Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coup was staged by native Fijian officers who objected to last month's election victory by the coalition of Labor and National Federation parties, which is dominated by Fijians of Indian descent. Although native Fijians have controlled the government since the country's independence in 1970, they make up only 47% of the population. Indians, who arrived in the 19th century as sugarcane workers, now constitute...
Fiji's relations with its neighbors have suffered a setback. Air New Zealand has suspended flights to Fiji, and labor unions in Australia, whose government refused to recognize the interim military council, have forced its % planes to fly empty into Fiji before taking normal loads out. Maritime unions in both countries have also banned the handling of cargo going to Fiji. No matter what happens now, the island paradise will never again be quite the same...
With a huge lead in the polls, Margaret Thatcher' s Tories begin the election campaign touting the country' s "revived spirit," while Labor depicts a land of Dickensian misery and the Alliance aims for the middle. -- South Africa' s Conservative Party, the new official opposition, makes State President P. W. Botha sound like a moderate. -- Fiji faces an uncertain future...
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres' Labor Party failed last week to muster enough votes in the 120-seat Knesset to force Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to call early elections. As a result, Peres was thwarted, at least for the moment, in his drive to convene an international peace conference on the Middle East...
...ruling coalition. Rubinstein was particularly incensed over the Likud bloc's frantic deal making with the religious parties, including a Likud promise to support legislation requiring overseas conversions to Judaism to have the approval of the Israeli chief rabbinate, a measure certain to antagonize many U.S. Jews. The Labor- Likud marriage, huffed Rubinstein, was a "two-headed monster ((that)) has reached a dead...