Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pacific-and to impress the U.S. Government favorably-in hopes of capturing a piece of the promising civilian business there. Figuring that nonmilitary traffic across the Pacific will continue to boom, Continental has applied for several routes from the U.S. fanning across the ocean to New Zealand and Korea. The awards will be decided, probably not before 1968, by the one man most concerned with performance in Viet Nam: the President...
Born. To Peter Snell, 27, New Zealand track champ, who in 1962 broke three world records in eight days; and Sally Turner Snell, 24: their first child, a girl; in Auckland, New Zealand...
...come here to band ourselves against any people or nation," asserted Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman last week to some 80 delegates from Japan, Malaysia, Nationalist China, Australia, New Zealand, South Viet Nam, the Philippines, Thailand and South Korea. Rather, their purpose in gathering in flag-festooned Seoul was, he said, "an alliance for the advancement and prosperity of our peoples...
...four of ASPAC's members already have combat troops in the field in South Viet Nam: South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and, of course, South Viet Nam itself. Last week the Philippines made it a majority. Both houses of the Philippine Congress approved the assignment of a 2,000-man Philippine force to Viet Nam. The units, one of engineers and one of security troops, are already in training and will likely report for duty next month...
...least of the problems is that the contractors stand to lose many of the hard-working desert veterans, who have a habit of settling where the job takes them. Cogefar, another Milan company, is about to begin a $56 million tunnel-boring job for a hydroelectric plant on New Zealand's Tongariro River. Many of the 400 skilled GH Insabbiati flying out to do it will probably never return to Italy...