Word: australia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stood guard and were positioned in the nearby bush. Commissioner Edgard Pisani, 66, had been sent from Paris to try to quell the violence that by week's end had left twelve people dead and about a dozen others injured in the island territory 750 miles east of Australia, which was annexed by France in 1853. Pisani's mission is also to find a solution within two months that is acceptable to the factions that are warring over the issue of independence from France...
...Most tourists are Americans, typical American tourists of middle aged couples," Sanks says. He added that most foreign tourists seem to come from Australia...
Mazda's U.S. venture will bring it closer to Ford, which already owns 25% of the company. The Mazda GLC sedan is marketed by Ford in Australia and New Zealand as the Laser. The proposed Michigan plant will probably put 3,500 people to work in an area of high unemployment. By the end of 1988, the factory could be turning out vehicles at the rate of 240,000 annually. Ford is expected to buy some of the cars and may put the Mustang name plate on them. Fast-growing Mazda has been crimped by import restraints that limit...
Harold Bohtho of Monash University in Australia has been offered a tenured position in pre modern Japanese history, said Department Chairman Edwin A. Cranston...
...AUSTRALIA. In 1982 and early 1983 the Australian economy was virtually stagnant. But in the twelve-month period ending last June, production suddenly spurted by 10%, its best performance in 25 years. About a quarter-million jobs were created, and unemployment fell from 10% to 8.8%. Said Peter Drysdale, executive director of the Australia-Japan Research Center at the Australian National University in Canberra: "Australia is moving from a spectacular recovery into a period of solid and sustained growth...