Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Northeast and parts of the Midwest, the Star represents a major invasion by Australian Publishing Baron Rupert Murdoch. Now 42, Murdoch inherited a small Australian daily from his father in 1953 and built it into a worldwide publishing empire: eleven magazines and more than 80 newspapers in Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain. Murdoch's major acquisitions include Britain's Peeping-Tom Sunday News of the World (circ. 6,000,000) and the London Sun (circ. 3,000,000), which was failing until he took it over in 1969 and applied his formula: cheesecake, crime coverage...
...skills as he is under marching orders to proceed to Canada with Wife Anne on an official visit, then to muster with Queen Elizabeth (to whom he was made a personal aide-de-camp on New Year's Day) in the Antipodes for a tour of New Zealand...
...nowhere near over. Roche has filed two appeals from the order: one asks that the order itself be overturned "for want of natural justice"; the other demands compensation from the government for the enforced price cuts if the company wins the main case. Meanwhile, the governments of Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and five European countries are beginning their own investigations of Valium and Librium prices. Because no U.S. Government agency now has the power to regulate drug prices, there are unlikely to be any effects on U.S. prices. Elsewhere, controversy is likely to rage for years, during which Roche...
...Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, reaffirmed Orthodoxy's support for the ecumenical movement but urged it not to be overly preoccupied with "sociopolitical aims." The W.C.C.'s campaign against racism has raised other hackles, too, by blacklisting some 1,000 firms in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand for investing in or trading with South Africa. The W.C.C. itself sold $ 1.5 million worth of holdings in just such firms (out of its $3.5 million portfolio) as a "symbolic" gesture, but noted that member churches might well use their interest in such companies to influence policies instead...
...Zealand has sent a frigate, with Minister of Mines and Immigration Fraser Colman on board, into the testing area, where it has observed the tests from an upwind position. French warships have not disturbed it. A private schooner, the Fri, also sailed into the area to protest, but French sailors boarded it and hauled its skipper, David Moodie, 27, of Sausalito, Calif., and his 15 passengers off to the island of Hao. In Hiroshima, 130 victims of the first atomic blast marched in silent protest...