The reduction of the numto the closing of many courses and The NUS must mount a camthe Soviet bloc."
college level. Such a campaign must utive must also be forced to take up The conference must also be aw soners. groups using the issue to gain a base amongst students, and must resolve are not enough. The fight for a leadership that will go out to the memmentation of these policies is posed LIONS full slate of candidates in these elecwith their behaviour.
The growing dissatisfaction among many students with their Broad *This conference must reject a practice that leads to NUS apologising for the very existence of its international work, and stop our delegates creeping out the back door of Endsleigh Street every time they want to attend an international conference that is being held in one of the countries of This is the conclusion of a minority be presented to the NUS Conference.
The report takes up in detail the practice of the majority of the Execu tive in relation to international work al some cases its camparus nave been macecuate as on souter A rica and Chile. In some cases no work at all has been done, as over Indian political priThe report also sharply questions the conduct of Executive members at international conferences, while recog nising that press reports of NUS delegates behaviour at the 13th European Seminar held in Bucharest last year were untrue. It points to the difficulties of scrutinising the behaviour of NUS deleit is often what our delegate. do not say rather than what they do say that has been the cause of discontent For instance, the communique from the 13th Seminar stated that not only have the socialist countries secured equal rights for women, but they have made it possible for women to enjoy these niguts in practice. Nus Deput President, Alistair Stewart, spoke at the view.
Seminar denouncing the capitalist countries for their exploitation and oppression of women, but made no crigesm aral or tre sockis courmes (although as the minority report points out the average wage of women in Russia is still only 75 percent that of The minority report advocates the rejection of the communique and the cenVAL COULTAS_IMG member of NUS Executive and one of authors of report suring of the NUS representatives who attended the Seminar, because the "overall drift of the official communique "detente and peaceful coexistence" and is one of justifying the policies of uncritical applause of the role of the sover wmon wroreen boncy and a. • relation to women, in domestic policies:
The distinguishing feature of the report compared to past debates in the rejection of any idea that this work should be played down. The minority report throws down the gauntlet to any groupings in the NUS who take this At the last NUS Conference. Sue Slipman, Communist Party member and National Secretary of the NUS, had responsibility for international work removeu mom ner she oress reported is as a victor rot me mocentes Acceptance of the minority report. however, can only be seen as a step forward for all students towards gen uine internationalism.