Word: fiji
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pick up the support of Egypt, Australia, New Zealand and The Netherlands, plus such nonathletic powers as Fiji, Qatar, Djibouti and Saudi Arabia (which had decided not to send a team even before the Afghanistan invasion...
Evidence indicates that if Clark knew his government was about to fall, he did little to avert defeat. His External Affairs minister was absent on a mission; one Member of Parliament was vacationing in tepid Fiji; and the fringe Social Credit party, which held five seats, received no concessions to discourage them from abstaining. As Prime Minister, Clark had the prerogative to postpone the debate until his wayward part members returned or until the Social Credit members could be brought around. The seven affirmative votes would have avoided defeat; Clark exerted no such efforts...
...scattered assembly camps and the Rhodesian security forces to their 42 relatively central military bases until an independent Zimbabwe government is formed after February's majority-rule elections. Monitoring the truce, under the supervision of British Governor Lord Soames, are 1,200 Commonwealth troops, drawn from Britain, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand and Kenya...