Word: zealander
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Tomlinson said that another, ason for the referendum was that "we didn't want to be shown up by New Zealand," whose prime minister recently forbade U.S. Navy ships to do there if they have nuclear weapons on board. Prime Minister David R. Lange managed to provoke an international diplomatic brouhaha and effectively dissolve a three-way defense pact with Australia and the United States. Those may be ambitious results for Tomlinson and Cohn to compete with, but hey, what is Harvard all about anyway...
...peace is not for sale," said embattled New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange during a one-day stopover in Los Angeles. Replied a testy U.S. State Department official: "If they deny access to our ships, they are not performing as a responsible ally." The simmering dispute between New Zealand and Washington over the Prime Minister's refusal to allow port calls by U.S. nuclear-powered or nuclear-equipped vessels heated up last week as Lange visited first the U.S. and then Britain...
...speech to California businessmen, the burly Prime Minister said he had been told by a Washington official that the U.S. had instituted a "drastic scaling down" of military cooperation with New Zealand. On the list of cuts: joint military exercises, some intelligence sharing and U.S. training of New Zealand military officers. According to Lange, the cuts threatened the capacity of his country to maintain its military surveillance in the South Pacific, which in turn might affect the ANZUS defense pact...
...British leader continued to act like a personal cheerleader for the President at her final press conference. Thatcher expressed her displeasure at New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange's decision a month ago to refuse port access to U.S. ships that might be carrying nuclear weapons. Lange's announcement has prompted the Reagan Administration to review its ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand, U.S.) defense pact for the southern Pacific. Thatcher announced that for security reasons, Great Britain, like the U.S., would continue to refuse to say whether its ships entering New Zealand ports carried nuclear weapons. "I hope (New Zealanders) would...
Lange made headlines recently when he refused to let a U.S. destroyer dock in New Zealand because the Navy would not carrying nuclear weapons...