Manuscript/Mixed Material Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974
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Image 1 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 Friends of Micronesia FALL 1973 NEWSLETTER TOURISM A SPECIAL REPORT VOL 3 NO 4 STA TUS HIGHL IGHTS ROI NAMUR BATTLE RAGES BIKINI STILL DANGEROUS PEOPLE DEMAND COMPENSATION POLITICAL EDUCATION CENSORED
- Date: 1977
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Image 2 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 T inian Closed The US Departments of Defense and Interior have ordered a moratorium on all further land transactions on Tinian and have cancelled all recent land leases This also ends all…
- Date: 1977
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Image 3 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 Rolm Namur Battle On The military has blasted bombed and burned our islands and then tried to avoid the responsibility of paying for the destruction they have caused If the US is…
- Date: 1977
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Image 4 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 The United States Government is deliberately withholding a political education program from the people of Micronesia according to a charge by Senator Lazarus Salii of the Con gress of Micronesia Salii who…
- Date: 1977
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Image 5 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 iinik Danger In August 1968 President Johnson announced that some of the islands on Bikini atoll would be cleaned up and returned to the people of Bikini for resettlement Certainly this was…
- Date: 1977
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Image 6 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 Who Do You Trust0 Senator John Mangefel of Yap District who is a self professed advocate of free association with the United States has begun to have his doubts as to the…
- Date: 1977
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Image 7 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 i r Y C J i TOURISM IS MICRONESIAS FASTEST GROWING INDUSTRY IN FACT IT IS MICRONESIAS ONLY GROWING INDUSTRY RELIANCE ON A SINGLE INDUSTRY ESPECIALLY ONE AS FICKLE AS TOURISM IS…
- Date: 1977
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Image 8 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 local labor market and lack of training much higher paid foreigner workers are imported In a hotel with four or five foreign management personnel and 20 or so local employees combined foreign…
- Date: 1977
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Image 9 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 of the mortgage in the hotel to these firms although they will not under present US interpretation of the rules be allowed to convert this equity into stock until a later date…
- Date: 1977
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Image 10 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 Who Said Yes The key to tourist development in Micronesia is the con struction of new enlarged airfields capable of handling long range jet aircraft that can make Micronesia a stop over…
- Date: 1977
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Image 11 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 ment of tourism as the primary means of economic develop ment The PEIS states the Federal Aviation Administration Pacific Asia Region believes that Truk could become one of the most popular resort…
- Date: 1977
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Image 12 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 Contempt Charges A dispute with potentially serious effects on both the future status negotiations and the relationship between the Congress of Micronesia and the US Government erupted on Saipan in July The…
- Date: 1977
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Image 13 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 t LAND THE PRIME ISSUE Twentythree landowners from Dublon Island in Truk District have filed an action in the Trust Territory High Court to quiet title to twentyfiveparcels of land claimed by…
- Date: 1977
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Image 14 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 Green Berets in Micronesia At least 1000 US Army Special Forces troops are now in the vicinity of Mindanao in the southern Philippines where civ war is raging against the Marcos dictatorship…
- Date: 1977
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Image 15 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 17 L1L 5 A T sx J a T _ k 7 f L k 1 y L t 7f S P9tIz93tv0 A g _t i i r i JAM n 1…
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Image 16 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 PapersLeaked A member of the Marianas State Commission has leaked copies of the position papers used by the US and the Mari anas Political Status Commission MPSC in their May 1973 talks…
- Date: 1977
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Image 17 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 19 KEEP ON READING KEEPON David and Doreen Labby Old Glory and the New Yap Natural History June July 1973 pp 2637 Alkire William Introduction to the Peoples and Cultures of Micronesia…
- Date: 1977
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Image 18 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 FOM Palau FOM Conference Development Corporation Francisco Uludong manager of the Palau Fishing Authority and Johnson Toriobiong an attorney and expert of the law of the sea Many people from the com…
- Date: 1977
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Image 19 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 21 We took care to show nothing but kindness to the natives and tried to please them in every way for after all these nude barbarians were our customers and deserved to…
- Date: 1977
