On January 30th, 1972, a short item appeared in the New York Times under the headline “South Sea Reef Proclaimed A Republic by 3 Americans”. It describes an effort by a group of libertarians and capitalists to claim a strip of territory near Fiji and Tonga for a new, free republic. In doing so, they hoped to escape from the “high taxes, riots, drugs and…
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