Word: canberras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...September 30th, 1974, in an after dinner speech to the delegates of the Commonwealth Press Union in Canberra, Australia, Lee unabashedly boasted, according to the Far Eastern Economic Review, "Well, in addition to all the conventional pressures we learned from the West, we also have special inquisitional instruments, ancient modes of torture, specially graduated to inflict pain more excruciatingly than that the journalists inflict on the politicians, plus, of course, interest added for grave injury done to the public good. We have also modernized these ancient forms with the addition of electrical and electronic gadgetry, stereophonic sounds to amplify...
...bounty of $30 per Bufo, and the Darwin Conservation Society put up another $7.50. When angry cattle farmers, fearing that the toads would eat the dung beetles that eat disease-spreading flies, demanded that the education department pay a $1,500 reward for each toad, the federal government in Canberra countered that such an absurdly high bounty might lead to the clandestine import of more toads from Queensland. Anticipating that, the Northern Territory promised to fine all Bufo bootleggers...
...military men, and 311 guerrillas-20 of them killed last week. Three Rhodesian air force planes have been lost in the past two months. The government claims that all three losses were due to accidents, but rumors persist that a rebel missile accounted for one of the planes (a Canberra light bomber) and that rifle fire brought down the other two. The guerrillas get funds from the Organization of African Unity and from China and Russia, which also supply arms...
...about an issue even more important than inflation: what direction the country should take for the next decade. Since becoming Prime Minister, Whitlam, 57, has radically changed the course of Australia's foreign policy, making it clear to both the U.S. and Britain, the traditional big brothers, that Canberra will no longer follow the lead of Washington and London. Many of his proposed domestic reforms were stymied, however, by the opposition of the Senate, which rarely initiates legislation but does have veto power. During the first four months of this year alone, the Senate, in which the Liberal...
...popular and congressional support for Richard Nixon's presidency continued to crumble, keeping TIME'S Nation section busy with a fistful of cover stories. But it was also an exceptionally heavy week for our World section. From Canberra to Jerusalem, a shock wave of seemingly global proportions has been rattling the foundations of governments, toppling or threatening world leaders with astonishing regularity. The resignation of West Germany's Willy Brandt and the downfall of Canada's Trudeau government signaled a new high mark on the political Richter scale. This has been a remarkable period for World...