Word: mauritius
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Diego Garcia's strategic position is evident. Almost equidistant from Indonesia and East Africa, India and Mauritius, the island sits astride the great sea lanes from the Cape of Good Hope to Singapore...
...chosen the extinct dodo as SAFE'S emblem, and sports a button reading "Dodo Power," in the hope of dramatizing the urgency of the situation: the flightless bird was extinct only 186 years after Europeans landed on its home island of Mauritius. "The dodo was part of a delicate spider web that connects us all," says Durrell. "Every time you muck about with that web, it sends tremors all the way through...
...needed to recover from the influenza he had suffered repeatedly this past winter." In what seemed an attempt at public reassurance, an official emphasized that Pompidou would carry on his regular office routine, which this week included meeting three African heads of state, the prime ministers of Korea and Mauritius, and several high-ranking French officials. Pompidou, the Elysee Palace said, would go ahead with official visits to West Germany later this month and to China in September, and would receive Italian President Giovanni Leone in Paris in late June...
...Calvados. Even so, the voyage was no pleasure cruise. Pen Duick's living quarters are so cramped that even 5-ft. 6-in. Colas had to cook almost doubled up over a low stove. But that was a small, familiar drawback. Colas previously sailed Pen Duick singlehanded from Mauritius around the Cape of Good Hope to Brittany-a nonstop journey of 10,000 miles. Other jaunts included Australia to Tahiti (after Colas quit his job as a French lecturer at the University of Sydney) and Tahiti to Mauritius (with his fiancée, Teura Krause...
...been disappointed in them." His Minister of Police, S. Lourens Muller, declared that the demonstrations were "in line with Communist aims of bringing about a change in the South African way of life." The trouble was really caused, he implied, by students from "Northern Ireland, Britain, Rhodesia, Zambia and Mauritius...