Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half of the island* some cargo that a good many cultists might find to be of doubtful value: independence. As Australia's Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and Britain's Prince Charles stood at attention with a crowd of 10,000 in a Port Moresby football stadium, the Australian flag was hauled down for the last time and replaced by the black, red and gold standard of the world's newest nation, Papua New Guinea. Said solemn Michael Somare, 39, a policeman's burly son who is the new Prime Minister: "This is just the beginning...
...capital of Dili. Refugees fleeing the island told chilling stories of heavy casualties and numerous atrocities. The captain of the MacDili, a freighter that has been ferrying refugees to Darwin, described the fighting as "bloody carnage." Estimates of the death toll ranged from several hundred to 2,000. An Australian engineer who fled to Darwin last week said: "Children are being picked up by the feet and their heads smashed against the trunks of trees. Old men and women have been slaughtered...
...chair, including Hunter, Wellesley, Goucher and Wheaton. Last month Smith College, the nation's largest private women's college (2,600 students)-and the school that produced Feminists Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan and Sylvia Plath-installed its first woman president. She is Jill Ker Conway, 40, an Australian who grew up on a sheep ranch and obtained a Ph.D. in history from Harvard. A prime virtue of women's colleges, Conway is persuaded, is that they tend to take women's intellectual abilities and aspirations more seriously than other institutions...
...Malaysia, Australia, South America and the U.S When Peking permits, Rotel will probably offer 30-day tours of mainland China for around $2,000. At prices ranging from about $100 a day for a seven day trip to Rome and Assisi to $2,00( for a 40-day Australian marathon, Rotels are probably the cheapest way available anywhere to see the world...
However he said that part of the Australian program may be integrated with the University's East Asian program, "but it will not be restricted to that program...