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...financial center of gravity in the world has shifted toward the Pacific Rim, new tax and secrecy havens have multiplied on such remote islands as Nauru in the western Pacific and Palau and Truk in Micronesia. Citizens of Vanuatu, a volcanic archipelago of some 80 islands formerly known as the New Hebrides, have found that international finance beats coconut and taro farming. In Port Vila, the capital, it is not unusual for a $100 million transaction between major international banks to take place on any given...
Marcos could easily have been a hero. When he was first elected President of the Philippines, in November 1965, he had history within his grasp. His uncommon combination of political shrewdness and ironfisted determination gave a strong measure of national identity to the fractious Southeast Asian archipelago. Encountering minimal opposition when he took on dictatorial powers in 1972, Marcos thoroughly reordered Philippine economic and political life, impressing both his people and his key ally, the U.S., with his irreplaceability in one of the most strategic corridors of the world...
...armies were no longer enough. A country had to be able to involve all its economic forces in a protracted war -- especially one against the Soviet Union, the foe Japan believed it was destined to battle for domination of northeast Asia. The military men knew that while the Japanese archipelago was woefully short of natural resources, neighboring territories were not. First Manchuria, then the rest of the old imperial Chinese realm became the focus of Japan's rush toward autarky. And that quest for security would lead deeper and deeper into...
INTERVIEW: Far away from the Gulag Archipelago, a Russian expatriate and sage in Vermont...
Eventually the passengers, many still clad in pajamas, were taken to Spitsbergen, in Norway's polar Svalbard archipelago, and then flown back to West Germany. Emergency teams kept the Maxim Gorky from sinking by pumping water out of the vessel and plugging the gashes with cement brought out to them by a Russian freighter...