Word: zealanders
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...interest in a Soviet fishing agreement. In the latest talks the Soviets are more demanding: they are asking for shore privileges and airline landing rights as well as fishing access. Vanuatu, an 80-island nation about 1,000 miles east of Australia and 1,000 miles north of New Zealand, has recently sought closer relations with both Cuba and Libya...
Even more troubling to Western analysts has been the clash with New Zealand that began in 1984 over the U.S.'s right to dock nuclear-powered or -armed ships there. Last week the dispute led the two nations to move toward formally ending their mutual-defense treaty under the ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand, U.S.) alliance. While the U.S. and New Zealand will maintain their military agreements with Australia, they will no longer defend each other. After meeting with New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange in Manila, Shultz declared, "We part company as friends, but we do part company...
...knees during a weekend trip to Floors Castle in Scotland, where Prince Charles once wooed Diana. Like her good friend the Princess of Wales, Sarah Ferguson said yes, but her official betrothal to Prince Andrew had to wait until his mother returned from a trip to Australia and New Zealand. By the time Buckingham Palace released the expected announcement on the Queen's stationery last week, a crowd had gathered outside the gates. Meanwhile, Fleet Street was in a tizzy of breathless speculation that began in January after "Fergie" was invited by the Queen to a week-long New Year...
...that a routine request to import the delicacy (called cervelles and served braised in France's fashionable ! restaurants) drew a protracted silence. "No one seems able to answer our requests," said the importer. Simultaneously, authorities in France's southwestern Pacific territory, New Caledonia, began rejecting other foodstuffs from New Zealand, including 500 tons of potatoes and 60 tons of beef and mutton...
France has also stopped importing New Zealand's canned kiwi fruit, and scattered reports suggest that fish, canned fruits and vegetables may be next on a growing list. So far, French officials have refused to make any comment on the embargoes...