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<text id=89TT2163>
<title>
Aug. 21, 1989: World Notes:New Zealand
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Aug. 21, 1989 How Bush Decides
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 38
World Notes
NEW ZEALAND
A Fretful Farewell
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<p> The Prime Minister's quandary was the stuff of high
political drama: Would David Lange swallow his pride and give
a Cabinet portfolio to his onetime friend turned archrival Roger
Douglas, as his ruling Labour Party demanded? Lange's answer
last week stunned the nation. "I intend to step down," said
Lange, who cited his health as the reason for his resignation.
But most political observers believe Lange quit rather than work
with a man he had forced out of the Cabinet only last December
for pushing economic reforms too far. Ironically, both will
serve in the government of the new Prime Minister, Geoffrey
Palmer, where Lange has accepted the post of Attorney General.
</p>
<p> Lange will be best remembered in the U.S. for his
government's decision to ban nuclear-armed or -powered ships
from New Zealand's harbors, a move that caused a major rift with
Washington and led to the suspension of New Zealand from the
ANZUS alliance. That rupture seems unlikely to close soon.
Palmer said he plans no changes in domestic or international
policy.
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