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...major powers are less and less inclined to bring matters of substance before the U.N., that is partly because of its unwieldy size and distorted representation. The Pacific island republic of Fiji, which last week became the 127th member of the U.N., has a population of only 520,000; yet it is a giant compared with some of the microstates that will soon be knocking on the U.N.'s doors. Of a total of some 65 territories, trusts and colonies that are headed for independence, 50 have populations under 100,000. All together, these potential members will represent fewer...
...budding fashion plate who obviously has no use for longer hemlines is Princess Anne. Alighting from a car in Fiji, where the British royal family stopped on their world tour, minishifted Anne displayed a pair of legs that should never, never be Longuetted...
...laid waste to 100 sq. mi. of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest and most impressive collection of underwater coral formations. It has also destroyed nearly 22 miles of Guam's coral barrier. Marine biologists report similar starfish damage off Saipan, Fiji and the western Solomons. In only five years, says Oceanographer R. D. Gaul of San Diego's Westinghouse Ocean Research Laboratory, the starfish can destroy a coral atoll that may have taken thousands of years to form...
...planes to its fleet, and it blames the delay in the CAB ruling for 31% of the line's $5,100,000 loss during the first five months of 1969. The long-disputed South Pacific route award finally went to American Airlines, which will fly to Australia, the Fiji Islands and New Zealand. In addition, the CAB last week granted new or extended routes to twelve domestic airlines in the vast "Southern Tier" stretching from Florida to California...
...Eastern, which as recently as 1963 was shaky enough to ask for a $33 million subsidy, got a chance to change from a domestic carrier into a major international airline, giving Pan Am its first U.S.-flag competition in such South Pacific areas as New Zealand, Tahiti and the Fiji Islands-not from U.S West Coast cities (which Pan Am serves), but from eleven mainland points plus Mexico City and Acapulco...