Word: oceanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since its shoestring beginning in an Ocean Park, Calif., garage, Synanon has done very well by itself. The taxexempt, nonprofit organization has 883 adults and 300 children living in luxury on two ranches in the Sierra foothills, beach-front property in Santa Monica and Tomales Bay and in a converted San Francisco paint factory. Most members pay a minimum $400 a month for room, board and uplift, but some contribute much more. One woman has donated more than $1 million. Synanon's assets, including ten aircraft and 400 cars, trucks and motorcycles, total almost $30 million. Its advertising...
Once the crews were safe, the biggest question was the extent of oil loss and the damage to sea life. The principal ooze, from the Venpet's fuel reserves, formed an ocean slick six miles long and two miles wide. Fortunately, the Venoil's oil compartments were not punctured; a strong southwesterly wind, moreover, prevented the oil from drifting toward South Africa's coastal holiday beaches 22 miles away...
...islands that dot the Indian Ocean, few could be more obscure than Tromelin. Understandably so. It is a tear-shaped chunk of 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...
Tromelin scarcely seems worth the effort. For one thing, there are no permanent residents. Other Indian Ocean islands can boast of native Maldivians, Seychellois, Mauritians or Malagasy. The only permanent Tromelinians are sea turtles and terns and the larger frigate sea birds, whose droppings until 1956 were harvested as the island's principal resource, guano for fertilizer. A small, transient French colony operating meteorological instruments and a radio transmitter is stationed there to forecast weather conditions for larger islands as well as for commercial airliners passing overhead...
...first homeland to accept independence, Transkei, at least had the distinction of being virtually a self-contained entity with an Indian Ocean coastline and a deep-water port. Landlocked BophuthaTswana, by contrast, consists of seven patches of territory scattered from the northwestern Transvaal to the Orange