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Film: opposing views - 1981 Springbok tour

The All Black and the pilot

A 1981 All Black, Doug Rollerson, and flour-bomb pilot Marx Jones provide opposing views on the tour in this 2006 interview. Both are adamant that they were right in the stance they took at the time.

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protest
rugby
springboks
all blacks
apartheid
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TVNZ
Extract from 1981 tour special on Close up, 4 July 2006

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