Word: polynesia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Norwegian ethnologist Thor Heyerdahl sails from Peru to Polynesia on the wooden raft Kon-Tiki to support his theory that pre-Incan peoples reached South Pacific islands by sea and colonized them...
Captain James Cook saw a lot of strange things when he was exploring Polynesia in 1769, but the virgins chewing kava brought him up short. After pulling the plant's root out of the ground, island girls worked it over in their mouths, reducing it to a pulp, then spit the whole mess into coconut milk. The mixture was then strained through fibers, collected in a bowl and consumed by the tribe at large. Cook's men found the practice distasteful, but what did they know? Kava, after all, had been a popular tonic in the South Seas...
Thumbing its nose at near-unanimous international condemnation, France set off a third nuclear blast beneath the Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia about 6 p.m. ET. "This test was necessary to guarantee in the future the security and reliability of our arms," the French Defense Ministry said in a statement. French President Jacques Chirac has promised to sign a global test ban treaty, but only after all eight planned tests have occurred...
...carry out the test, despite the hysteria that Greenpeace and others are trying to spread everywhere. Don't imagine that the French people are against the nuclear testing. Did you see 1 million French in the streets of Paris demanding the cessation of the nuclear tests in French Polynesia? No, you did not, and you will not, for the truth is that we agree with the decision of our President. NICOLAS NOLF Grenoble, France...
...DISAGREE WITH CHIRAC'S POLICIES IN general and in particular with the carrying out of nuclear tests in French Polynesia. Nevertheless, I ask myself why Australia and New Zealand have not said a word about the Chinese nuclear tests that have continued to take place. Why don't they protest against the nuclear power plants still working in the former U.S.S.R.? Have the Australians forgotten that their country sells uranium to France? Chirac's government has decided to conduct the tests because of the French nuclear lobby, which represents companies that give thousands of people their jobs. FABRICE LEVEQUE Fresnoy...