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Ever thought with longing how you would like to get away from it all? Ever had a dream about escaping to a remote tropical island? Here is one man who has achieved this.

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A 15-YEAR

LEASE

ON SOLITUDE

By DANIEL FARSON

[ORMAN FOWLER is n When he reached Bermuda handsome 29-year he started to search for his old American who new home and found it. in entirely sur- gives a first impression of Anegada,

wreck-strown the average boy next door. rounded by But he is far from that. His reefs. Fowler realised this short paat includes service was it. Not even his yacht with the Amurican navy, ing friends could visit him which he disliked intenscly, if there was no place to and two periods in a Greek anchor. monastery, which he found depressing.

He can now be found, with difficulty, on the remotest of the Virgin Isics where he lives a bare-foot, unclothed existence Com- pletely on his own.

This Robinson Crusoe life began in 1962 when he sailed across the Atlantic.

"In your own yacht?" I asked.

Fowler naked surprised. "Of course. I have money."

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"What do they speak?" "English, of course, But it's not easy to understand.”

Aneguda has no electricity, OF

istically choern the renolest roads, and Fowler has character corner, seven and a half miles native settlement from the

which be reaches by water.

"Why do all the natives Hve In a settlement?"

Fowler pointed to the mup and the old names of Bones Bay, Captain Keel's Polat, Spanish Windings Boy and Camp,

These are now Soldiers' Wash. blocked by silt, but there was

schooners

word of privateers able to raid the island for 1001 and slaves, so the natives moved

time when three-masted

Anegado, probably the most isolated point in the West Indies, is 11 miles long with the highert and only 34 feet. Sub-tropical, It does not have the lush vegeta- tion of a tropical island, but enjoys a perfect climate.

The

270. population is only and is rapidly decreasing. Fow- ler 15 the first white man to settle there since 1834.

hard Much of the island lo What do the natives think of

with millions of round you?

holes, picturesquely known us

to a settlement protected by

reets.

stone,

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"They

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THE MADMAN AND HIS

Buil

MAD

by Les Armour

MAGINE yourself an archaeologist of thou- sands of years hence. sifting through the wh re Moscow OBEC YOSE know that, Blood somewhere at hand, a great eity once the capital of a great labyrinth of tunnels You expect to find bricks and stones, perhaps some battered fragment of ♫ crude twentieth

cratury machine.

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Instead, you suddenly

upon

the ruins of great labyrinth of tunnels and. among them, you find Lences of masive murals-- grand and as vivid 118 anything ever devised for n

Byzantine emperor or Egyptian god.

A miracle

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MONUMENT

KRUSHCHEV BEFORE THE MICROPHONE

Your first thought must mighty monument to Pro- be that here lie the traces grенн. of

Russia's

spread into the Ukraine in the years before the First World War. Nikita listened and pon-

Very

The first pui Stalin In real need vi unshakable aitus

TI second In top p Stalin m even more urgent need of Ukrain who caule he trusted to clean up the Ukraine.

Unbeatable

Was

it. Krushchev was one again a hero.

NO TROUBLE

"I have 30 acres and have cleared Ave since moved in two years ago."

He showed me a photograph

of his home, a small wooden hut which he bought in the settle- ment and had rafted down in sections.

"Aren't there any sharks?"

"Yes, but they ignore me."

"And wild animals?"

"Iguanas," he said. "Sunie umes as large ne live feet

and terrifyingly beautiful. No, they're no trouble, they're very shy and they are vegetarian."

"This is fantastic!" I exclaim- ca. "Is there nothing wrong?”

of

After the war he went back to Moscow and sat quietly

"We might have a week waiting-and working at indus-

planning. When Stalin heavy rain," Fowler admitted, trial #ted. his perkóhei Successor | "und" then there are millione of) Malenkov took over. But Malen-mosquitoes, and sand-flies." kov did not data to doko on both Stalin's old Jebs-Secretary of the Party and Premier of the

"Ho notic

chost Lo be

his brother-in-law.

