Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eugene Sherry, a former Harvard-affiliated physician convicted of rape in 1981, was granted permission Monday to freely leave the United States and return to his homeland of New Zealand...
Sherry travelled to New Zealand before serving his sentence, and upon returning to the United States, had failed to obtain a proper visa, according to Gaynor. Because of this, after completing his sentence on Monday, Sherry was put in the custody of immigration officials under the charge of not being law-fully admitted into the country, precipitating the hearing to deport him, Gaynor said...
Sherry will not be able to return to New Zealand and will also be able to come back to the United States. If deported, however, Sherry would not have been able to return to the United States without a waiver from the Attorney General, "which is highly unlikely," Gaynor said, "because the rape conviction involves moral turpitude...
John Paul showed his support for the war-weary Christians of Lebanon by giving them a Cardinal, Antoine Pierre Khoraiche, 75, Patriarch of the Maronite Rite. Thailand and the Ivory Coast got their first Cardinals, and Oceania was represented by New Zealand's Thomas Stafford Williams. If the Pope chose a progressive archbishop in Bernardin, he also picked a conservative: Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, 47, of Medellin, Colombia, is president of the bishops' conference in Latin America and an outspoken foe of priests who have become active in leftist politics...
...past month, Portugal and New Zealand, as well as France, have tried to attack inflation directly by imposing controls on wages, prices or both. Though attractive in principle, such policies are difficult to administer in practice. To make them work, governments must monitor hundreds of thousands of wage and price decisions. Moreover, past experience with controls, including the wage-price freeze imposed by President Nixon in 1971, shows that inflation returns once the restrictions are lifted. Says Economist Clifford Hardin, who was a member of the Cost of Living Council that oversaw Nixon's freeze: "Wage and price controls...