Word: archipelago
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rebellion are rising in the Philippines, a country that threatens to become a powder keg in the Pacific region. The resentment is directed primarily at the corruption-tinged, autocratic regime of President Ferdinand Marcos, who seven years ago imposed martial law on the 7,000 islands of the Philippine archipelago. Today he rules as both President and Prime Minister over a dangerously deteriorating society. Despite statistically impressive increases in his country's per capita income, poverty and hunger affect most of the Philippines' 46.5 million people, a population that faces increasing suffering as the country totters toward economic...
...INDONESIA. Its poorly equipped army of 180,000 men is used for internal security on an archipelago that includes more than 3,000 islands. It packs no offensive punch, the logistics are wretched and communications all but impossible. The Indonesian navy, one of the largest in Asia, has three submarines, eleven frigates and 22 large patrol craft. The air force has 28,000 men but only 32 combat aircraft-some of them out of service because of a lack of spare parts...
...third and most modest moratorium call has been submitted by the Seychelles, an archipelago 1,000 miles off Africa's eastern coast. The young nation wants a three-year ban on all sperm whaling. It is also asking for creation of a whaling sanctuary in the Indian Ocean, where all species would be protected. The suggestion, given the best chance of passing, would allow scientists to test what many marine biologists regard as shaky thinking behind the IWC's current quotas...
From distant points in the vast Gulag archipelago, five bone-weary men were rounded up and taken to Moscow. At 4 a.m. on Friday of last week, they were abruptly awakened, handed suits in exchange for prison garb, curtly informed that they were being stripped of their Soviet citizenship, and rushed to Sheremetyevo Airport. There they boarded Aeroflot Flight 315 for New York City. At Kennedy Airport in the foggy afternoon, the ex-prisoners of conscience-Dissidents Alexander Ginzburg, Georgi Vins, Mark Dymshits, Eduard Kuznetsov and Valentyn Moroz-were released into American hands, while two convicted Soviet spies were hustled...
University Food Services will give 95 cents for each fasting student to Tchuba, an American organization devoted to helping the African coastal archipelago of Cape Verde, a food services spokesman said yesterday...