Malenkov gambled on the as- sumption new techncerts were stronger than old politicians. He policy introduced a moderate

the techno- designed to please

Krushchiev

obvious choice He owed everything to the party-the party which had Premter and Rave the secretary- educated him, fed him, given ship to him power. He was unlikely to Krushchev. waver.

He was a proletarian, pure, simple and proud. He was

Vi in the arts of educated noterlul

The com- progress. bination. surely, was unbeatable. In addition he had proved his ability, both the Ukraine and at the Academy, to held his own

the rough in

and tumble of political life.

now

crats.

Man of power

That

lle gambled wrongly. He could In 1938-already tried tested in high office undry close not control the machine. supervision-he was sen

חלונות

back free

to the Ukraine and given hand to clear up

The mess. From 118 onwards the Ukraine had sprouted every

of deviation known to the Com- munist world. The rebels, by turns.

WITD Czarists,

Men- sheviks, Trotskyfies anything to disrupt the hated Russlar. machine.

politicians just didn't co-operate, and the gap between titulor Power and actual power witien- ed. The man holding back was Krushchev.

Malenkov either gave up or was told to give up Krushchev, has the dutiful brother-in-law, apparently seen to it that things have not gone too badly, with

Matenkov. generous.

He can afford to be

With Krushchev came soine- For Krushchev is still the thing much nearer a slaughter mon with the power. He is an than a purge. fie did the job old-school politician who knows calmly, cooly, always legally; all the political ropes and who but Ukrainians by the tens of has gathered, over the years, By 1918, with the coming of thousands

to all the political strings imo his disappeared the revolution, he had become Siberia, and by the hundreds hands. At the some time he,

member of the H

Communist had their skulls smashed by the tox

too, La technocrat--and

dered.

a

a madman who wor.

For doing the impossible shipped a mad god, and that Nikita Krushchev was awarded

the Order of Lenin. this whs some temple for

most coveted bonour, the practicr of terrible

That pisade may provide

Party

400, By then, underground rites. The mur vital key

he had executioner's bullels. The sail technocrat who started at the to Krushchev's pt made his Arst big step up in the Stalinists were left fenderless. must have been mad, you panality Material success and world-he had ceased

to herd will

progress for Moscow mechanical reason,

provide

the plumb- sheep and learned two of his strongest nativations, ing trade. In a part of the world lica upon shifting. loose, But, more than that, Krushchev

where pipes were becoming soil. This boggy

great wants to be admired, to dazzle, numerous and plumbers ali too Whether Krushchev entirely temple could only have to stand out among the crowd. stood for a fleeting few kcore years at best before the rags-to-chsly, parallels rare, he was an important man, approved or not no man

fables which

it vanished for ever. Indeed,

It must have bein a miracle if I stood at all.

His career,

are

go inuch

American

tradition,

In a sense you would be right. The "madman" was Nikita Sergeyevich Krush- chev, his mad god was Pro- gress. But the ruins will not near

Breadbasket

on April 17, 1894. The geography

will be those of the Moscow important because it has play- underground.

ed a major role in his career.

Cut-throat

Desperate

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was.

in

the end.

rebel

Ixttom and row with the re- volution. He is the symbol of the Communist success story.

He has been too clever to try

COUD. Stalin's

He to repent icarmed, at first hand, how much blood had to be shed to establish He became active in the local say. He had his orders and he

dictatorship-and them promptly and

personal panly, worked hord, earnestly, executed

operation risky the a part of the even fanatically. In the end it efficiently. The unpleasant truth just how

his und

He has profited from Lenin's senle of values is not far distant got him where he wanted. He was that Russia was in danger

iD an industrial from that of the heroes in the was sent to Moscow's Industrial of losing the Ukraine, and the

Academy

to study engineering, breakaway of the Ukraine would warning:

lunt He had always dreamed of have meant the collapse of the society dictatorship cannot Inbles.

becoming an engineer, But there Soviet economy, and perhaps the for ever, for every new step in the industrialisation process re- was more to it than that, The end of the Soviet Union. Academy was Stalin's personal

Desperate situations require quires an educated man to con- He was born at Kaliknova, preparatory school, and it was tosperate measures, and Nikita trol it. And every educated man is potentially a thinking man Kursk, in the north- intended to produce the rulers Krushchev has always been

realist. Perhaps the West would who must, be those of a temple. They central region of the Ukraine, of the new technocracy,

do well not to forget that fact. ngainst tyranny.

