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...which wiped out foot-and-mouth disease in the 1920s by a massive extermination program, has stayed clean since then by prohibiting imports of meat and livestock from all diseased areas. Only 14 other countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Canada and a few islands, are also free of the infection. The Soviet Union is now also undergoing a plague of foot-and-mouth disease, which Eastern Europeans fear may spread to their flocks. Some other countries, notably France and Germany, have kept the disease within bearable limits by vaccination...
Denmark devalued less than Britain: 7.9%. It was a half measure intended to help Danish farmers keep their vital outlets for butter and bacon in Britain while penalizing its much larger but import-dependent industries as little as possible. New Zealand, with its whole economy already weakened by falling wool prices, devalued 19.45%. Ceylon devalued 20%, and at week's end tiny Iceland took the biggest...
...India and Pakistan in 1960, the project defines the water rights of the two countries, and will control the seasonal fluctuations of the 1,900-mile Indus and its five tributaries through a system of canals, dikes and dams. The U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, West Germany and New Zealand have committed themselves to supply nearly $1 billion toward the cost...
...surveyed student rights on 20 campuses as an aid to a Colorado College committee assigned to draft a student rights bill. Air Force Academy Associate Professor George H. Janczewski, assigned to work with University of Pennsylvania Provost David Goddard, budgeted the host school's international programs in New Zealand...
...Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy, a former college economics teacher, echoed the charge. Pundit Walter Lippmann adduced a more directly racial argument with a proposal that the U.S. "pull back from the Vietnamese mainland to continental islands inhabited by Western white men"-namely, Australia and New Zealand...