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MYSTERIES OF EASTER ISLAND, by Francis Maziere. The brooding huge monoliths of Easter Island, 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile in the Pacific, have held an abiding fascination for generations of archaeologists. Maziere has new theories about the men who produced them and why, though the impact of his research is somewhat blunted by the fact that boulder-size chunks were lifted from previous work by an obscure Capuchin priest named Father Sebastian Englert...
...white-dominated Rhodesia for trade and electric power. The cost of living is soaring and abrasive tensions between Zambia's blacks and whites (who constitute 1.5% of the population), are on the rise. Recognizing the importance of the mines to his country, Kaunda met two years ago with Chile's President Eduardo Frei to discuss an arrangement to help maintain world copper prices and quotas. Although no price-fixing agreement resulted from their talks, Frei's nationalization of the Chilean copper industry, beginning in 1967, probably stimulated Kaunda to take a similar step in Zambia...
Zambia's action also creates problems for other underdeveloped countries, which need foreign venture capital in order to develop both their resources and their economies. Although Chile made arrangements to pay the owners of expropriated American firms for their losses in three years, foreign investors have been understandably slow to sink new funds into operations there. Peru's military junta has frightened outside investors by its seizure of International Petroleum Co.'s properties last October. The U.S.-owned Southern Peru Copper Corp., which was ready to invest $350 million to develop its copper ore concession a year...
MYSTERIES OF EASTER ISLAND, by Francis Mazière. The brooding huge monoliths of Easter Island, 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile in the Pacific, have held an abiding fascination for generations of archaeologists. Mazière has new theories about the men who produced them and why, though the impact of his research is somewhat blunted by the fact that boulder-size chunks were lifted from previous work by an obscure Capuchin priest named Father Sebastian Englert...
When Maziere arrived in 1963, the population had edged back to 1,000. But he found the descendants of the master sculptors living in "the most unbelievable wretchedness." Now under the rule of Chile, they were penned up like sheep in a small compound, subject to forced labor, denied anything more than elementary education, refused the right to emigrate. As a gesture of sympathy, Mazière and his wife moved into the native village. According to Maziere, this apparently impolitic decision was largely responsible for the expedition's success. The Mazieres shared with the islanders whatever they...