Word: australia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tourists came back from a water-polo match to report that the public-address system in its English version (Russian, French, and English are the official languages of the Games) would announce that such and such a player penalized with a time expulsion was being "exploded." "Vanderfleet of Australia has been exploded," a sepulchral voice would announce to the spectators...
...other national leaders would be invited. In the end, alongside the Shah's widow Farah and their four children, the only foreign dignitaries who attended were former President Richard Nixon, exiled King Constantine of Greece, U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Alfred Atherton and diplomats from Britain, France, China, Israel, Australia and Morocco. At al-Rifai Mosque, the Shah's silk-shrouded body was placed on its right side by Crown Prince Reza, with its head resting on a pillow of sand, according to Shi'ite custom. On his deathbed the Shah had asked to be buried ultimately...
Sidney Verba '53, professor of Government, last week called Davies "one of the leading political scientists in Australia," adding that Davies had an "international reputation in political psychology...
...wonder, then, that the U.S. has suffered some acute headaches this past year watching its allies-its official friends-in various tests and then deciding which of them is worthy of the name. If Britain was true blue in joining the American shout at the Ayatullah, was Australia less of a friend in refusing to support the Olympic boycott? What of France, of France especially, America's oldest international friend, its Revolutionary War buddy? How could it turn its back on the U.S.? The fact is that France, irritating as its behavior may be, as strictly disloyal...
...counted on stirring competition to help carry their socialist message across the free world. In the U.S. alone, NBC had planned more than 150 hours of television coverage; now viewers will have to settle for brief reports on news programs. But the boycott fell short too, with France, Australia and other allies refusing to join. If President Carter thought the tactic would show the Soviet people the error of Afghanistan, he was mistaken. Today ordinary Soviets claim to see little connection between the invasion and the boycott. Instead, they blame "warmongering" by Carter...