Word: zealanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President George Bush was in Paris, where he held what he called "warm and friendly" talks with France's new Socialist President Francois Mitterrand (see WORLD). Secretary of State Alexander Haig returned to Washington after a two-week trip that included stops in Peking, Manila and Wellington, New Zealand, where he sought to solidify America's ties with its allies in the Pacific. Special Envoy Philip Habib was still shuttling in the Middle East. At home, however, a honeymoon tolerance of the Administration's shaky start in foreign affairs was ending. Some barbed questions were being asked...
...briefing in a New Zealand bar boomerangs in Washington...
...flap began at a hotel bar in Wellington, New Zealand. State Department Spokesman Dean Fischer and Politico-Military Affairs Director Richard Burt, who were accompanying Haig on his two-week swing through the Pacific, asked Bernard Gwertzman of the New York Times and Karen Elliot House of the Wall Street Journal to join them for drinks. With Fischer glancing at notes, the two aides blamed Kirkpatrick for fouling up negotiations on the U.N. resolution. They claimed she ignored instructions from the National Security Council and initially supported a resolution that called for economic sanctions against Israel, urged nations to review...
Picton, New Zealand...
Auckland, New Zealand...