Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these nightmarish conditions will take tough, well-trained troops, and last week the U.S. and its allies were quietly preparing such a force. A token group of Australian infantrymen last week took station at Bienhoa airbase-part of a joint 1,000-man Australian-New Zealand contribu tion to the war effort. Two thousand South Koreans are already in Viet Nam, and Seoul still echoes with rumors of another 15,000-man South Korean combat force being readied for Viet Nam service...
Hamilton, New Zealand...
...Ombudsmen are officers, in Scandinavian countries and New Zealand, to whom a citizen with a grievance against the government can turn for intercession and relief...
...Kansas' Jim Ryun, 18: a 3-min. 58.3-sec. mile, fastest ever run by a high-schooler and only 4.2 sec. off the world record held by New Zealand's Peter Snell; in a meet at Wichita. Passing the three-quarter-mile mark in 3 min. 2 sec. Ryun sprinted the last quarter in 56.3 sec., clipped 3.7 sec. off his own high school record set last month...
Members of the team at various times were Thomas F. Conlon, 40, now head of the State Department's Australia and New Zealand desk, but between 1960 and 1962 a Vietnamese-speaking official of the U.S. embassy's political section in Saigon; Earl J. Young, 34, an AID representative in South Viet Nam between 1963 and last February; Lieut. Colonels Thomas M. Wait, 40, and Rolfe L. Hillman Ir., 41, both veteran U.S. Army advisers in South Viet...