Word: australian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hawke and Reagan found themselves on common ground from the outset. Both, for instance, spoke warmly of their days as union leaders. The Prime Minister, who headed the Australian Council of Trade Unions for ten years, and the President, onetime chief of the U.S. Screen Actors Guild, agreed that one of their biggest union problems had been opposition from obstreperous left-wing members. 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...
...rose sharply in Athens in the days following the 1981 earthquake there. Stanford Neurochemist Barchas has found that a high score on the Holmes-Rahe scale is linked to elevated levels of the hormones associated with stress: adrenaline (which scientists have re-christened epinephrine), norepinephrine and beta-endorphin. An Australian study of bereavement has shown that eight weeks after the death of their spouses, widows and widowers have diminished immune responses, leaving them more vulnerable to infection and cancer...
Jeantot, in his black-and-yellow aluminum-hulled cutter prosaically named Crédit Agricole for the bank that sponsored it, beat by an astonishing 28½ days the previous record for a single-hulled boat, set last year by Australian Neville Gosson. This time Gosson was expected to finish fourth among the larger boats. Jeantot's eleven-ton 56-footer even shaved ten days off the previous single-handed circumnavigation record, set in a trimaran by fellow Frenchman Alain Colas in 1973-74. Jeantot's large monohull also set new race records for the fastest noon...
...over a year. These leaked documents were passages from the "National Intelligence Daily," a briefing document published by the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for a small, specially cleared audience in Washington--which included, the President of the United States. These leaked intelligence briefs, published in the Australian newspaper National Times in May and June 1982, have never been made public in the United States. They suggest that the U.S. State Department and President Ford gave their blessing of the invasion of East Timor with the full knowledge that international law as well as American laws were broken...
...Soviet agents in France in early April. In recent weeks Britain, Italy and the U.S. seem almost in a uniformly tougher mood. Australia became the latest ally to act, evicting the Soviet embassy's first secretary on Friday for having "threatened Australia's national security." Bill Hayden, Australian Foreign Minister, said that an accumulation of suspicious incidents since the arrival of Valeri Ivanov in 1981 had led the government to conclude that he was a KGB officer. Explained a British diplomatic source in London: "While the expulsions were not part of a concerted policy or operation, each...