Word: zealanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Basically, Lambeth had adopted a live-and-let- live approach to the question of women in the hierarchy. Seven of the ; Anglican branches allow women priests, and the diocese of Massachusetts last February toppled the final sex barrier by installing a woman, Barbara Harris, as bishop. Canada and New Zealand are prepared to follow suit...
...Zealand have been feuding since 1984, when Prime Minister David Lange kept an election promise to ban American nuclear-armed and -powered ships from his country's ports. In effect, that killed the ANZUS Security Treaty linking Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. in defense of the southern Pacific...
...contending that New Zealand had violated its responsibilities to the alliance, stopped sending naval vessels on port calls there and suspended security guarantees and high-level contacts with the Wellington government. The treaty remained technically in effect, however, and the U.S. hoped Lange might come around. But last week, in an address at Yale University, he declared that New Zealand might soon officially withdraw from ANZUS. "Between the U.S. and New Zealand, the security alliance is a dead letter," said the Prime Minister, who was snubbed by Washington during his visit to the U.S. "The basis of the alliance...
...issue goes well beyond New Zealand. Washington fears for its other security alliances if nuclear ships are denied port privileges. State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler said withdrawing was New Zealand's "prerogative." But, she added, the fault was Wellington's refusal to welcome the U.S. Navy, not Washington's refusal to consult...
When no Hollywood studio came through, Feldman and Meeker got backing from a New Zealand company, Lion Screen Entertainment Ltd. The producers put up $1 million of the film's $13 million budget themselves. They hired Larry Peerce (Goodbye Columbus) to direct and chose Chiklis, a little-known New York actor, for the lead role after auditioning more than 200 aspirants. Following several delays, shooting began last...