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...confront Gaddafi, a move that was denounced by former Premier Maurice Couve de Murville as "the greatest humiliation that France has suffered for a long time." Mitterrand has been hurt as well by public concern over the still simmering separatist revolt in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia...
...special envoy to New Caledonia arrived in the French Pacific territory last week to be welcomed by an honor guard of French soldiers. But the ceremonial greeting was deceptive. Heavily armed French troops stood guard and were positioned in the nearby bush. Commissioner Edgard Pisani, 66, had been sent from Paris to try to quell the violence that by week's end had left twelve people dead and about a dozen others injured in the island territory 750 miles east of Australia, which was annexed by France in 1853. Pisani's mission is also to find a solution...
...news to many Americans that the Scots do not live by haggis and porridge alone. As zestfully set forth in A Feast of Scotland by Janet Warren (Little, Brown; 176 pages; $12.95), Caledonia has a rich and distinctive cuisine. Its glories flow from bountiful game, fresh- and saltwater fish, beef and lamb, though the Scots have always relied on grain. Their baps, bannocks, buns, oatcakes and scones are among the world's finest daily breadstuff's. Warren provides sound recipes for loaves and fishes, as well as for sturdy broses (porridge soups) and broths like the celebrated cock...
That was a natural assignment for Cook, since he was the first to chart large areas of the Pacific (among his discoveries: New Zealand, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Easter Island). Trouble was that the Navy had retired Cook from sea duty last year and made him a captain of the Greenwich Hospital for pensioned sailors, a sinecure that pays ?230 a year, as well as a free suite of rooms, firewood and candles. But Cook, still only 47, was restless. To a friend he confided: "A few months ago, the whole southern hemisphere was hardly big enough...
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