In 1938 Krushchev became a Besides, Krushchev really does member of tho Supreme believe in the ideal of Material Praesidium of the Soviet Union Progrees. He really is interested The engineers said that The Ukraine the rich bread-

Russla has Krushchev, ex-shepherd boy, formalisation of his role as in the technocratic paradim, an underground railway in basket of modern

showed himself a member of the Party's Central His methods Moscow was an impractical always been easy pray for in- ex-plumber,

He was very near the top. farce. But Nikita Krush-vaders. The Russians and the more than able to held his own Committed,

slaughtered. one another the cut-throat politics of the

to He might easily have fallon Whatever his official job of chev said it was an urgent over centuries for its possession, big city. His first act was

the Germans marched the moment over the part hated take over the Academy's politic when Ukrainians necessity: London had an And

That attracted through the Ukraine and tal organisation.

that yours, he has rushed in to take Her rolled through

the attention of Kagonivitch, land of now purified souls pro- a leading hand in every now devised of the duced traitors by the thousands. industrial; programme the rough, tough boss

He did the obvious thing. In by the planners. In a country Moscow party machine.

Krushchev was 37 when he 1041 he WIS commissioned where the, price of failure ... is

in usually death and always graduated from the Academy, Lieutenant-General and put The old had been none other later ho was a member of the t

a man must That was in 1931, Three years

of guerilla defence in the least banishment,

really believe in the goal to take Nikita Krushchev.

Central Committee of the Com- With a diny army of person. responsibility for industrial Krushchev had become their munist Party. The next year he ally-picked me, he developed planning when he could easily master by the simple expedient was first Bocretary of the one of the most sklihil sabot- avoid IE Moscow must progress. of making himself one of the Moscow Party.

The

shephand tige organisations in history, The The only one of his many BC- And so Moscow, got an few Ukrainlane who could be boy had become political boss of Germans coult only retaliate complishments which he lets in underground -the

most trusted absolutely by the Rus the big city and, as a member with wholesale reprissia ngainst Who's Who is the construction grandiose, underground is lens.

of the Contral Committor, one the Ukrainian poptileilon. The of the Mostow Underground.. But all that comes Later in of the handful of men who now masters were thus mode It really in his temple. all the world.

the story.

controlled the nation.

worse than the okt and the......... What to wanta now are more Its decor would make a

Nikita's father.

What, happened in those for Ukrainian turned in full Byzantine palace, look like a miner. He was poor, uliterato years?

and harassed Hilero mon with temples for the sun god. And, the can got them by being and sometimes desperate. Nikita Two important things.- One wverything they had learned over them then he will be. Moural. monastery by comparison.

shepherd boy. Ho, was that Bualin had establistert the centuries,

If he cannot be le a mester. It has been a terror to became a

* himesif, se on absolute dictator. The tide of tho battle for of the other method. Remember the engineers who must too, was illiterate,

But great things were afoot The other, the Ukawa wan bon fuels was signined, and the the Ukraine maintain it. But it la in Russia, kod ške sobe of them yorblog

Movie Army (fraş, able to turn *

the

bath. "underground", Paris had a backed, for a time, by the "metro". New York had a Ukrainiens themselves,

who "subway." Could Moscow reasoned that the new master of could hardly be worse than the be shamed in the eyes the world?

A terror

old.

coal WASTA

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STUDIES

Sleeping in a hammock, living without a watch, only occasion- ally wearing clothes, balancing his days between physleal work and rental study. Fowler bas found contentment.

Why has be turned his back on rivilisation?

"My studies." Fowler tried to explain them but I could only grasp the word metaphysice. "I'm trying to reduce distrac- den to the inlnímum,” he said, "to Achieve n more profound Insight."

"Don't you misa companion- ship?"

Fowler shuddered

"Will you ever allow anyone to stay with you?" I asked

He shuddered again. "CCT-

tainly not," he said emphatically. "What do your family think?" I'm out of my mind,” **That he replied happily.

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