Word: tahiti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cannibals & Curry. For 66-year-old Eric de Bisschop, skipper of the raft Tahiti Nui II, it was a familiar gamble. All his days he had given odds to death and won. Born near the French seaport of Calais, the son of a wealthy and aristocratic family, De Bisschop at 14 ran away from a Jesuit seminary, signed 'on as cabin boy on a sailing ship that beat its way around Cape Horn...
...while De Bisschop settled down to the quiet life as French consul in Honolulu. But Thor Heyerdahl's exploit in sailing Kon-Tiki from Peru to Tahiti set him off again. Determined to reverse Heyerdahl's course, De Bisschop pushed off from Tahiti on a similar raft, traveled 5,000 miles, only to have the raft break up under him in a tremendous gale 840 miles from the coast of Chile. Besides the adventure of it, De Bisschop hoped to prove that Polynesian seafarers had colonized all the Pacific from Indonesia to South America. Last April he left...
...water, exotic fauna and flora. Last year he tied himself under a canoe, inspected coral reefs off the Colombian coast of South America while an Indian paddled. This week he is filming near Mexico's Coronado Islands. Soon he will scout the waters off Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti-as well as Samoa, where some World War I German cruisers are rumored to lie photogenically scuttled...
...resounding name of Jean-Baptiste Céeran-Jeérusalemy and his governing R.D.P.T. Party (Rassemblement Democratique des Populations Tahitiennes) put forward a bill in the territorial assembly to impose an income tax, and announced a drive to seek independence from France for a new Republic of Tahiti...
...week's end a petition signed by prominent islanders was on its way to Paris urging President Rene Coty not to grant Tahiti an independence it does not want. Politician Ceéran-Jeérusalemy had second thoughts as well, and put in a long-distance call to President Coty to promise that he and his entire R.D.P.T. Party were "indefectibly" attached to France after...