The World - News from Aug. 6, 1985

The president of the tiny Pacific island nation of Kiribati, Ieremia Tabai, said he tentatively plans to sign a controversial agreement that gives the Soviet Union rights to fish in his country’s huge resource zone for a year in return for $2 million. Tabai said critics of the pact have shown a “patronizing and hypocritical, colonial mentality” by suggesting that the Soviets would establish a base on Kiribati, formerly the Gilbert Islands.