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...gerously thin majority on that issue. The Rev. Ian Paisley, a fiery Protestant leader and M.P., called from the Tory benches for complete integration of Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom. Right-wing Tories immediately cabled Queen Elizabeth, who was attending inde pendence-day celebrations on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, to pro test the "betrayal of your loyal Ulster subjects...
...matter of course for a country to include intelligence operatives among its diplomats, the FBI leaked word that Kao Liang, leader of the Chinese advance party, was a well-known Peking agent. Kao (whose name is pronounced Gow) was reported to have been booted out of India, Mauritius and Burundi for fomenting subversion while working for the New China News Agency. The charge may well be true, and at least one U.S. diplomat abroad affirms, "We know he is a spook," though the same accusation was equally applicable to every Chinese diplomat in Africa during the 1960s, when Peking...
Even before Banda's trip, Black Africa's solidarity was not all that solid. Four small black states in southern Africa, as well as the island nations of Madagascar and Mauritius, now have formal diplomatic or trade links with Pretoria. The leaders of a few others, notably the Ivory Coast's President Felix Houphouët-Boigny, have advocated a "dialogue" with South Africa. Such talk is heard mostly in former French colonies and is quietly encouraged by Paris, which seeks African support for its own efforts to increase trade with Pretoria...
...President Georges Pompidou and Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath. The breakthrough came on the second evening of the two-day bargaining session in Brussels. The first day had ended poorly. Rippon was adamant in his demands for assurances that Commonwealth sugar-producing countries, such as Jamaica, Mauritius and Fiji, be granted special preferences to sell their commodity to the Common Market. The Six refused. "They tried to hustle us as if we were a little girl on whom they had designs," the French press quoted Schumann as saying. "Well, the little girl isn't so little...
...naval domination. They have helped develop the Indian port of Visakhapatnam and are adapting it for the possible use of Soviet submarines. On South Yemen's island of Socotra, which dominates the approach to the Red Sea, they are constructing a naval radio station and ammunition depot. On Mauritius they have been given harbor facilities. In addition, the Russians have signed fishing agreements with at least ten nations, stretching from Egypt to Indonesia, and along the East African coast they have set up a string of buoys which could be used as rendezvous anchorages for supply and refueling vessels...