"Acrobatic" road
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plan for Tahiti under fire
Prom a Papeete correspondent Le Journal de Tahiti, one c
Papeete’s three daily newspaper
recently launched a trenchant a tack on General de Gaulle’s pla to build a road through Tahiti rugged and mountainous intern
(PIM, Aug., p. 49).
Le Journal, which generally 100 l with favour on de Gaulle and h works, said the projected road wi “ridiculous” and would serve r useful purpose.
The plan to build the road wi announced by General de Gaul during a visit to Tahiti in Septembe 1966, when he said that the ro£ would “commemorate for ever” tl nuclear testing project at Mururc Atoll {PIM, Oct, 1966, p. 11).
In attacking the trans-island roe plan, Le Journal de Tahiti said th; the money for the project could 1 spent to much better advantage i improving the existing coast roa round the island. This road cove 160 kilometres, or approximately 1C miles.