Word: mauritius
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...sand less than one mile long and 700 yards wide. Its flora consists of four coconut palms and some nondescript bushes that submerge whenever the sea turns rough. Nonetheless, Tromelin has become the focus of a heated political controversy. Three nations claim it: France, which currently controls it, Mauritius and Madagascar (formerly Malagasy). Their feud may have to be resolved by the International Court of Justice in The Hague...
...final resolution was a compromise between the council's five Western members (the U.S., Britain, France, West Germany and Canada) and their three counterparts from Africa (Benin, Libya and Mauritius), representing the U.N.'s 49-nation African group.* Earlier in the week, the U.S., Britain and France all vetoed African efforts to impose economic sanctions against Pretoria-a step that would have caused real damage not only to South Africa but also to the Western powers and many smaller nations that trade with it. In the end, the African members settled for a permanent arms embargo. The Western...
...nuclear power (TIME, April 12)-enriched South African uranium. There was also a diplomatic dividend. Largely because of Arab pressure, 29 of the 33 black African countries that once had diplomatic ties with Israel broke them off at the time of the 1973 Middle East war (only Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius and Swaziland retain such ties). South Africa, said one Israeli diplomat, gives his country an entry to the rest of Africa: "We reach there not through the black door but through the back door...
...because they are either landlocked or have extremely narrow continental shelves, and they want a share of the resources of the seas. Nations with broad shelves -among them India, Argentina and Canada-are united in pressing for as big a territorial sea as possible. Archipelagic states like Indonesia and Mauritius want to control not only all the water around their component islands, but also the passage of vessels through straits. The overriding concern of the major maritime powers, which Include Norway and Liberia along with the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain and Japan, is unrestricted freedom of navigation anywhere...
...began eying the island in 1966 after Mauritius, which had administered its affairs, became independent...