Word: zealanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...board the shuttle Challenger last week, Physicist Don Lind could not contain his wonder. "The streaks of light we're seeing are really spectacular stuff," he radioed to Mission Control in Houston. The shuttle, about 200 miles above the ocean south of New Zealand, was passing through the top of a green-and-pink aurora--a huge, glowing band of light generated by charged solar particles hitting the atmosphere. It was the first time that the shuttle had actually flown through an aurora...
Journeying to Denmark, another site where the Cretaceous geological record is complete, Walter Alvarez gathered corroborating samples of iridium and received still more from colleagues working at a third site on the other side of the world, in New Zealand. The evidence seemed overwhelming. In 1980 the Alvarez team finally published its results in the journal Science and stirred up some scientific debris of its own. Says Paleontologist Leo Hickey, director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale: "My first thought was this is one of Walter's practical jokes...
That China would not officially welcome American nuclear weapons was hardly surprising, but the announcement rekindled a touchy controversy. Only two months ago, New Zealand denied the U.S. destroyer Buchanan permission to call at its ports when similar assurances were withheld, with the result that joint maneuvers with New Zealand were canceled by the U.S. State Department , officials quickly denied that Peking had received the sort of no-nuke pledge that had been denied to Wellington. "Our policy on ship visits remains the same," said Spokesman Edward Djerejian. "We will neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons...
...They talk different," was his simple though slightly daft explanation. Before Michael Lewis' Air New Zealand flight from London landed in Los Angeles, the flight attendant told passengers traveling on to Auckland to wait in the lounge until an announcement of the flight. Lewis, hearing "Oakland," complied. When a New Zealand official announced what Lewis thought was the airline's connecting flight to Oakland, he boarded and then settled into his seat for the one-hour flight. Less than ten minutes after takeoff, an elderly woman sitting near him commented that they had 13 more hours of flying time...
...productive meeting in U.S.-Canadian history." What particularly delighted Reagan was that after years of often strained relations, Canada and the U.S. were once again getting along and working together on mutual defense. Washington has made no secret of its concern about the "nuclear allergy" that recently led New Zealand to bar from its harbors nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed U.S. Navy vessels. Administration officials believe that Reagan's achievements in Quebec City will strengthen his hand in dealing with other U.S. allies and in disarmament talks currently under way with the Soviet Union in Geneva...