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MYSTERIES OF EASTER ISLAND, by Francis Maziere. The brooding huge monoliths of Easter Island, 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile in the Pacific, have held an abiding fascination for generations of archaeologists. Maziere has new theories about the men who produced them and why, though the impact of his research is somewhat blunted by the fact that boulder-size chunks were lifted from previous work by an obscure Capuchin priest named Father Sebastian Englert...
...residences, the presidential purse does not seem too strained. When Nixon sold his Fifth Avenue apartment in New York City last May, he received $326,000-twice what he paid for it in 1963. In April, the President sold 185,891 shares he had held in Fisher's Island, Inc., a land-development firm near Miami. Selling at $2 a share, the President doubled his original investment. With his White House salary, and what he saved from the fat years as a corporate attorney in New York, Richard Nixon is reasonably well off. And, of course, all the interest...
...officials would like to strengthen the agreement by providing for the extradition and severe punishment of hijackers as a matter of course. Even so, any country can get around extradition by granting hijackers "political asylum"-as Cuba has done regularly. Only last week, hijackers bound for Castro's island boldly seized two Ecuadorian military transports on a flight out of Quito. When one crewman put up a fight they shot him dead...
...control the crown-of-thorns, some scientists suggest repopulating the reefs with tritons, which are now protected by law in Queensland, Australia. Others propose spreading lime on the ocean floor, a technique that has already been used with moderate success to protect Long Island Sound's oyster beds from the common American starfish, Asterias forbesi. A Japanese scientist has even advised stringing wire around coral reefs to repel the starfish with a low-voltage electric shock...
...University of Puerto Rico and works in a laboratory at Mayagüez, also serves as senior marine scientist for Lederle Laboratories. Some of his antibacterial finds have come from sponges collected from as far away as Australia's Great Barrier Reef and Palau in the Caroline Islands. When he arrived in Rhode Island last week, he had scarcely dried off from a scuba-diving, sponge-hunting expedition on the outermost edge of the Caribbean, between the British islands of Virgin Gorda and Anegada. Burkholder made his dives with an assistant, Robert Brody, who is completing his doctoral work...