Word: zealander
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...America's Cup sank into a Bermuda Triangle of lawyers, loudmouths and bad losers last week. In the best-of-three event, Dennis Conner's Stars & Stripes grimly fended off a rogue challenge for the jug, outsailing New Zealand in a pair of yawners off San Diego. Nearly the only exciting development was the fact that Stars & Stripes flew sponsors' logos, a Cup first. One of them, Diet Pepsi, was an apt choice for a low-calorie affair that was an embarrassing mismatch...
After a 14- month war of words, wits and writs, the U. S. and New Zealand this week compete for the America' s Cup on the water...
Most divisive of all is the place of women. While the Episcopal Church in the U.S. and Anglicans in Canada and New Zealand have ordained 1,257 women priests since the 1970s, much of Anglicanism is not ready for that step and refuses to recognize the ordained women. Such an encroachment of women's lib upon church doctrine is positively "satanic," declared a bishop from Melanesia, where women do not even dine with...
...less by multinational committee since 1959. Now representatives of 33 nations have finally agreed on a treaty to govern development of all natural wealth on -- and under -- the southern land mass. Says State Department Official Tucker Scully, who headed the U.S. delegation at the talks in Wellington, New Zealand: "The treaty is a good balance between protecting Antarctica's ecology and potential commercial...
...eleven other nations agreed on a treaty banning military activity and all nuclear materials there. They and eight subsequent signatories became in effect the continent's government. Members included the countries that lay territorial claim to parts of Antarctica -- Argentina, Australia, Britain, Chile, France, New Zealand and Norway -- as well as the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which do not recognize the sovereignty of any nation on the continent. Among other things, the group regulated scientific investigation and enforced a moratorium on commercial exploitation in the region. Like the original treaty, the new one sidesteps the issue of territorial claims...