Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Canadian visitor Down Under was given a pamphlet from Truth, a right-wing New Zealand newspaper, charging that in 1940 he was "booted out of the Canadian Officers Training Corps for lack of discipline." Not so" he said. "I failed to come up to academic and health standards, and was not considered leadership material." Which may come as a surprise to 21 million Canadians, since today Pierre Elliott Trudeau is their Prime Minister...
...others, besides Indonesia: Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Malaysia, South Viet Nam, Cambodia, Thailand, Singapore, Laos, South Korea and Japan...
...Zealand's Janet Frame, history is a hereditary malignancy that engulfs the present and dooms the future to madness, loneliness and death. Intensive Care, her eighth novel, continues her preoccupation with the subject. At one point, she even spells history "hiss-tree," linking it uncomfortably with Eden's serpent. "All dreams," she writes, "lead back to the nightmare garden...
This is the theme that runs through the novel, a combination of poetry and narrative that culminates in a vision of a utopia in which ideals have metastasized like cancer cells. The place is Waipori City, New Zealand; the time, post-World War III-or maybe IV. In the world's blighted aftermath, conditions require such measures as the Human Delineation Act, which computerizes the population into those who are allowed to live and those who are unnecessary and must die. The latter are officially known as "animals...
...army pension was reduced from $61 to $29 a month. Nonetheless, Vorster has managed to loosen some of apartheid's tight restrictions. He adopted an "outward-looking" policy of establishing trade and diplomatic links with a few black states in southern Africa, and he agreed to allow New Zealand's rugby team, including some native Maoris, to compete in South Africa...