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Nuclear(cid:1) Colonialisln(cid:1) Proponents of a nuclear-free Pacific are look ing with alarm as the U.S. and France extend their influence in Fiji and Micronesia. The Commonwealth withdrew aid to Fiji after 1987's coups and France is providing an aid grant of A$17.9 million for local develop ment. A mixture of grants and bank credits, much is expected to go to the sugar and tour ism industries. No military assistance de ma71fkd by Fiji has been forthcoming. Briga dierRabukahas formally relinquishedconlrol to a civilian government, but retains the pow erful Ministry for Home Affairs and the army remains in conlrol of Radio Fiji. A family car was lifted off the Eyre The presenceof AUSlralianand U.S. naval Highway by a bright white, egg fleets in Fiji at the time of the coup which shaped object with a yellow centre deposed the anti-nuclear Labour coalition near the Western/South Australia may be a coincidence, but there are reports border on January 20th. thatC.I.A.-Irainedspecialists were flown in to execute the coup. At 5.30am Faye Knowles. 48, and her The U.S. is also extending its influence in three sons were driving from Perth to Mel Papua Niugini. Green Beret "special advi bourne in a FordTelstarwhen they swerved to sors" are already training and directing local miss a large glowing object on the road about troops, as refugees continue to cross the Irian 40km west of Mundrabilla. The Telstar was Jaya/P.N.G. border. Incursions by Indonesian chased at speeds of up to 200krn/h by the forces are increasing in number and scale. object. "A bright light appeared behind us so we Delau Fights for Nuclear- stopped to investigate," said Sean Knowles. "It gave us a shock so weran back through the Free Constitution bushes." MIcronesia, the last remaIning U.N. Trust Telstar Lifted Territory, is the ONLY one not to gain full Jndependence from the adminislrating au Sean, 21, told police: "Mum was flooring it thority -the U.S. along the highway. We were doing about 110 The republic of Belau (Palau), with a [kph] whenitcameoverusandsuddenlylifted population of 15,000, has struggled for full the car off the road. We felt the thump on the independence since 1979 when it drew up its roof and then it started lifting us. We were constitution. To the alarm of US officials. rHghtenedandbegan to yellbutourvoiceshad Article XIII Section 6 stated: "Harmful sub changed." Their~bicesbecame distorted and stances such as nuclear, chemical, gas or everything seemM to happen inslow motion. biological weapons intended for use in war Mrs Knowles reached out oflhe car and fare, nuclearpowerplants, andwastemateri placedherhandon theobject, telling her$OllS als therefrom, shall!Wt be used, tested, stored thatitfeltUke arubbenuctionpad, lindpulled or disposed ofwithin the territorialjurisdic her hlltld back quickly. The UFO dropped the tionofPalau, withouttheexpressapproval of car backonto the road. ripping off • mofrack !Wt less than three-fourths ofthe votes cast in andcauslng areartyr-e.LO blowout.The family a referendum submiued on this specific ques ran i.Iuoothe bushes and hid for 30...m.inute:s. tion." then reJUmed to repait.the tyre - but COUldn'L Since then a number of referenda have fmel Ii suitcase stored on the roofrtl:Clk:. been held, with the US insisting onmaking the The Knowles sped offumU th~ Palauans vote and vote again, until they vote to allow the US continued nuclear access to the islands. Until then the US won't allow the Constitution to be passed. They have used a wide array of "dirty tricks" to influence vot ers, including misleading information and the intimidation and murder of proponents of the nuclear-free Constitution. reached a roadhouse at Mundmbilla. There they met a ~k driver who told. them (and later police) that he'd been folloWed west along the high way by It bright glowing obj~l!!:ls ofthe carto the Forensic Science Centre,;"ho pronounced it was burned rubber particles. Independent Sightings A sighting also came from fishermen lOOkm away. Senior Sgt Jim Furnell in charge (If Ceduna Police told reporters: "Ano~report came infrom the pilot of':turm ~tting-plane Ihman hour earlier, Th.c family then wo\'o 60Qlqn nan-stop to Ceduna in South A1Jstralia and inf.ormed police. A own 6f detectives- scmt sample..'\o£blaclcash wltichcoatmitheoutside flying over theGreat Aus1'nili.anBight,Besaw the object over the sea and saw it sit above a trawler below. 'The Irawler crew have since told how they were disturbed by the bright light, came out on deck but could not speak properly. When the object disappeared they went slraight to the marine radio to report what had happened." The object was observed by the Knawles foraboutninetyminutes, andifindependl:ndy sighted in the Bight it's impossible to explain the sighting as 'dry lightning'. a meteoroid shower or refraction of distant lights. An interesting coincidence is that 24 hours later the greatest series of earthquakes in Australia's history began near Tennant Creek. Long-lastingballs ofplasmacausedby static charges have often been observed prior to quakes. Ionised gases would explain voice changes. Another terrestrial explanation is a secret military weapon (the Knowles' sighting was very close to a vast joint US-British military landholding covering most oftheGreat Victo ria Desert). This was the third UFO incident in Ute Nullubor in the past month. Two of them n:ported Were as 'egg-shaped'. The third, a week,before the Knowles' sighting, was by a womlQ1 motorist near the Eyre Highway out sideM undrabilla who reportedseeing a brigpt light shaped like an "electric light globe". Who knows? Perhaps it's the Wandjini Aboriginal Dreamtime spirits who've awed humans in the area for tens of millenia ..