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...Ladies and gentlemen," the intercom Li crackles, "out of the left side of the cabin are the remains of the Japanese Imperial Fleet." Banking sharply into the sunset, the Air Micronesia 727 circles the Truk lagoon. Coral reefs color the water in pastels of orange, yellow and green, interspersed with the darker shapes of sunken hulls. "It was on Feb. 16, 1944, that we spotted 'em," the voice continues enthusiastically. "Our fighters dive-bombed all day, and next morning when they finished mopping up, more than 60 ships were on the bottom." Only after a second turn around...
...Micronesia-"Air Mike," as it is known locally-is the pony express of the Pacific. Three times each week the airline's two jets, both coated with Teflon to fight the corrosive effects of salty coral runways, hop among Micronesia's six island airports on Truk, Kwajalein, Yap, Ponape, Majuro and Palau. It is a measure of the region's isolation-the nights range up to 1,451 miles nonstop-that no plane travels without a mechanic and spare parts. Says Captain Lee Minors, 43, who prepped for atoll landings on the flight deck of the U.S.S...
There are about 150 Americans on Majuro (pop. 7,500), and it is difficult for them not to stick together. The district center of the 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...
...last month announced that his Marxist republic is the rightful owner not only of Tromelin but of three other small French islands: Europa, Juan de Nova and Glorieuses. It is said that Ratsiraka wants Tromelin in order to establish a Soviet base there. That seems unlikely: because of the coral reefs, large ships could never venture inshore, and Tromelin is so small that a large airplane would run out of island before it could brake to a stop...
...first year. They will eat peanut butter and jelly, dog food, cereal, lettuce or fruit, though GAC would naturally prefer to have crab fanciers feed them its "special dinner mix" at $2 per 3-oz. shaker. Many owners buy fancy shells to serve as crab pads, coral trees for them to play in and, of course, leashes. Though they have less personality than, say, dolphins, fond owners aver that they are never crabby and are quite unshellfish...