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...part of incoming Japanese. They have asked for permission to raise eels and harvest seaweed around Saipan. A more grandiose scheme calls for coffee, rice and frogs to be raised on Tinian, just south of Saipan. Farther away, on Palau, Japanese investors plan to build a $325 million supertanker port if they get permission from local chiefs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Paradise with Rough Edges | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

Having a backyard ski slope gives Susan Blakely (The Towering Inferno) a lift. Installed in the driveway of her Los Angeles home, the fake flakes on her port-a-slope enable the model-turned-actress to prepare for her new movie role as a ballet skier. Susan, 28, is taking lessons in 360° turns and crossovers. The script of the film, Free Style, is "heavy and touching," she says. It is about a world champion ballet skier who feels she is past her prime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 16, 1978 | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

Crashing through choppy seas on a misty morning came the four-year-old 330,000-ton supertanker Venoil. It was carrying 250,000 tons of crude oil from the Iranian petroleum port at Kharg Island and was bound for Nova Scotia. At 9:39, the Venoil plowed into another ship. As coincidence would have it, the second ship was Venoil's sister Venpet, traveling in ballast in the opposite direction. Both supertankers had been built at the same yard in Japan at a cost of $28 million each; both were owned by the Bethlehem Steel Corp., and chartered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: The Wreck of the Two Sisters | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

...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

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Birth of BophuthaTswana | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

Other flourishing samizdat periodicals include Bratniak (Fraternity), a student publication produced in the port city of Gdansk, Postep (Progress), a magazine devoted to the problems of Poland's farmers, and Puls (Pulse), a literary journal from Lodz that was devoted this month to official censorship in the Polish movie industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISM: Two Victories for the Word | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

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