JAMES RICHARD MARIE MANCHAM once tasted power. He was the founding President of the Republic of Seychelles –-a tiny Republic, if you want, but also one of the most beautiful countries in the world. Unfortunately the Seychelles became "strategic territory." In the early sixties, JRM stuck his neck out when the US Air Force decided that it would be in the US national interest to build a Satellite Tracking Station atop of Seychelles main Island of Mahé in the middle of the Indian Ocean to gather military intelligence over a then aggressive Soviet Union.