61. Critics say the tax fails to distinguish between tourists and people visiting the islands for other reasons. 62. Cuba has refused to permit a specially appointed U.N. rapporteur to visit the island, arguing that he was controlled by the United States. 63. Darwin, who visited the islands, wrote that the unusual development of species there gave him the first ideas for his theory of evolution. 64. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz visited the island under heavy security Monday. 65. Di Tella said recently he wanted to get around a ban on Argentines visiting the islands by using a non-Argentine passport. 66. Dr. Peter Baxter of Cambridge University visited the island last week to assess the air quality. 67. Early this week, Liu Gangqi, deputy secretary-general of a semi-official Chinese body handling talks with Taiwan, visited the island. 68. Emergency services officials are due to visit the island next week to deliver food and water tanks. 69. First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton visited the island during her goodwill tour last year. 70. Former U.S. Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien also visited the islands last year. |