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 WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - New Zealanders went to the polls Saturday in an election that could redefine the country's policy on nuclear weapons and its relationship with the United States.
National Party leader Don Brash, a 64-year-old economist and former central bank governor, has said he would be prepared to dismantle New Zealand's 20-year-old nuclear-free laws to help prepare the way for a free trade deal with Washington — although he first would seek approval for the move in a referendum.
Brash also would scrap a raft of special privileges for the indigenous Maori people. He has criticized the measures for the impoverished Maori as "state-sponsored separatism."
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