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That will not be easy. California is perched on the so-called "Ring of Fire," -an earthquake-and volcano-prone region that circles the Pacific Basin. It reaches as far south as New Zealand on the west, north through Japan, across the Aleutians and down the coast of the Americas on the east. Only recently have geophysicists begun to understand what stokes the ring's "fires." The seismic activity, they think, is the result of slow, creeping movements of the Pacific Ocean floor against the continental margins that surround it. In California, these movements have produced a distinctive, local...
...ballerina of international repute. Thus when the company finally got up the courage to assault the U.S. for a ten-week tour, Co-Directors Peggy van Praagh and Robert Helpmann cajoled Rudi Nureyev into appearing as guest artist in his own staging of Don Quixote; they also imported New Zealand-born Lucette Aldous of Britain's Royal Ballet to dance the heroine...
...common problems. Thailand and Malaysia send out joint patrols to clean up small but persistent insurgent bands along their common border. Thailand and South Viet Nam have formed alliances with Cambodia, albeit extremely uneasy ones, in Phnom-Penh's fight against North Vietnamese invaders. Australia and New Zealand have ceased, as U.S. Consul-General in Osaka Jerome K. Holloway puts it, "to think of themselves as islands somewhere in the English Channel," and are rapidly extending their defense role in Asia...
Finally, his secretary put the call through, and he spoke briefly to Burr, ending by wishing him a pleasant fishing trip in New Zealand. He walked over to his wife, said, "Well, that's that. It's done," and kissed her. His three secretaries, somewhat teary-eyed, stood in the doorway as he explained to them solemnly that he could not have told them anything earlier. Then he said he needed a vacation...
Seavers' basic job is importing, from any place in the world. Over the last four years in Vietnam, for example, he has brought in rice from Mexico, timber from Taiwan, and evaporated milk from New Zealand...