Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Charles who?" asked the singer, forgetting for the moment the Prince's warm admiration of her top notes. Her agent hastily explained, his client hastily accepted, and this week, Kiri Te Kanawa, originally from New Zealand and lately of the Royal Opera, will let her shimmering soprano loose on a three-minute anthem by Handel. She will be accompanied by a trumpet soloist and 95 other musicians drawn from three orchestras in which the bridegroom has taken a particular interest...
...couple, Their Royal Highnesses: The Prince and Princess of Wales, was published in England last month. "They hadn't spent as much time as any of us might have done with the person we were going to marry." Off on a five-week tour of Australia and New Zealand, Venezuela and the U.S., the Prince saw his Lady's face on newsstands and TV screens all around him and spoke to her frequently by phone. "It was the ultimate case of absence makes the heart grow fonder,' " insists Holden. "He was falling in love with her from...
...occasion was the New Zealand Rugby Football Union's invitation to the South African Springboks, a world class team whose predominantly white composition (just one black) all too clearly reflects its government's views on racial segregation-and inflames controversy far beyond the realm of sport. Demonstrating against South Africa's policy of apartheid, New Zealanders last week staged their worst civil disorders since the Viet Nam War. A crowd of 3,000 tried to storm Parliament, while others occupied bridges, fought with police, and dumped broken glass on playing fields...
...Springbok tour placed New Zealand's Prime Minister Robert Muldoon, 59, in a tough political dilemma. If he approved the South Africans' visit, he risked censure abroad as well as violent clashes at home between anti-apartheid groups and rugby diehards. But opposing the tour also carried liabilities: Muldoon and his National Party, currently holding just 48 of the 92 seats in Parliament, face an uphill election battle in November; banning the Springboks might well outrage numerous rugby fans among the voters...
...indefinitely from international competition for using drugs, though he may still be able to compete in U.S. meets. The International Amateur Athletic Federation, the world governing body for track and field, said that urine tests taken last Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 at the Pacific Conference Games in New Zealand showed that Plucknett and another athlete-Gael Mulhall of Australia-had traces of anabolic steroids in their blood. Plucknett won the discus throw at the games, and Mulhall, now also under suspension, won the women's shotput and discus. Plucknett's coach denies that he used the drugs...