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
A Morning’s Journey on December 31, 1969, into the Lagoon at Grand Gaube, a Fishing Village at Cap Malheureux on the Southern Indian Ocean Island of Mauritius Cast of Characters Octavius Antonius Marie (Octave), age 27 An unemployed Creole stone mason who has taken to
Yugoslavia’s drift toward a consumer economy, symbolized by growing car ownership, has transformed the Square of the Republic in Belgrade into a parking lot. It was a wholly typical Saturday on the Terazije. The streets emptying into Belgrade’s prime shopping intersection gave off mingled sounds
Gap Malheureux January 2, 1970 To the island of Mauritius and the fishing settlements along its rocky northernmost extreme of Cap Malheureux dawn comes gently. The sky grays over the stars of the southern hemisphere and the pale, late moon grows insubstantial and thin as
Honolulu December 1, 1969 It’s easy to assume not much has happened this past year in the Samoas, the Polynesian island group divided in the days of gunboat diplomacy and big power bickering at the end of the last century. Astronauts back from
