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...huge French colonial empire in Africa that as recently as 1958 included 15 states. The others are all independent nations today. Troops of the fabled French Foreign Legion will stay on in Djibouti to help keep order. Reunion island and the Comoro island of Mayotte, both in the Indian Ocean, remain as overseas departments of France, with representatives in the National Assembly in Paris...
There are many other frontiers. Exploration of the ocean depths may become a new counterpart of the space program. Scientists are engaged in-a fascinating search into the structure of atomic particles. "This is a new world of muons, of quarks, and we shall have to invent a new language to cope with it," says M.I.T. Physicist Victor Weisskopf. Others are exploring DNA, the stuff of life itself...
...summer of 1975, William F. Buckley Jr. made an Atlantic crossing - chronicled in his book Airborne - aboard his 60-ft. cutter Cyrano. Says Buckley: "All adventure is now reactionary." With loran, radar, autopilot and vintage wines, Buckley was not exactly blown across the ocean on a naked raft. Even the most venturesome solitary sailors today - men like Sir Francis Chichester, who circumnavigated the globe in 1966-67 in his 53-ft. boat Gipsy Moth IV - have the advantage of sophisticated hull and sail design. Says Tristan Jones, a small, bearded Welsh sailor who has circumnavigated the globe three times, crossed...
Arab Traders. It is questionable whether anyone else could do much better than Suharto at governing Indonesia -a diverse (more than 300 ethnic groups, dozens of languages) archipelago of 3,000 mineral-rich islands scattered over 3,000 miles of ocean. Just as it lured Arab traders and Dutch colonialists in centuries past, Indonesia today entices Western and Japanese businessmen interested in a financial killing. The sight of safari-suited foreigners sitting by the pools of Jakarta's luxury hotels, drinking Bintang beer and talking about pipelines, drill sites and tax laws, is testimony to the seductive pull...
...during the period of transition to the use of renewable energy sources even if this transition should last a hundred years or more." The U.N. experts believe that today's high oil prices will encourage exploration in remote, previously uneconomic but potentially promising areas such as the deep ocean bed and the polar icecaps...