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...issue might be decided by the 2.5% of the voters who reside in France's overseas departments and territories, raising the bizarre possibility that a matter of crucial importance to all of Europe as well as France could turn on the whims of islanders in faraway Martinique or Tahiti...
Club members vote every three months on where they would like to go. Freelandia has recently obtained landing rights in Hong Kong, Colombia and Yugoslavia, and is negotiating for permission to land in Greece, Turkey, India, Bali, Afganistan, Tahiti and Australia. Eventually the club hopes to offer round-the-world flights for $300 to $400 (on commercial airlines that would cost about...
...moral sense of a gang of street bashers." The words were blunter than most, but the sentiment was echoed around much of the world. After the French detonated their first bomb of the series two weeks ago at the lonely atoll of Mururoa, about 750 miles southeast of Tahiti, Peru broke off diplomatic relations with France. Last week 13 other nations, including Australia, Japan and Canada, sent protests to Paris...
...spoke only four hours after the French government set off a second nuclear device on Muraroa Atoll at 7:03 p.m. EDT Saturday. France exploded its first nuclear bomb on the atoll, located 720 miles southeast of Tahiti, a week earlier...
Many have already carried banners of protest in Paris, as well as in London, Tokyo, The Hague, Sydney, Wellington, Lima and Istanbul. Last week Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, the influential French politician and publisher, flew off to organize a demonstration in Tahiti. On his arrival, he lauded those willing to risk their lives in the explosion zone-particularly Jacques de Bollardière, 65, a wartime military hero who had resigned as a general in 1961 over the mistreatment of Algerian captives. The former general, said Servan-Schreiber, "is saving the honor of the French army." The American couple...