Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tricky Loophole. What Australians were so worked up about was the fact that the nation now faces its most serious constitutional crisis since independence in 1901. The trouble began when the House of Representatives approved Whitlam's budget bills and sent them on to the Senate, which is narrowly controlled by a conservative coalition of Fraser's Liberals and the National Country Party. Violating a traditional understanding for the first time in Australian history, the Senate blocked the budget by exercising its power to "withhold supply"-that is, cut off money essential to government operation...
...subject to stringent controls. Three weeks ago, the government abruptly expelled Jacques Leslie of the Los Angeles Times, for allegedly violating the censorship guidelines, thereby making him the sixth Western correspondent to be ousted since June. Last week authorities cut the telex and telephone wires of Reuters and the Australian Broadcasting Corp., for reporting that political prisoners at Delhi's Tihar jail had rioted and staged a hunger strike...
Cornforth, an Australian-born researcher now at the University of Sussex, and Yugoslav-born Prelog, of Zurich's Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, helped define the three-dimensional structure of organic molecules. Cornforth, who has been deaf since boyhood, concentrated on enzymes-the catalysts for chemical reactions in living things-while Prelog studied other organic molecules, including antibiotics...
...badly shored-up gutters of mud and decaying flesh that zigzagged their way across France, driven toward the machine guns of Poperinghe or the Butte de Warlincourt by the abstract decisions of rigid or incompetent staff officers. At 7:30 a.m. on July 1, 1916, 110,000 English and Australian troops started walking toward the rusty thickets of German barbed wire along the Somme valley; a few hours later, 60,000 of them were dead or wounded, and the cries of abandoned men were heard rising from no man's land for days afterward. The Somme offensive...
...extraordinary security measures that shrouded his trip showed how deeply his freedom had been at least temporarily restricted. One symptom of the new nervousness around the White House: the entourage of newspaper reporters jumped from the regular eight or ten to 26, including correspondents from four British and three Australian newspapers...