to make a declaration on nuclear armament". This means that US military planes visiting NZ could carry nuclear weapons and New Zealand would not know. So, where is NZ's nuclear free law in all of this? Peters' letter makes a mockery of it, indeed it renders that law null and void. 

Murray Horton

Secretary/Organiser