Liner forced back
More than 1500 antiCommunist protesters forced a ship, which was carrying the Soviet Ambassador to Australia, to leave the port of Noumea in New Caledonia yesterday without setting down her passengers. The protesters scrawled “Russians out of the Pacific” or/the ship’s hull and began to cut the cables tying the vessel to the dockside. Beer bottles were hurled from the ship at
the demonstrators, who retaliated with stones. The only visible damage to the Alexander Pushkin was a smashed porthole.. The demonstration was protesting against the signing of a fishing agreement by the Soviet Ambassador with the Pacific Island State of Vanuatu (formerly the" New Hebrides.) The accord has been widely criticised as giving the Kremlin its first foothold in the Pacific.
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Press, 4 February 1987, Page 8
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