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...recommendations is that Harvard science departments work to develop opportunities at laboratories and field stations around the world—the same should be said for all the Harvard departments. Harvard currently has a villa in Italy and a laboratory in Chile (and a forest in New Zealand). More property would be better, as it would provide students with interesting housing and research opportunities across the world. This investment in international property should be matched by one in international academia. Harvard must not continue to pawn off students on other schools’ study abroad programs, even if it offers...
Auckland police said the explosions were detonated "on the outside of the hull in the area of the engine room." New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange called the bombing a "major criminal act." Lange, who has banned port calls by nuclear-armed or -powered ships, said he would consider sending a New Zealand naval vessel to lead the Mururoa protest. The Rainbow Warrior was one of four ships used by Greenpeace, an international environmentalist group. "Our actions are all peaceful," said Bryn Jones, chairman of the organization's British branch. "We have not in the past provoked this kind...
...faltering economy and a growing Communist insurgency, has denounced the House action as interference in Philippine internal affairs. Says Edgardo Angara, president of the University of the Philippines: "We may be seeing a crucial turning point in the so-called special ties between the U.S. and the Philippines." NEW ZEALAND Tracking the Rainbow Bombers...
...Greenpeace protest ship Rainbow Warrior was sinking in Auckland Harbor after a midnight bombing on July 10, witnesses spotted a figure in a frogman's outfit wading ashore nearby and climbing into a camper. Last week a French-speaking couple traveling around New Zealand in a van were arrested on arson and murder charges in connection with the sabotage, which killed Crew Member Fernando Pereira. Although the couple, identified as Alain Turenge, 33, and Sophie Turenge, 36, claimed to be Swiss tourists, a government spokesman in Berne said that the Turenges "do not exist" in Swiss records. Police have issued...
...Rainbow Warrior had stopped in New Zealand while its crew prepared to lead a protest against French nuclear testing at Mururoa atoll in the South Pacific. After the arrests, New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange observed that the affair had strong political overtones, although there was "no evidence of the involvement of any government." HAITI Baby Doc's Easy...