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...trying to calm Soviet fears that Sino-U.S. relations might pose some kind of military threat. It is also possible that Hu, who made the statement while on a visit to Australia, was trying to ensure a warm welcome at his next port of call, New Zealand, where the government has locked horns with Washington over its own ban on nuclear-armed ships. Either way, the decision to delay rather than cancel suggests that both sides will seek a way to resolve the issue...
...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...