Word: zealander
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...excuse of self-defense was entirely beside the point," said Bok of the French sinking of a Green-peace ship off of New Zealand...
...support an Australian proposal to establish a "contact group" to urge South African President P.W. Botha to negotiate with black leaders. But she remained opposed to sanctions. "They don't work," she said. Even so, prospects for eventual compromise on this week's final declaration appear good. Said New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange: "It will take time, but there will be a meeting of the minds...
...view of the Socialists as recent disclosures about the government's role in the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, in which a crew member was killed. For weeks the government denied any involvement in the bombing of the ship, which had been docked in the harbor of Auckland, New Zealand, before it was to lead a protest against French nuclear testing on Mururoa Atoll. Under persistent pressure from the French press, Premier Fabius was eventually forced to admit that French intelligence agents had indeed been ordered to blow up the ship. The scandal tarred the government with suspicions...
...Cretaceous clay deposited during roughly the same period that the dinosaurs became extinct. They were seeking to identify the nature of the object responsible for the impact. Because noble gases collect in carbon particles, the scientists isolated the carbon in Cretaceous sediment taken from Denmark, Spain and New Zealand. To their surprise, all three samples contained carbon that had been deposited at a rate 10,000 times as great as carbon in the layers immediately above and below them. It was bunched together in the fluffy patterns characteristic of common soot. Says Anders: "It's like the stuff...
Last month, Jernigan played in the annual Boston 'Eyeopener' tournament. Other tournaments have taken him farther from home; last year he spent a semester in New Zealand playing the World Squash Championships for the U.S. team...