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...which Senior Writer Michael Demarest visited for his accompanying piece on the controversial indoor sports arena. For Demarest, going to Louisiana was a kind of homecoming: his family has lived in New Orleans for three centuries. ∙ Before writing his impressions of Micronesia for NATION, Hong Kong Correspondent David DeVoss made a 17,500-mile, 17-day odyssey through America's vast aqueous empire. He had first visited the Pacific during the early '70s while commuting to two brief tours in Viet Nam and remembered the islands as "a frontier where tedium and pleasure competed...
...course of his voyage, DeVoss surveyed the island of Ponape via a Boston whaler, helped fly a Grumman goose...
...close-as-possible look at the new Cambodia, which is all but closed to foreigners, TIME Correspondent David DeVoss visited three camps in Thailand, at the border provinces of Surin, Chantha-buri and Trat, which have been set up for some of the thousands of refugees who have run the gauntlet of mines, snipers and punji stick booby traps along the frontier to reach freedom. His report...
...think Mr. DeVoss, like so many foreigners, was expecting some idealistic Utopian state. If "the essence of California does not travel well," why am I looking out my window at a line of out-of-state camper...
...DeVoss notwithstanding, everyone in California agrees on nothing-except, perhaps, that homebred flakes are preferable to the imported variety...