Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...briefed for his mission. He was apparently unaware that the Soviet Union had been backing revolutionary liberation movements on the continent. Why, some local reporters also demanded, should Africa boycott the Moscow Olympics when four years ago the U.S. had opposed an African Olympic boycott called to protest New Zealand's sporting links with South Africa? Ali fumbled for an answer and found none...
...Hungarians stayed in the Games, and beat the Soviets in a water polo championship that left the pool streaked with the players' blood. In 1976, 28 African nations stayed away from the Montreal Games to protest New Zealand's rugby tour of South Africa. American Sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their gloved fists in black power salutes at the 1968 Games...
...pick up the support of Egypt, Australia, New Zealand and The Netherlands, plus such nonathletic powers as Fiji, Qatar, Djibouti and Saudi Arabia (which had decided not to send a team even before the Afghanistan invasion...
...Maguire herself there was no consolation. She emigrated to New Zealand with her husband Jack in 1977 and there gave birth to a second daughter. She suffered a nervous breakdown, and the homesick family returned to Belfast in less than a year. Perpetual grief led to even more breakdowns-ever deeper mental depression. Last week Anne Maguire finally gave up. She took her own life, slashing her wrists and throat with an electric carving knife...
...athletes dead. Past Games have also been boycotted: in 1956, for example, Spain, Switzerland and The Netherlands withdrew from the Melbourne Olympics as a protest of the Soviet invasion of Hungary. And in 1976, 28 African nations abandoned the Montreal Games as a protest against the participation of New Zealand, a country with strong sports ties with the apartheid government of South Africa...