Word: australian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Slayton and his NASA coileagues answered the pointed questions, calmly assuring an Australian journalist that Columbia's external fuel tank would not crash and burn outside of Perth, like Skylab two years ago, and responding to a New York journalist by saying. "We are very confident in the crew's training and in the overwhelming likelihood for success...
...entire French rugby team. Further additions are promised -possibly including Lee Trevino, who last month won a tournament in South Africa. As it is, the list is already having an impact. Lutz and Faldo have both declared that they will never again compete in South Africa. An Australian team canceled a cricketing tour there. Several leading members of the Irish rugby side have begged off their team's scheduled South African match. Says Arthur Ashe, the black former tennis star: "This is the next best thing to declaring war on South Africa...
Britons were horrified last month when Rupert Murdoch, the sensation-mongering Australian publisher, bought London's revered though unprofitable Times newspapers. Now another Fleet Street stalwart, the 190-year-old Sunday Observer, has been sold to an improbable new owner. He is Roland ("Tiny") Rowland, the chief executive of a $5 billion. London-based conglomerate called Lonrho Ltd.; his secretiveness and taste for takeovers have led him to be described by a former Prime Minister as "the unacceptable face of capitalism...
...Pentagon has kept the public "psychically numb" to the dangers of nuclear warfarc, Caldicott, an Australian-born physician, said...
...last time Bjorn Borg played tennis in Australia was in December 1974. It was an experience that he and the Australians would rather forget. Borg, then 18, looked more like a weekend hacker than the sport's rising star, losing to unranked players in the first round of two tournaments and bowing out in the second round of another. Borg surveyed the rubble of his fame Down Under and admitted: "I may have let the people down." The people agreed. Wrote the tennis writer for the Melbourne Age: "His reputation in Australian tennis is now not worth much more...