Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...breaks went the Americans' way. Evander Holyfield, 21, an unheralded, hard-slugging light heavyweight from Atlanta who had won his first three bouts by knockouts, suffered a bizarre loss to a thoroughly outclassed Kevin Barry of New Zealand. Holyfield was disqualified for striking a blow after the Yugoslav referee had ordered a break. Never mind that the punch knocked out Barry; never mind that Barry had been fouling Holyfield and was on the verge of disqualification; never mind that Holyfield probably could not have heard the referee's command over the crowd noise. But do bring to mind...
...boot. Capacity crowds packed the Fair banks Ranch Country Club, transformed into a picture-book endurance course, and the venerable Santa Anita race track's show jumping and dressage ring. With precise rounds in the individual three-day event, Mark Todd, an Auckland dairy farmer, galloped to New Zealand's first equestrian gold medal (the U.S.'s Karen Stives and Britain's Virginia Holgate took silver and bronze). Team dressage, which tests a horse's memory and manners, went to West Germany, followed by Switzerland and Sweden. Touch of Class led a disciplined U.S. squad...
When last week's journey by Secretary of State George Shultz to Wellington, New Zealand's capital, was first planned, it was expected to be no more than a routine review of regional affairs with colleagues from Australia and New Zealand. The occasion for the visit was the annual meeting of signatories to the ANZUS treaty, a security alliance formed by the three nations in 1951 to defend the South Pacific. Instead, Shultz found himself embroiled in a conflict with friends. Only the day before, New Zealand's Labor Party had trounced the long-ruling National Party...
Such a ban has been a longstanding Labor Party goal. Even though fewer than a dozen U.S. warships, some nuclear powered, put in to New Zealand's ports each year under the terms of the ANZUS treaty, many of the country's 3.1 million people fear that harboring such vessels will invite attack in the event of a war between the superpowers. The U.S., however, believes this continued access to the ports is necessary because of the growing Soviet presence in the southwestern Pacific. The use of air and maritime facilities in Viet Nam, most notably the former...
This issue, along with New Zealand's economic difficulties, was one of several debated in a keenly fought election. Unemployment is nearly 5%, high by the nation's standards. Although inflation is down to 4.1%, from a high of 16% in 1982, the country is saddled with a foreign debt of $6.1 billion and a budget deficit of nearly $2 billion. After Labor's victory, forecast by a major preelection public-opinion poll, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand suspended nearly all trading in foreign currency to prevent a run on the New Zealand dollar (then worth...