Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reviewing his life in 1968, McKay suggested that his greatest achievement was to have made the church a worldwide organization. During his presidency, the Mormon rolls expanded from just over 1,000,000 to 2,815,000. He opened five new Temples: in Oakland, Los Angeles, New Zealand, Switzerland and London. The Temples -not to be confused with lower-ranking Mormon meeting houses-enabled Europeans for the first time to perform the sacred Mormon Temple rites, such as "endowment" (a vow to live church principles) or "sealing" of marriages "for time and eternity," without traveling to North America. Missions grew...
...withdrawing from Asia and the Pacific. The United States will keep its treaty commitments. Our policy is neither one of gradual withdrawal from Asia nor of unwarranted intervention in Asian affairs. As a Pacific power, we will remain in the Pacific." Both in Australia and New Zealand, Agnew's last foreign stop, the Vice President said that the U.S. was committed to the defense of the two countries in the event of an all-out attack...
Then Air Force Two was off again, this time bound for Bali. There, the Vice President will rest before his final touchdown this week in Australia and New Zealand...
During the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, Israel set up a dummy movie company in Britain, ostensibly to shoot a film about the New Zealand air force's role in World War II. The Israelis bought four Bristol Beaufighters and a Mosquito with the understanding that the planes would not leave the country. One morning the five planes, cleared to fly as far as Exeter to shoot some battle scenes, took off and kept right on going, later turning up in the Israeli air force. They also purchased three old B-17 bombers, ostensibly for a Honduran airline, then flew...
...plush beach hotel in Bali. Revived by dips in the Indian Ocean, a set or two of tennis and perhaps a few rounds of golf-Agnew packed his clubs, rackets and bathing trunks-the Vice President will fly the final leg of his journey, stopping in Australia and New Zealand and returning to Washington in mid-January...