Word: australia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exodus of refugees from Indochina is a story of broken lives, broken dreams and broken promises. Since the fall of Saigon seven years ago, almost 500,000 boat people have passed through Southeast Asia to find new homes, mostly in the U.S., Western Europe and Australia. But an additional 175,000 refugees still languish in camps in Thailand. Because so many of them lack the skills deemed essential for resettlement elsewhere, they have come to be known in official jargon as "residuals," or people with "no guarantee of movement onward." The worst of these refugee camps...
...deed was done so swiftly and so unexpectedly that rumors still linger in Australia about what really happened. From the day in November 1975 when Governor-General Sir John Kerr sacked Prime Minister Gough Whitlam of the leftist Labor Party and replaced him with Opposition Leader Malcolm Fraser of the Liberal Party, allegations have surfaced that the CIA had a hand in Whitlam's fall. In an article entitled "Dateline Australia: America's Foreign Watergate?" published this week in the quarterly magazine Foreign Policy, University of Delaware Political Scientist James A. Nathan retraces those accusations and other charges...
...doubt, however, among one group of readers about the veracity of Keneally's book: the surviving "Schindlerjuden," who at a reunion in New York last week gave Keneally a warm reception and lavished praise on the work. Said the author with some relief: "As a gentile from Australia, you do wonder if you got it right...
...until 1978 more than 15,000 patients had chymopapain injected into their discs in FDA-approved experiments. The chemical proved to be as successful as a laminectomy in relieving pain: about 70% of patients improved with either therapy. In 1971, chymopapain was approved for use in Canada, Britain and Australia. But a study of almost 100 patients in the U.S. showed that placebo injections were just as effective as chymopapain. That controversial experiment led the FDA to withhold approval in 1974, and U.S. patients began visiting Canada. A new series of trials, begun in 1979, led to the final...
...middle of next year, Drysdale predicted, overall economic output may be falling at an annual rate of 2.7%, its first decline in three decades. Beyond 1983, the outlook brightens again. With a cornucopia of natural treasures, from bauxite to diamonds, Australia can almost certainly overcome its current woes...