And yet plans for the port at La P rouse are going forward. January 30-February 14. This is the first time the festival has been planned for a two week span of time. Te Rapa Nui, The Gazette of Easter Island' is the name of a new paper to which you now can subscribe. Issued four times a year, the most recent issue is 8 pages, some in color.
Text is in English as well as Spanish.
The current issue has articles on the recent festival in Samoa, the National Park, and the arrival of the King of Spain. A few recent and famous visitors to Rapa Nui include the Norwegian explorer, Thor Heyerdahl, who made a visit to the island as part of a documentary about the investigations he began in 1955. Japanese Prince Hitachi and his wife stayed three days on the island as part of their tour to Chile. The petition was presented before the Electoral Tribunal at Valparaiso by Antonio Oneto, attorney representing Alberto Hotus, Marcelo Pont, Claudio Cristino, Enrique Pakarati, and Rodrigo Norambuena. A recent communication from the island expressed anxiety over the problem of mixing alcohol and driving.