Word: fiji
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Singapore, became the first South Pacific country to sign an agreement with the Soviet Union. The $1.7 million fishing treaty allows the Soviets emergency access to the cash-starved nation's 33 coral atolls. Two weeks ago Moscow began similar negotiations with Vanuatu, a nearby island nation, and Fiji has also expressed interest in a Soviet fishing agreement. In the latest talks the Soviets are more demanding: they are asking for shore privileges and airline landing rights as well as fishing access. Vanuatu, an 80-island nation about 1,000 miles east of Australia and 1,000 miles north...
...traditional qualities, the projects--and the people behind them--have become more purposeful. In Sri Lanka, most volunteers are English teachers, but their programs are targeted at native educators rather than large groups of villagers; thus the agency produces trained local teachers to serve local needs. In Fiji, the corps provides tutoring in math, physics and accounting. In Nepal, the agency is looking for an array of new specialists, including urban planners, editors of technical journals and computer experts. But the volunteers there still tough out hardships: they usually live in small quarters with outdoor latrines and no running water...
...object is to learn to discuss rationally," Fiji delegate and erst-while Milton Academy student Joe F. Toot said yesterday. "Our resolutions should offer real solutions to real conflicts," he added...
...Yuppie prefers Aruba, Fiji or some presumably undiscovered inn, "only to find the dining room packed with M.B.A.s ordering cassis sherbet for dessert." Favored movies include Annie Hall (in fact, anything by Woody Allen), Casablanca (because of the ceiling fans), An Unmarried Woman (excellent footage of SoHo lofts) and Chariots of Fire (crucial emphasis on athletics, competitiveness and expensive clothing...
...delicate situation has been complicated by the hovering presence of Houston's Susan Beth Franzheim, 41, the wife of Kenneth Franzheim II, former U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga. Franzheim, who believes she may be the reincarnation of Senmut, an Egyptian court adviser who lived some 3,400 years ago, donated $20,000 to ARCE for Gauri's initial research and offered to raise $60,000 more...