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3• IN DEBATE PRECEDING· HOUSE VOTE· ON· MOTION~ PM ' 
GORTON1 EXTAFF ' MINlSTER · H~SLUCK1 OPPOSITION. LE~OER 
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6• DEPUTY LABOR LEADER' BARNARD (WHO HAS· JUST RETURNED FROM (I) 
VISITOR GRANT TOUR OF USJ DREW MORE H~RSH COMPARISONS1 "CERTAINLY ' MORAL 1 CREDtBlL~TY' OF. SOVIET . UNION (#1 TOTALLY DESTROYED· Btt' PL.A JN. _ . AND · CLUMSY VIOL~TioN· OF : CZECHOSLOVAl< ·IA •S SOVERE:IGH'TY• BUT IT Is· JUST' AS CERT A.IN. AMER I CA .•S I NTERNAT I-ONAL1 ST~TURE HAS· BEEN" COMPROM 0i SEO: av· vI ETNAM ' WAR• . WH :I CH ". IS' VEHEMENTLV . OPPOSED BY MAJORITY MEMBERS ' OF UNITED · NATIONS• IT IS FACT MOST NATlONS· OF WORLD: REGARD: 
SOVIET INTERVENTION IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA IN" S~ME;.LiGHT. AS AMERICAN PROSECUTlON oF· WAR IN VIETNAM• THIS ' COMPROMISING OF. AMERtCA'S· 
MOR~L POSITION ALSO STIGMATISES AUSTRALIAN GOW£RNMENT1 WHlCH 1 HAS' SUPPORTED
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