Daily News Channel
INTERNATIONAL “Who Rules the World?” Opens, most auspiciously, the political New Year 1928. Not since the World War has a twelvemonth commenced with all nations so substantially at peace, with all major governments so markedly stable.
Guided by burning flares, a transport plane dipped down out of the night over Biafra last week and landed with a shipment of condensed food for the secessionist state’s starving population.
Many a pygmy-size paradise of late has attained the badge of nationhood —such as Cyprus, Rwanda, Burundi, Zan zibar. But all stand as giants beside a midget that last week clamored to join the gang: the Pacific island of Nauru.A coral-and-palm flyspeck 1,300 miles northeast of Australia, Nauru has an area of 8 square miles and a population of 2,700