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Letter: Letters : Who's in charge?

Published 3 August 1996

From Pete Nickless

Auckland, New Zealand

In your May 25 issue (This Week, p 7)
you report Jean-Pierre Contzen as
saying: “We must demonstrate to our political masters that global change
research…” Demonstrate, yes, by all means. Often. But masters? Let’s get
it right: we employ them. Was this a translation error, or are Europeans going
soft?

Issue no. 2041 published 3 August 1996

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