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Environmentalists are being offered an assortment of offbeat tours. Among the possibilities is a trip to Micronesia that includes scuba diving in the giant Truk Lagoon, which is littered with the hulks of Japanese warships sunk in World War II. Other groups will visit the headwaters of the Amazon, the Ruwenzori (Mountains of the Moon) Range between Uganda and the Republic of Zaire, the New Zealand and New Guinea highlands and Australia's Great Barrier Reef...
...month, Kahn is traveling to Asia for six or seven weeks to cover Expo '70. His itinerary will also include Taiwan, Hong Kong, Cambodia, and Thailand. Even though Kahn has made many trips to Asia and has written a book on Micronesia, he still has never been to Vietnam. "I hope to get in there for a day or two to satisfy my curiosity as to what Saigon looks like...
Recently the Civil Aeronautics Board, with its three Democrats voting aye and its two Republicans nay, recommended that Continental get routes from the East Coast through the Southwest to Micronesia, Australia and New Zealand. Last week Nixon again vetoed the award to Continental. He strongly suggested that the South Pacific route will go instead to financially troubled Eastern Air Lines, in which Laurance Rockefeller holds a substantial interest...
...this Micronesian, your article "Remembering an Adopted Cousin" [May 23] is one of the best things that has happened to Micronesia since 1947, when the United Nations handed Micronesia over to the U.S. under a trusteeship arrangement. The U.S.'s negligence towards the "adopted cousin" is portrayed in Willard Price's America's Paradise Lost...
...What are you going to do about Micronesia?' inquired the reporter...