Since he came to power last July, New Zealand's Prime Minister David Lange has resisted U.S. pressure to modify an election promise to close New Zealand's ports to all nuclear-armed or nuclear-powered ships. Such a stand would effectively ban all U.S warships from New Zealand ports, since Washington declines to indicate which of its ships carry nuclear weapons. The matter came to a head last week when Lange refused a routine U.S. request to allow an American naval vessel to call on New Zealand during naval exercises in March. The Prime Minister thus set the stage for a prolonged and potentially...
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