Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down with trapping. It has eaten my beans and peas and has stripped the bark and branches off 50 young trees. It can stand up on its hind feet and reach more than two feet into the air to snap off small limbs." The voracious creature that stirred the Australian orchardist to complain to the Maitland Pastures Protection Board seemed fearsome indeed. But it was easily identified. After having been nearly down and out Down Under, the wild rabbit is staging an ominous and increasingly destructive comeback...
Still, tentative moves are beginning to be made, with the U.S. often acting as a catalytic agent to bring them together. In the drafting of the Manila Conference communique, said an Australian official, without resentment, "It was the U.S. all the way, from impregnation to gestation to delivery." Thanks largely to the protective canopy of U.S. power, the nations of the region enjoy the freedom to develop their own way. The value of that canopy was not lost on Asia's nations last week when Red China reported that it had launched a nuclear missile and may soon...
...edge for the Viet Cong. Subtract them from the picture and Saigon could handle the situation by itself." If not, highly mobile U.S. troops could make a swift return. Actually, the point was inserted more for bargaining than anything else. "This isn't much of a timetable," an Australian diplomat conceded, "and Gromyko will see the weak spots. But at least it gives him something to take around to other Communist countries...
...motorcade wound slowly through the streets, two brothers, aged 24 and 22, dashed out and dumped two plastic bags full of red and green paint over the windshield and top of the President's limousine. While Australian police hauled the men away, paint-spattered Secret Service Agent Lem Johns, who was unsure of what was happening, shouted to the President's driver, "Go...go...go...!" When the car drew up at Melbourne's Government House, the Johnsons emerged undaunted and undaubed (all the windows had been closed). "Well," cracked Lyndon, "we got a colorful reception...
...here." "You do, you do!" several men shouted in reply. Most Aussies plainly agreed. Cheering and waving, more than a million of them lined Johnson's eight-mile route into the city. But as his motorcade approached Hyde Park, several hundred demonstrators were waiting. They were well prepared. Australian intelligence reported that they had intercepted messages from Melbourne Communists advising sympathizers in Sydney on how to disrupt the President's visit. They tried hard enough, pelting the motorcade with toilet paper, black streamers and bomb-shaped balloons, screaming "Go home, fascist pigs!" and trying to hurl themselves...