Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midst of New Zealand's election campaign, Laborite Prime Minister Wallace ("Bill") Rowling observed that if Opposition Leader Robert Muldoon wanted to know "why he is so unacceptable to many people, a quick glance in any mirror would give him the answer." Perhaps Rowling should have looked at the mirror himself. Last week, as he prepared to hand over power to Muldoon's triumphant New Zealand National Party, the outgoing Prime Minister allowed that he felt as though he had "been run over by a bus." In an upset, the conservative Nationalists won a 19-seat majority...
Americans once assumed that all the world was evolving, or should be, toward Wisconsin or New Zealand-style democracy. We now know it is not happening any time soon, certainly not in South America...
...Kissinger took time out from his U.N. rounds to attend the quiet burial of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, the alliance founded in 1954 to contain the expansion of Communist regimes in Southeast Asia. He and the representatives of the active members of SEATO-Britain, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines and Thailand-decided that the alliance, "in the light of the new situation in the Southeast Asian region, should be phased out." Thailand and the Philippines were becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the treaty at a time when they had begun to seek improved relations with Peking, and with Hanoi emerging...
...size (181,000 sq. mi.) and population (almost 3 million), Papua New Guinea is roughly equivalent to New Zealand, but there the resemblance ends. The population is scattered among more than 700 tribes, each of which has its own dialect. Most of the people hack out meager livings as subsistence-level farmers in remote rural areas. The country has no railroads and few paved roads, relying for transportation on bush pilots and 476 air strips...
Amnesty officials estimate that there are upwards of a million political prisoners in the world, with almost every nation bearing some of the guilt. Only Holland, the Scandinavian countries, West Germany, New Zealand. Canada, and Australia have no political prisoners (Amnesty would classify England in this group if it weren't for uncertainties over the situation in Northern Ireland). The countries with the greatest number of political prisoners now are Chile. South Africa, Rhodesia, and Indonesia. Up until its liberation last spring. South Viet Nam would probably have won the prize for political repression...