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...19th century French painter. But then Hiva Oa is not your run-of-the-mill tourist island. With just 2,000 lucky inhabitants and one hotel, it's a place where the sight of a boy washing his horse in the surf on an empty black-sand beach, or copra drying in someone's front yard, is common. Hiva Oa is the second largest island in the Marquesas, a distinct group of 14 isles within French Polynesia, located about three hours northeast of the French Polynesian capital Papeete. It's the kind of far-flung spot on the map that...
...island's sole industry is the production of copra, dried coconut meat that is collected by a freighter once a month and taken to the main island to be pressed for its oil. All over the island copra is spread on racks to dry in the sun, producing an inescapable smell of warm suntan...
...reform. The top tax rate has been cut from 60% to 35%, while a broad range of special exemptions has been eliminated. In the same egalitarian vein, the country's sugar and coconut monopolies, long in the hands of Marcos cronies, have been disbanded. The world price paid for copra, or coconut meat, has increased 250% in the past year; thanks to trust busting, money that once went to monopolists now goes to farmers. In the effort to purge Marcos-style cronyism from the economy, scores of nonperforming public enterprises that had languished in the hands of the former President...
...upward mobility, America's gifts to Micronesia, have changed the Pacific of Maugham and Robert Louis Stevenson," says DeVoss. "A $500,000 bridge is planned to link two outer Samoan islands I once swam between four years ago. Still, no change can dull the macaroon scent of drying copra or the taste of raw tuna...
...Marshall Islands is a bacillus-shaped coral atoll less than 100 yds. wide. A palm-fringed island with a glistening lagoon, Majuro shelters the most unusual mix of American expatriates in the Pacific. The island's biggest contractor is a Portuguese Hawaiian. A Massachusetts Jew manages the copra-processing plant. They are a demonstrative lot. When Majuro's American Chamber of Commerce got no satisfaction at a meeting to protest air-freight rate increases, members pelted the two Air Mike representatives with banana cream pies...