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...clocks on Suva's gray stone government buildings struck 10 a.m., the eleven men moved silently into Parliament. One wore a smart lightweight jacket over a striped shirt and tie and a sulu skirt wrapped around his waist, appropriate attire for the steamy, tropical capital of Fiji. The others, however, wore army fatigues and carried machine guns. Inside the chamber 51 members of the Fijian Parliament sat listening as a colleague expounded on the history of the islands. "Peace and harmony is the governing principle on which the Fijians have been running their lives," said Taniela Veitata. "This...
Barely two weeks after the election, 6,000 people marched through the streets of Suva to protest that only seven of the ruling coalition's 28 M.P.s were indigenous Fijians. The demonstrators declared they had no confidence in the new government and demanded changes in the constitution to guarantee Fijian rule. In the weeks that followed, Bavadra's opponents announced plans for a campaign of civil disobedience. Government buildings were damaged in a series of gasoline-bomb attacks...
...becoming a British colony and the fourth birthday of its independence. Robed officials crouched in ritualistic gestures of respect, schoolchildren lined the roads and waved, and a considerate, perhaps mischievous chieftain gave Prince Charles a bowl of kava, a very potent local brew. Later, at a reception held in Suva, Fiji's capital, a less formally attired Charles witnessed at close range still more of the island's fundamental splendors, dancing in the balmy night with Helen Frankhen, a student at the University of the South Pacific, who had taken advantage of a South Seas tradition to invite...
...TYLER SUVA, FIJI...
...Australian airman, navigator on the 1931 globe-girdling, record-setting (8 days, 15 hrs., 51 mins.) flight of the Winnie Mae, which brought international fame to him and to one-eyed Pilot Wiley Post (who crashed and died with Will Rogers in 1935); of a heart attack; in Suva, Fiji Islands. Gatty developed, tested and taught a stargazing navigational system that guided (via his The Raft Book) many wartime downed flyers to safety. In recent years he bought a small island in the Fiji group, founded (1951) and operated the successful three-plane Fiji Airways, became a member...