Big Apple?
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Dirty Tricks in the Big Apple?
JEAN-MARIE Tjibaou, Presi dent of the Kanak Socialist Na tional Liberation Front, claims to have been a victim of French “dirty tricks” in New York just prior to his ap pearance before the Fourth Committee of the United Nations General Assem bly. On October 4, the Kanak leader became “extremely ill” following a din ner engagement in Manhattan, and was so sick he was unable to address the committee which specialises in de colonisation matters the following morning.
According to Vanuatu’s UN Am bassador. Robert van Lierop, it is sus pected the FLNKS chief was drugged to prevent his speaking before the UN body. Tjibaou’s health is generally good and he recovered by October 7, when he finally delivered his speech.
An official at France’s UN mission in New York said she knew nothing about Tjibaou’s alleged drugging and its causes, and that she did not know whether there were any French intelli gence agents in New York. □