The World - News from Feb. 28, 1986
A Maori anti-royalist tried to ram a car into Queen Elizabeth II’s motorcade but was intercepted by police, officials in Wellington, New Zealand, said. The Maori, Dun Mihaka, was taken into custody. The man had been held in preventive detention earlier because of a protest during a 1981 visit by Prince Charles and Princess Diana. The Maoris have protested the ceding of Maori rights to Britain more than a century ago, when they fought European settlers.
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