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Beyond Mururoa's reef, a high seawall protects the atoll from natural storms and from tidal waves occasionally heaved up by the underground nuclear explosions. A second, lower seawall also surrounds the atoll. The single entrance to the lagoon within is only a few yards wider than the beam of a medium-size oceangoing ship. Protest vessels have been aiming at this breach since 1972, and last month the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior II, a successor to the Rainbow Warrior blown up by the French at Auckland, New Zealand, in 1985, was rammed by a French warship as it tried...
...Baker and Whiting are not headed for the entrance. They will abandon their Zodiac four or five miles out at sea and negotiate the reef with the kayaks. Reaching land, they will hide the kayaks and climb both seawalls with grappling hooks. With luck they will have a day or so for mischief before they are caught. The men plan to tag Mururoa's buildings with Greenpeace stickers and graffiti, slip notes to some of the press people invited by the French to witness the explosions, write a few postcards of Mururoa and drop them into the PX mail slot...
...more extreme case of Casablancitis than Kitaj. His work harps on the theme of displacement, loss, nostalgia. You get it at full strength in The Autumn of Central Paris (After Walter Benjamin), 1972-73, with its diagonal mass of cafa habituas like creatures clinging insecurely to a reef-the whole structure, it seems, being undermined by a weird red figure among the red chairs in the foreground, indifferently wielding a pick...
...Guam has a reef all around it," Cole says. "Myboat got stuck on the reef. I opened the ramp tolet the soldiers out. The water came in, and theboat sank," Cole says. The boat was latersalvaged, he says, because "the water was not verydeep...
...them we lost our private rooms; out with thebed, in with the double-bunk (happily, SibylBeckett '44 and I had fun, despite the crowding).Breakfast became self service, and rationing tookhold (mournfully did I stare into a fullhalf-gallon of coffee, to view the bottom clear asa coral reef in Tahiti--you had to drink it all toget any kick...