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    Vincent Aspey

    When nine-year-old Vincent Aspey persuaded his mother to buy a violin he had spotted in a second-hand shop she was dubious that he would practice, let alone come to be described as ‘synonymous with orchestral development in New Zealand’.

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Protest as USS Texas visits Auckland

1983 Protest as USS Texas visits Auckland

The visit sparked anti-nuclear rallies on land and sea. Nuclear ship visits became an election issue in 1984 and they were later banned by David Lange's Labour government. more...

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Ship visits - nuclear-free New Zealand

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  • Legal challenges to nuclear weapons (Disarmament and security centre)
  • David Lange obituary (NZ Herald)
  • ANZUS (Wikipedia)
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