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...trade is booming in the small cays. Says Skip Nichols, 33, a Fort Myers marina operator: "Right where Kalia III was found, I have watched drug transactions with my binoculars." There are so many isolated cays-at least 2,000 among the 700 or so islands in the Bahamas archipelago-that the traffic is difficult to police. But some spots have become notorious among yachtsmen, including Norman Cay, just 30 miles from Pipe Cay. Norman Cay is four miles long and has an airstrip and marina. The key was once a happy watering hole for passing sailors...
...fact, they may have barely scratched the surface. Italy's degenerating political climate has not only been chilled by violence from the left, it has also spawned what one official calls "a vast archipelago of black [right-wing] terrorism." Of the 248 people killed by terrorists in Italy since 1969, neo-Fascists have been responsible...
Swaying palms, warm breezes, gentle waves-when it comes to the Melanesian archipelago of the New Hebrides, the standard tropical cliches are in order. The 72-island chain was, after all, the model for James Michener's Bali Ha'i in Tales of the South Pacific, later turned into a musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein. Now, after 74 years of joint British-French colonial rule and on the eve of independence, the archipelago and its 100,000 inhabitants are experiencing their first political upheaval...
...readers by other means. Though under surveillance and in constant danger of arrest or assassination, he contrived a kind of literary Dunkirk. He smuggled out to the West every one of his divisions and army corps. These had now grown in force and number to include the monumental Gulag Archipelago, The Oak and the Calf and August 1914. He gave instructions that vest-pocket editions of his books be printed in Russian on Bible paper by his Paris publisher for more convenient smuggling to the Soviet Union. At the same time, foreign short-wave stations were regularly broad casting readings...
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 4, 1975 Demanding independence for the South Moluccan Archipelago, gunmen seize the Indonesian consulate, taking 30 hostages, including 16 children. Negotiations obtain release of some children. Terrorists surrender after 16-day siege, during which one prisoner dies, three are injured while escaping...