Word: australian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Frankfurt, an overstuffed gray travel bag left unnoticed beside a trash can in the international airport blew up next to a row of metal chairs. West German police found the mutilated remains of three victims, who were eventually identified as a Portuguese man and two Australian children. Another 42 were injured, including one American. Police had no clues to the identity or motive of the bomber...
...least that is the domestic credo of Rachel Ward, 27, and Bryan Brown, 37, who met three years ago while filming The Thorn Birds for TV and ended up turning their onscreen marriage into the real thing. When Rosie made three, nine months ago, the English actress and Australian actor began scheduling their professional work in relays. Ward just finished filming Fortress, an Australian survivalist epic for HBO in which she plays a school marm who is kidnaped and imprisoned along with nine of her charges. "It's Picnic at Hanging Rock meets Lord of the Flies," says Ward...
...catfish to South ; American water hyacinths, southern Florida has suffered through many invasions by persistent foreigners threatening to displace native flora and fauna. The vulnerable peninsula, devasted last month by wide-ranging brush fires, continues to be under attack, this time by alien trees: the Brazilian pepper and the Australian pine and Melaleuca, all amazingly prolific and fast spreading. Laments Julia Morton, a University of Miami botanist: "These trees are entirely too healthy. They don't have natural enemies here...
...often true, the incursion of aliens was abetted and, in some cases, initiated by well-intentioned but misguided horticulturists. When the Australian pine (Casuarina equisetifolia) gained a foothold in Florida around 1920, landscapers adopted it as a windbreak and hedge. Casuarina rapidly established itself at the edges of canal banks and natural waterways; along the southwest coast of the 1.5 million-acre Everglades National Park, the pine's shallow roots are now so dense that they are destroying the sandy beaches on which the threatened loggerhead sea turtle lays its eggs...
Efforts to stem the arboreal tide have been futile. Stymied by a small budget, the National Park Service so far has been limited to spraying herbicides on some stands of Australian pines and attacking Melaleuca by slashing it with machetes and filling the cuts with toxic chemicals. "It's dire," says Marjory Stoneman Douglas, president of Friends of the Everglades, a conservation group. "If nothing is done, these trees are going to take over completely...