Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Environmentalists praised Japan's actions but noted that the reduction in drift-net use was much less sweeping than the ivory ban. Said New Zealand Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer: "Any drift netting in the South Pacific is unacceptable...
Here's a thought: Now that the United States was awarded the America's Cup again, do you think New Zealand will get steamed enough to spring a surprise attack on Easter Island...
Baverstock will begin a rehabilitation program in three months, and plans to spend next summer in California working out with sophomores Brian Enge and Jeremy Amen. Since Baverstock spent last spring in New Zealand, he will be eligible to return to the 1990 squad as a secondsemester senior...
Lange will be best remembered in the U.S. for his government's decision to ban nuclear-armed or -powered ships from New Zealand's harbors, a move that caused a major rift with Washington and led to the suspension of New Zealand from the ANZUS alliance. That rupture seems unlikely to close soon. Palmer said he plans no changes in domestic or international policy...
...addition to enraging environmentalists, the drift netters have drawn protests from commercial fishermen around the world. Americans and Soviets complain that the nets kill large numbers of sea trout and salmon, a charge the Japanese deny. Australia and New Zealand, concerned that Japanese and other Asian fishermen were catching too many albacore tuna in the South Pacific, recently outlawed drift nets within 200 miles of their shores. The two countries have offered the services of their navies to smaller Pacific nations that support...