Word: archipelagos
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Wiesel leads his delegation into the palace of Alija Izetbegovic, Muslim President of the shrunken republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, which is only an archipelago of besieged fortresses now. Wiesel has come to try to project a little of his luminous sanity and decency in the war zone, to hold everyone to a higher standard and possibly to make some of the killers ashamed of what they are doing. In an ornate ceremonial room painted toxic green, Wiesel, wonder rabbi out of Auschwitz, sits side by side with Izetbegovic, whom the nationalist Serbs see as the spearhead of a fundamentalist Muslim...
...forests and using irrigation to cultivate yams, bananas and taro root. Coastal people were developing double-hulled ocean-going canoes and mastering the rudiments of navigation, which led to an explosion of interisland trade. The dominant traders, peoples known to archaeologists as the Lapita, who lived in the Bismarck archipelago, did a booming commerce in food, obsidian, seashells and elaborately stamped pottery from island to island, eventually venturing as far away as Fiji and Tonga...
...many of the Russians living on the Kurile Islands are hoping for a future better than they ever dreamed. Their homes are on what Japan still calls its Northern Territories, a volcanic archipelago stretching 186 miles from Japan's northern border waters that was seized by the Soviets in the waning days of World War II. Tokyo wants those territories back, and part of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa's strategy is to woo the 25,000 Russian residents with hints of the good life that would blossom under Japan's rule...
...years since the Bahamas gained independence from Britain, Lynden O. Pindling has been the only Prime Minister. But trouble in the economy, including a decline in tourism -- the archipelago's main industry -- ended all that. Challenger Hubert Ingraham, a market-oriented centrist, won 31 seats in the 49-member Parliament and the right to form a new government...
...recent story line reflects some of the strips lighter humor. Boopsie, the airhead actress has been telling a charming, yet typical tale of all her reincarnations from "a plague-stricken calligrapher... from Gunbad-i-Qabus" to a victim of headhunters in the Malaysian Archipelago. From the highly political to the highly bizarre, Trudeau's Doonesbury is always entertaining and is definitely one of the best strips running in newspapers today...