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Date: 1982

From: Lynch, James, 1947-:Collection of original cartoons by James Lynch.

By: Taranaki daily news (Newspaper)

Reference: B-186-095

Description: Shows Prime Minister Rob Muldoon dressed as a Muslim cleric. In the background is the Beehive with a Muslim onion dome on the top. Rows of people face towards Mecca and pray to Allah. Text in the top left reads 'Big lamb deal with Iran signed!' Rob Muldoon reports that in the end they got a good deal, praise be to Allah, after being obliged to make a few concessions. Context: Iran had just recently become an officially Islamic state and was still something of a pariah nation after the US Embassy seige and hostage- taking of the previous year. But with our EEC quotas shrinking, we were desperate for someone to buy our produce and Iran had lots of oil money. (Context note by cartoonist) Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone on paper, 280 x 360 mm

Date: 1980

From: Lynch, James Robert, 1947- :[Digital scans of cartoons published in the New Plymouth Daily News and the New Zealand Times]

By: Taranaki daily news (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022038

Description: Shows a New Zealander hastily leaving the New Zealand Embassy by the back door as a consignment of New Zealand lamb is pushed through the front door. Context: The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States where 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981, after a group of Islamist students and militants took over the American Embassy in Tehran in support of the Iranian Revolution. (Wikipedia) This was the cartoonist's first-ever published work Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).