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Image 20 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 Ng TANAKA ARE YOU LISTENING Dear Mr Premier Your writer is a citizen of the Truk District of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands also known as Micronesia I am the…
- Date: 1977
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Image 21 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 THE DEATH OF LE KOJ ANJAI N Ed The following letter is an account of the life of Lekoj Anjain one of over 200 victims of radioactive fallout from a March 1…
- Date: 1977
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Image 22 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 r to j LVAJ 0 Micronesia Fact sheet with a map 104 each 10 or more 54 each By the People Micronesia Informationincludes 1 SolomonReportcolo nizing 10 2 Thomas Gladwin Self Reliance…
- Date: 1977
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Image 24 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 Up front Happy New Year There is good cause for celebration 1973 was a year of victory in Micronesias continuing struggle for self determination A number of major battles were won and…
- Date: 1977
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Image 25 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 protest by Micronesians the people of Micronesia will have effective sup port for at least one more year One of the most important cases of all is coming up in San Francisco…
- Date: 1977
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Image 26 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 The United States has agreed to return to Micronesia all public holdslands it now or slated for futur useThe U S cur ently cont controls militaryy the 60 of the ttal land…
- Date: 1977
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Image 27 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 1 ly Zoyo Vzgzl EXCLUSIVE REPORT TOKYO Daniel Lopez is waging a oneman battle in Tokyo for his father and 16 fellow islanders who died fighting for the Japanese Army is World…
- Date: 1977
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Image 28 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 Department Another problem is total claims filed by Micronesians far ex ceed US and Japanese expectations Unless additional compensa tion is provided no Micronesians including Lopez will get an ade quate settlement…
- Date: 1977
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Image 29 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 WESTERN PACIFIC MICRONESIA t tCTlcR 1plaER Of S IT a T_R rAS_ LATl3 ONLY PRACL US MILITARI 5ASES PROPLSro US MtIT4 y FACi_ITi_S n rn I TnUS TLRATOtit W PAC S AIDS…
- Date: 1977
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Image 30 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 e To date there has been no official annoucement of plans for Tinian in the US But in a June 1 1973 radio address to the people of Tinian and its neighboring…
- Date: 1977
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Image 31 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 orage vill i 1 ase IV sing son ink 1 ers F me ise iid se ise 11 e n e PRO MILITARY MAYOR CHARGED The pro military mayor of Tinian Antonio…
- Date: 1977
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Image 32 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 by Senator Frank C Lujan Chairman Guam Political Status Commission The tragedy of Guam is that many of our citizens do not recognize that Guam remains a classic example of an exploited…
- Date: 1977
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Image 33 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 re d S ple lent uam nic cted I Independence for Palau1 In a rally held in Koror on November 2 Senator Roman Tmetuchl told an assembled crowd of high school students…
- Date: 1977
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Image 34 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 J W W t W J am CLO LU 11J J D O mmi W Ln W 1 O 1 Be informed Subscribe to one of the papers in Micronesia send for…
- Date: 1977
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Image 35 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 A SPECIAL REPORT THE MICRONESIAN ECONOMY THE FLOODGATES ARE NOW OPENING AND MICRONESIA IS BEING DELUGED BY FOREIGN MONEY SOME IMPEDIMENTS STILL KEEP THE GATES FROM OPENING WIDER BUT SAIPAN IS GETTING…
- Date: 1977
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Image 36 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 how one night there was a knock on his door by a prospective Japanese investor who left behind an expensive 35 mm camera as a gift Other Palauans tell the same stories…
- Date: 1977
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Image 37 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 i ruction Facilities D avoid the US a to i showed i t legal mploy rican the foreign ith my job Filipino f its first D e s e n done The…
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Image 38 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 As population is drawn into the towns economists and planners often welcome the expanded potential labor force as a source of future productivity Actually however the vast majority of those who obtain…
- Date: 1977
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Image 39 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 N Must Micronesia to the limits in the direction of wasteful con sumption before it can rally itself and redirect its resources to wards increasing its ability to produce SALARIES In the…
- Date: 1977
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Image 40 of Friends of Micronesia, 1973-1974; Fall 1971, Winter 1974 sorts Other countries that have had large segments of their popula tion unemployed for wages like Micronesia have chosen to main tain low wage rates to encourage extensive use of more labor…
- Date: 1977