Honolulu March 25, 1970 It is Noumea, the capital of French New Caledonia. A small, bright, and very black Solomon Islander, in town for the South Pacific Commission meeting, shivers in the chill night air despite his unaccustomed suit. “You know what I
A Play in Eleven Scenes Ludhiana, Punjab April 8, 1970 Home is the place whereWhen you go thereThey have to take you in — From Robert Frost’s “Death of the Hired Man” (Introductory note: The Punjab plain, a vast expanse of flat, fertile wheat
Honolulu February 28, 1970 For the British, Fiji has become the white man’s burden with a vengeance, an unprofitable colonial remnant, a disturbing trust that must be honored yet brought to an uneasy independence as the once great power cut its role East
New Delhi February 15, 1970 Pick your step carefully down a crushed cinder path bordered with pink rosebushes that somehow survive the cold north India winter. A patch of sparse green lawn and bare sandstone platform set into a desiccated plain, sunny, brown
Honolulu February 13, 1970 One of my most vivid memories after months of travel in the Pacific Islands is of arriving in Fiji for the first time. When the plane had left the little Polynesian kingdom of Tonga, sunshine sparkled on blue
