The World - News from March 18, 1985
Ann Martindell, former U.S. ambassador to New Zealand, disclosed that she had banned port calls in that country by nuclear-armed U.S. warships when she was President Carter’s envoy there from 1979 to 1981. Interviewed from Washington by Radio New Zealand, she said she had ordered the ban because of concern that protests were damaging bilateral relations. Prime Minister David Lange has banned port calls by U.S. nuclear-armed and nuclear-powered vessels.
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