Word: australia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...captain this year, Desaulniers has the responsibility of integrating a highly individual game with communal team spirit. And although he took the fall semester off to compete as Canada's top-ranked player in the World Amateur championships in Australia, he has been on campus since the end of November, helping the squad to prepare for Princeton...
Manganese. The Soviet Union and South Africa provide more than 60% of the world's supply of this metal, which is essential in steel production. Australia is a major exporter, but its potential for expansion is limited. Other non-Communist exporters, such as Brazil and Gabon, have either declining exports or unstable internal politics. The Boston consultants call the manganese situation "a cause for some concern" because the possibility of finding substitutes is "extremely limited...
...Carter Administration has been trying to persuade other wheat-exporting nations to cooperate with the embargo and not sell the Soviets the 17 million metric tons of grain eliminated by the U.S. So far, Canada and Australia have given "pretty firm" commitments to go along with the embargo, while Argentina is a question mark. Even if these nations do cooperate, the Soviets may still find other ways to get their grain. Says Verel Bailey, an Iowa corn grower: "The Russians are very effective in manipulating international pipeline supplies. It would not surprise me if a lot of grain starts heading...
...their scattered assembly camps and the Rhodesian security forces to their 42 relatively central military bases until an independent Zimbabwe government is formed after February's majority-rule elections. Monitoring the truce, under the supervision of British Governor Lord Soames, are 1,200 Commonwealth troops, drawn from Britain, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand and Kenya...
...breeziest introduction, but an interesting question. Yet before we can begin to ponder it, Crossley has invited himself to lunch where he proceeds to shatter glasses, describe how he killed his children during his 18 years in Aboriginal Australia, and provide compelling conversation about the methods medicine men have for killing people. (They remove your kidneys while you sleep...