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...port calls by nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed vessels. The proscription applied to all foreign shipping, but it really meant U.S. naval vessels. At first it appeared that the matter could be compromised or finessed without great difficulty. U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz told Lange in Wellington last July that the U.S. would refrain from sending any naval vessels to New Zealand ports for six months or more. According to U.S. officials, the New Zealanders in turn assured the Americans that the problem could be settled to everyone's satisfaction by then...
Finally, on Jan. 21, deliberately seeking a confrontation, the Reagan Administration sent a routine request to Wellington asking for permission for the U.S.S. Buchanan, a destroyer, to call at a New Zealand port during the ANZUS military exercise, named Sea Eagle, planned for March. The Buchanan is a conventionally powered vessel, but since the U.S. refuses, by long-standing policy, to state whether a particular ship is or is not carrying nuclear weapons, the New Zealand ban effectively applied...
...medieval curriculum into the 19th century to suit his taste for math and the sciences. Nor was that all. Albert initiated the Crystal Palace exhibition of modern industry, as of 1851. He fought to abolish dueling. He promoted the Christmas tree. He composed music for the Duke of Wellington's funeral. He managed a lot of little things well. Yet even this doting biographer concedes that he was "excessively conscientious on quite minor matters." Albert died at 42, almost as much from overwork as from influenza...
...Wellington, New Zealand...
Like the title of her 14th book, The Weaker Vessel, the irony in her own life is apparent. She comes from a long literary tradition. Her mother, Elizabeth, has written biographies of Queen Victoria, Wellington, Byron and Elizabeth II. Her father, Frank Pakenham, was an Oxford don and inherited his title, the Earl of Longford. Fraser's siblings are novelists and poets...