Word: australia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House lawn and try to look as if, despite the policy differences separating their countries, the two have really become fast friends. Only this time, by all accounts, the feeling was genuine. "The President and Prime Minister hit it off," said a senior Administration official after Australia's Labor Prime Minister Bob Hawke emerged from a two-hour chat with Reagan last week. The personal rapport was evident when the two men appeared together afterward. Said Reagan: "We had a productive session and, more importantly, we've had a chance to put our relationship on a personal...
...Australia's Prime Minister makes a friend in the White House
...More substantively, Hawke assured Reagan, along with Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, that he did not consider himself bound by the rigid foreign policy planks favored by the left wing of his Labor Party. Those planks call for, among other policies, an end to Australia's military aid to Indonesia and resumption of aid to Viet Nam. Indeed, Hawke's main purpose in coming to Washington was clearly to reaffirm the close political and security links that have governed relations between the U.S. and Australia for decades. He also wanted to impress upon...
...somewhat wistful, denial of ever having had anything to do with MacLaine. Then she allowed that perhaps she did some Gerrymandering of the clues to conceal her ex-lover's identity. So still high on the list of suspects is Andrew Peacock, 44, a dashing member of Australia's last Conservative government, who is a longstanding friend of the actress. MacLaine now considers all the fuss a bother. "Affairs of state," she told a pack of sleuthing British reporters, "are more important than the state of my affairs...
...economic entity, greater Los Angeles is world class: if the area seceded, it would have a G.N.P. larger than that of Mexico or Australia. The movie and TV business is only the hot tip of L.A.'s biggest job sector, its service industries, which together employ 882,000 people. There is a muscular side as well, with 869,000 workers in manufacturing, about a third in aerospace and other clean, high-tech industries. But parts of the city could pass for Buffalo. On the waterfront in Long Beach sit stacks of blue and orange cargo containers. In Lynwood, railroad tracks...