Word: mauritius
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...pushing for a resolution condemning the Oct. 25 U.S. invasion of Grenada. Leaders from five of the Eastern Caribbean states that had joined the U.S. forces refused to go along. In the course of an unusually acrimonious discussion, a vocal contingent from the African states of Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mauritius claimed that the U.S. action might encourage the South Africans to invade neighboring countries on the pretext of protecting its nationals abroad. In response, Dominica's Prime Minister Eugenia Charles, who had stood at President Reagan's side when he announced the Grenadian operation, replied, "They...
...small diplomatic threat to the completion of the base has surfaced 1,174 miles to the south in Mauritius, a onetime British colony that gained its independence in 1968. At that time, British authorities transported the 1,200 inhabitants of Diego Garcia to Mauritius, while retaining control of the atoll. Now Mauritius' Prime Minister, Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, says he intends to press a claim of ownership of Diego Garcia upon Britain. In London diplomats expressed some puzzlement at the claim, since Diego Garcia was never officially part of Mauritius, even in colonial days...
...middle of the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, the island of Mauritius took several million years to develop animal forms that exist nowhere else in the world. But what nature can accomplish in eons, humanity can undo in millenniums, and that is exactly what the species Homo sapiens has done on Mauritius. By his own actions-and those of the animals he has introduced-man has already done away away the flightless black parrot, the giant Mauritian tortoise and the dodo, the huge bird whose very name has become synonymous with extinction. Now civilization threatens the rest of this island...
...Gerald Durrell can help it. The zoologist has long maintained a sanctuary for endangered species on the English Channel Island of Jersey and has scoured the world to collect threatened birds, mammals and reptiles. In his latest book, he wittily describes his efforts to help the nonhuman population of Mauritius and neighboring islands. Durrell's adventures have an engaging lunacy that relieves their underlying tension. He and his party risked bites from golden fruit bats that objected to the indignity of having their private parts probed so their would-be saviors could ascertain their sex. They suffered seasickness...
France has claimed the island for 200 years (it is named for a chevalier who first set foot on Tromelin in 1776) and has maintained the weather service since 1953. Yet vigorous dissent to the French claim has been registered by Mauritius. 300 miles to the southeast. Prime Minister Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, 77, insists that Tromelin "is part and parcel of our territory, and always has been.'' In fact, Mauritius' claim -dates back only to 1959. nine years before the nation won independence from Britain. Last year, after learning that France intended to cultivate the Tromelin turtles...