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Article: U.S.-N. Zealand trade ties strong
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 12, 1986
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New Zealand and the United States may have a rocky relationship
in military matters, but their trading relationship is healthier than
ever, New Zealand Ambassador Sir Wallace Rowling said yesterday.
U.S.-New Zealand defense commitments under a 34-year-old treaty
called ANZUS have been strained ever since March, 1985, when New
Zealand barred port entry to a U.S. Navy destroyer believed to be
carrying nuclear weapons.
Last December, New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange asked his
Parliament to ban all visits by foreign ships and aircraft suspected
of nuclear capability. In response, U.S. Defense Department
officials have reportedly threatened to renounce American security
obligations to ...