Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard debaters will speak on the morality of nuclear weapons along side Reverend Jerry Falwell and New Zealand's prime minister this Friday at the Oxford Union, a prestigious debating society...
...Reagan Administration, already discomforted by New Zealand's ban on visits by nuclear-armed vessels, has now bombed out with other allies. William Arkin, a nuclear-policy researcher at the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies, leaked a Defense Department contingency plan to station nuclear weapons in seven foreign countries and Puerto Rico if a war seemed imminent. The proposed deployment caused a stir in Canada, Iceland and Bermuda, and would violate a U.S. guarantee not to send nuclear weapons to Puerto Rico. It was not clear if the U.S. had notified any of the countries involved...
Moreover, U.S. policymakers are worried about the strides of antinuclear movements elsewhere. Japan officially forbids the entry of nuclear weapons into its ports but does not insist in practice that the policy be scrupulously followed. Beyond that, the U.S. fears that New Zealand's stand could refuel the antinuclear movement in Western Europe, where West German, British, Dutch and Belgian activists are trying to bar the continued deployment of U.S. medium-range cruise and Pershing II missiles...
...result has been a series of U.S. threats, both explicit and implied, to suspend military cooperation with New Zealand if Lange refuses to give in. Such an approach may raise hackles Down Under even more. New Zealanders resent any kind of pressure, from Australia or the U.S.; Australians are only slightly less sensitive to strong-arm tactics, wherever they may come from. New Zealanders are divided in the current national debate. Recent polls show that while 58% of the New Zealand population of 3.2 million opposes visits by nuclear-armed warships, 59% would not be troubled by calls by ships...
...more than 450 restaurants in the inexpensive-to-moderate price category. Says Advertising Director Don Lum: "We've seen a significant increase in fish consumption in the past two years." Their expanded line offers for between $5 and $8 complete main courses such as shrimp, lobster, crab, salmon, New Zealand whitefish, orange roughy, John Dory, hoki, halibut and swordfish. And the Dallas-based TGI Friday's Inc., with 104 locations in 31 states, now has 20 to 25 fish dishes on its menu, compared with two or three in 1977. Says Greg Dollarhyde, vice president of finance for Friday...