Word: australia
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...Among those taping statements were the leaders of Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Norway, West Germany, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Canada, Australia and Japan. The entire program was scheduled to be broadcast in the last five countries. Argentina, Brazil, Gabon, Mexico, Oman, South Africa and Togo were among other recipients...
...might suffer severe food shortages next winter. But soon they would undoubtedly line up alternate grain suppliers as they did during the last embargo. That might have a lasting negative impact on U.S. farm exports. Says John Dunbar, Dean of Agriculture at Kansas State University: "Argentina, Brazil, Canada and Australia would all like long-term deals with Moscow. If we are perceived as an unreliable supplier, a lot of our former business with the Soviets could go elsewhere permanently." Adds Clifton Luttrell, chief agricultural economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: "There's no doubt that...
Larry Foley Townsville, Australia...
...Poles have fled to Austria as refugees since last January. In addition, many of the 30,000 Polish "tourists" now in Austria are expected to seek resettlement. Of the 33,000 official refugees, only 6,700 have thus far received immigration visas to enter the U.S., Canada or Australia. Last week the Austrian government suspended a 1972 agreement that permitted Poles to travel to Austria without first obtaining visas. As a Vienna newspaper put it, "The government has decided that this country can no longer serve as the waiting room of the free world, a sort of Ellis Island...
...remote-sensing of the earth. The most successful machine was the big shuttle imaging radar, called SIR-A, which succeeded in making the longest single radar sweep in the history of earth-sensing, gathering one series of pictures over a 10,000-mile-long track, stretching from Spain to Australia...