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...tragedy was not the first in the waters off the islands of Mindoro and Marinduque, among the busiest sea-lanes in the archipelago. Less than 40 miles from where the Dona Paz went down, the ferry Don Juan collided with an oil tanker in 1980. More than 100 drowned. Last week's disaster may have been caused by navigational errors -- or negligence. One survivor alleged that at the time of the collision the Dona Paz's captain was watching a video in his bunk and the first and third mates were drinking beer, leaving an inexperienced apprentice in charge...
...accommodate the one-month schedule, the route of the Pacific passage was unkinked into a more or less straight line from Honolulu to Kavieng, on the northwest tip of New Ireland in the Bismarck Archipelago. Sealestial covered more than 3,500 nautical miles; ports of call included inhospitable Johnston Atoll, believed to be the site of a U.S. poison-gas depot, where even such minimum security risks as a former ambassador and the editor of the National Review were denied an overnight parking space...
...brief time last week, it seemed as if paradise had been regained in the South Pacific archipelago of Fiji. Just ten days after Lieut. Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka marched into Parliament and arrested the recently elected government, a relaxed crowd of some 3,000 Fijians gathered outside the Civic Center in the capital city of Suva. People danced to pop tunes played by the Royal Fijian Armed Services band, which included in its program, appropriately, Bridge over Troubled Waters and Onward Christian Soldiers. When Lieut. Colonel Rabuka appeared, the band enthusiastically struck up the song...
...O.P.C. also honored Photographer Carl Mydans, whose 55 years at TIME and LIFE resulted in hundreds of photo essays and cover pictures. Having chronicled the fall of Manila in World War II and MacArthur's return to the archipelago three years later, the photographer went back to the Philippines last year for TIME. An O.P.C. Special Judges Citation recognized Mydans' Philippines coverage and pioneering record...
...efforts by foreign companies already in place, little new direct foreign investment has entered the country since she took presidential office. But so far as Western banks are concerned, the awkward problem is that the latest fussing over debt agreements has delayed a cautious vote of confidence in the archipelago...