Word: australia
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...acre spread near Puerto Triunfo, Escobar kept a private zoo of 1,500 animals, among them a five-ton elephant. He was elected to Colombia's Congress in 1982 as head of his own political party, and is still a Congressman. He is rumored to be in Australia...
...Singapore, government agents recently raided a farmhouse and seized 200 exotic birds, among them grand eclectus parrots, a Melanesian rarity in great demand by collectors. The entire collection of exotic specimens, worth $124,000, was being smuggled from Indonesia to Australia, the U.S. and Europe. In the U.S., a "sting" set up by the Fish and Wildlife Service, an enforcement agency of the Department of the Interior, uncovered a huge, Atlanta-based black market in turtles, lizards, poisonous snakes and migratory birds. From the tiny African nation of Burundi, which has a known elephant population of one, hundreds of tons...
...year old non-registrants emigrate to Australia...
Joel Mass Parkville, Australia...
There are precedents for last week's U.S. decision. In the 1950s, India, Australia and Britain refused to let the court arbitrate specific disputes. In 1970 Canada, fearing a lawsuit by the U.S. on marine pollution, told the court that it would not submit to any ruling on the matter. In 1973 France denied the court's jurisdiction when New Zealand and Australia charged that French nuclear tests in the Pacific violated international law. The Reagan Administration differed from past recalcitrants only in its timing. Says Richard Gardner, professor of international law at Columbia University...