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Such are the New Hebrides, a tranquil cluster of 72 islands some 1,000 miles east of Australia. There are no taxes and no newspapers, and only five miles of paved roads on the entire archipelago. Telephone service to the outside world shuts down entirely for two days a week, and the flight-departure board at the main airport often lists the time of Air Pacific's next scheduled flight as "soon as possible." Despite the many things they do not have, however, the New Hebrides have, in effect, two governments, for they are the world's only...
...Memory Book, Lorayne & Lucas(2) 3-The Woman He Loved, Martin (3) 4-You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis, Browne (4) 5-Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, Read (5) 6-A Bridge Too Far, Ryan (8,) 7-More Joy, Comfort (6) 8-The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn (7) 9-Cavett, Cavett & Porferfie/d (9) 10-All Things Bright and Beautiful, Herriot
...President' s Men, Bernsfein & Woodward (1) 2-The Memory Book, Lorayne & Lucas(2) 3-The Woman He Loved, Martin (3) 4-You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis, Browne (4) 5-Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, Read (5) 6-More Joy, Comfort (6) 7-The Gulag Archipelago, So/zhen/'/syn (7) 8-A Bridge Too Far, Ryan (10) 9-Cavett, Caveff & Porferfie/d 10-TheCIAand the Cult of Intelligence, Marchetti & Marks
...Gulag Archipelago, Salzhenitsyn...
...news correspondents, who act as secret agents. The Chinese Communist Party, however, does funnel funds to revolutionary groups abroad, particularly in Asia and Africa. From time to time, Chinese covert operations also have failed spectacularly. In 1965, Indonesia reacted to China's attempt to sponsor a revolution in the archipelago by butchering tens of thousands of Communists...