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...Zealand, meanwhile, Labor Party Prime Minister David Lange said he had agreed to let U.S. military aircraft land at the Christchurch air base on South Island. The arrangement, which Lange revealed last week under pressure in parliament, seems to make a mockery of his opposition to nuclear-armed ships docking in New Zealand ports. Lange's stand on that issue in 1985 effectively destroyed the ANZUS mutual defense treaty between the U.S., New Zealand and Australia...
...auctioning of quotas has been put into effect by only two countries, Australia and New Zealand. It could create potential complications for a trading nation as large as the U.S. Many U.S.-based importers and retailers believe that auctions could disrupt their steady supply of foreign goods. But advocates of the idea predict that an active secondary market for so-called quota tickets would quickly develop, so that bidders who wound up with excess quota allowances could sell their tickets to others who come up short...
...discovery, Shelton moved quickly to contact the International Astronomical Union's telegram service in Cambridge, Mass., the world's clearinghouse for announcements of new comets, asteroids and other transient astronomical phenomena. Shelton was the first to report the supernova, but, according to Service Director Brian Marsden, a New Zealand amateur astronomer named Albert Jones also spotted it that night. By the end of the day the service had sent telegrams announcing the supernova, officially designated 1987A, to some 150 institutions around the world...
Heading out for the decisive race against New Zealand in the challenger final, he planted a thought with Tactician Tom Whidden: "Do you think the feet of our jibs are strong enough in these seas?" Well, they had been all summer. Naturally, the jib exploded. At the sound of the "boom," as Mainsheet Trimmer Jon Wright recounted for TIME Correspondent John Dunn, "everyone took off." High-wire Bowman Scott Vogel scrambled to pull the bad sail down, Mastman John Barnitt hurried to help. Pitman Jay Brown kept to his halyards. Grinders, tailors and trimmers shot off in appropriate directions, joined...
...Auckland harbor. The resulting international uproar shook Francois Mitterrand's Socialist government and forced the sacking of its intelligence chief and the resignation of its Defense Minister. Unlike Iranscam, however, that was the extent of it. Parliament never pursued it further. Indeed, the two French agents jailed by New Zealand until last July are now regarded as heroes...