Word: archipelago
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lest they surrender their ships to hovering Dutch warships. As the government's fury at its own helplessness mounted, Premier Djuanda and Army Chief of Staff Major General Abdul Haris Nasution arbitrarily ruled that "all waters around, between and connecting the islands belonging to the Indonesian archipelago ... are an integral part of national waters, subject to the absolute sovereignty of Indonesia . . ." In Paris, Western diplomats promptly protested that this was an infringement of the freedom of the seas...
...Juan Islands, he soon learned, make no place for a 9-to-5 practice. To make emergency calls anywhere in the 200-sq.-mi. archipelago, Heath took flying lessons, bought a Piper Tri-Pacer. He keeps cars at Friday Harbor and Eastsound, and a third at Bellingham, where he takes his more serious cases for hospital treatment. He also added a 20-ft. cabin cruiser to his transport fleet, painted it shocking pink for easy visibility. He makes it a point to leave word of his whereabouts-even on his rare fishing trips-so that local pilots can find...
Today six hospitals provide free medical service to all of the sheikdom's 140,000 citizens, and malaria, once the scourge of Bahrein, is gone. Water from artesian wells flows into many Bahrein homes, and a dial telephone system links the archipelago's principal towns. And, at Belgrave's insistence, the accumulated reserve funds have been carefully invested abroad so that even when Bahrein's oil finally dries up−her proven reserves are only 200 million barrels v. Saudi Arabia's 35 billion barrels−Bahreinis should still enjoy a fair degree of prosperity...
From Y'Ami to Tawitawi, the 1,200-mile-long Philippine archipelago resounded for two months with politicians' haranguing voices, but the nation's No. 1 grassroots campaigner, the man who had most at stake in last week's off-presidential-year election, made only two major speeches. "I want to see if the people will fight my battle for me," said President Ramon Magsaysay...
...South Pacific's frigate birds have not the high standards of U.S. postmen through storm and sleet and snow and dark of night. But, in their slapdash way, the frigate birds do pretty well. For centuries, the islanders in France's remote Tuamotu archipelago have used the frigate bird to carry messages from island to island, putting their faith in the tropical laziness that prompts the birds to fly no farther than the nearest island. If the mail is not always delivered on time and seldom with any privacy, at least it costs nothing and there...