Gość: bumerang
IP: *.nsw.bigpond.net.au
22.09.04, 14:35
Longi (nowozelandczycy wymawiaja Longi, a pisza Lange) byl ich najbardziej
znanym Premierem. "Zagral USA na nosie." Dzieki niemu NZ zostala zdegradowana
przez USA z roli "sprzymierzenca" do roli "przyjaciela" (zaledwie!!). A poza
tym Longi mial problemy bardzo nam nieobce - z malzenstwem, choroba,
alkoholem - az odkryl swoja niesmiertelnosc. "To jest smieszna sprawa, kiedy
zdaje ci sie, ze umarles, bo nie boisz sie juz wtedy niczego wiecej".
Najlepszego,
bumerang (kiedys Antypod)
>>He’s the man who thumbed his nose at America and got away with it, perhaps
New Zealand’s best known Prime Minister. Now David Lange is facing his
biggest battle yet - a fight for life. He talks to candidly to Auckland based
correspondent Gillian Bradford about his public life and his personal crisis.
David Lange sent seismic shocks down the corridors of power in Canberra and
Washington when he banned American warships in the 1980’s. It spelt the
effective end of the ANZUS military alliance. Hailed as a heroic move in New
Zealand, Prime Minister Lange set a blazing agenda as the country’s new
Labour Prime Minister.
“I peaked too early” admits Mr Lange. “I was Prime Minister at forty-one, I
was done by the time I was fifty. Now I’m on the pension!”
A superb orator, Lange's giant frame towered over political foes. But Mr
Lange’s personal life was marred by turmoil.
“David Lange spoke to me very frankly about the break up of his first
marriage, and his fight with alcoholism and depression” says Bradford. “He’s
always been straightforward”.
But on Foreign Correspondent, he reveals he has a rare, incurable blood
disease. Chemotherapy is helping, and Mr Lange says he now has the prospect
of ‘some degree of life’.
He talks to Bradford about the ‘serenity’ he feels having discovered his own
immortality.
“It’s a funny thing when you think you’re dead, you’re not terrified of
anything anymore”.<<
