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...Indian taxi drivers from their vehicles, beating them and breaking car windows. The mob then charged 1,000 Indians in a city park and began punching and kicking them. An army unit finally had to be called to assist police in breaking up the melee. Both Australia and New Zealand had ships standing by near the port of Suva to bring out their nationals in case the rioting escalated...
Racial conflict was also behind an attempted skyjacking in Fiji last week. An Indian airport worker, Amzad Ali, took over an Air New Zealand 747 that was making a stopover between Tokyo and Auckland, New Zealand. Armed with dynamite and a knife, he threatened to blow up the aircraft unless all ousted government leaders were released. Ali allowed the 105 passengers and 23 crew members to disembark but held captive the captain, the first officer and the | flight engineer. After six tense hours, the flight engineer ended the siege by hitting the hijacker over the head with a bottle...
Fiji's relations with its neighbors have suffered a setback. Air New Zealand has suspended flights to Fiji, and labor unions in Australia, whose government refused to recognize the interim military council, have forced its % planes to fly empty into Fiji before taking normal loads out. Maritime unions in both countries have also banned the handling of cargo going to Fiji. No matter what happens now, the island paradise will never again be quite the same...
...week stunned a country that, from its first sighting by European explorers in 1643, seemed to be stirred only by the tide washing over coral reefs into palm-fringed lagoons. It was the first military takeover ever in the South Pacific. Fiji's democratic neighbors, including Australia and New Zealand, unanimously condemned Rabuka's actions. Even more disturbing was the coup's racist factor. Rabuka and his colleagues were expressing the resentment of ethnic Fijians against the recent political inroads of ethnic Indians. Bavadra's government, elected just last month, was the first with a majority of Indian politicians...
Rabuka's takeover was slowly, if incredulously, accepted by Fijians, though some banks reported queues of people withdrawing money. Elsewhere the outcry against the coup was loud and clear. Prime Minister David Lange of New Zealand and Prime Minister Bob Hawke of Australia conferred by phone, then condemned the coup. Hawke called the events a "tragedy," and said he hoped that "parliamentary democracy can be restored." Both men were expected to exert diplomatic pressure on the regime. However, each ruled out military intervention. Washington, too, expressed concern at the overthrow of Bavadra...