Word: zealander
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...suppress evidence gathered in the police investigation into the bombing. Greenpeace Chairman David McTaggart denounced the hearing as a "very low level" of justice. Said the conservative French daily Le Quotidien de Paris: "After smothering the repercussions of the Greenpeace affair, the Socialists are today benefiting from New Zealand justice...
Though Prime Minister David Lange's government denied that there was any deal, suspicions were reinforced by French officials. Defense Minister Paul Quilès confirmed in a TV interview that there had been behind-the-scenes "contacts" between the French and New Zealand governments. Said he: "Allow me to be discreet." That prompted Lange to snap, "It's so discreet that no one in Wellington knows about them." To be sure, questions remained, such as precisely who ordered the action and who carried it out, but the Greenpeace affair seemed to be finally sputtering...
...Hong Kong. In their annual forecast, the economists agreed that East Asia would spend another year in the doldrums. Though the board members expect a slight acceleration of growth rates in South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, they foresee further declines in Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand and New Zealand. Said Edward Chen, a board member and director of the Center of Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong: "I do not see a very bright picture for 1986." Only China, where capitalist-style reforms have helped drive growth to an estimated 12% this year, is expected to expand...
...quite know how to answer. Is China still a communist country? Yes, and it retains many of the hallmarks of a totalitarian state. Can people travel freely from China? That depends on where they live in China. It also helps if they choose an Approved Destination (Australia and New Zealand were among the first countries to be granted this status). In such a poor country, where do people get the money to buy flash cars, clothes and Shanghai apartments? That's complicated. Wealth can be due to luck, corruption or cleverness. China's "peaceful rise" is a brand that...
...first couple of years there I still didn't feel much emotional connection to Anzac Day. It was a day of getting up at 4.30 a.m., making sure my uniform was ironed properly and getting to the service on time. That changed one year when I was in New Zealand for officer training, and our warrant officer told us to meet half an hour earlier on Anzac Day for our own service. There were just six of us Australians, all about 19 or 20 years old, and we had some rum in our coffee. I remember it was very bitter...