By Journal on November 14, 2025
Bikini, Bikini Atoll, Kili, radiation death
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Journal 11/10/1982 P2 EditorialLast month, a boy from Kili died in Honolulu of cancer, according to one of their leaders. The boy was born on Bikini in the early 1970s and lived there until the people were moved in 1978 due to high radiation accumulation in their bodies. One must wonder, was he a victim […]
By Journal on November 7, 2025
RMI Attorney General, RMI courts, RMI fraud, RMI National Police, Tubosoye Brown
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Journal 11/5/1982 P1 New power 30 Nov.The new power plant should be able to supply power by the end of November, RepMar project coordinator Jim Abernathy said during a tour of the new power plant. Abernathy said by the time testings are done, two generators will be able to run. Testing on the other two […]
By Journal on October 31, 2025
Israel, rmi poultry project, Shaul Eliat
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Journal 10/29/1982 P1 Washington talks on Kwaj/CompactPresident Amata Kabua returned to the Marshalls October 28 following the talks in Washington concerning Kwajalein use payments. Asked if he had brought back a good deal, Kabua responded, “Ask the Kwajalein people to respond first, then I’ll respond.” Attorney General Carl Ingram described the negotiations with the US […]
By Journal on October 24, 2025
RMI Nuclear Tribunal
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Journal 10/26/1982 P1 KAC says good news from WashingtonStatement of Kwajalein Atoll Corporation Chairman Ataji Balos: “The news we bring with us, we believe, is good. For the past three weeks, we have been in Washington, DC in meetings with top officials of the US Defense Department, as well as President Amata Kabua and Attorney […]
By Journal on October 17, 2025
Deloitte audit, Marshall Islands Social Security Administration, MISSA
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Journal 10/15/1982 P1 Kwaj getting ready to celebrateReports from Ebeye say that Senator Imada Kabua is telling the Kwajalein people that there is tentative agreement between the US and Kwajalein landowners for payments of $13 million per year and a 30-year term for US lease fo the Kwajalein Missile Range. Other reports say Senator Ataji […]
By Journal on October 10, 2025
RMI population
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Journal 10/8/2025 P1 Kwaj talks continueA second day of meetings in Washington, DC between Kwajalein landowners, RepMar and the US Defense Department has been completed without any announcement of the results. From reliable sources, the following picture emerges: The ending of the demonstration on Kwajalein and Roi-Namur Islands is a result of an agreement between […]
By Journal on October 3, 2025
Guam International Film Festival, Jack Niedenthal, Lañinbwil's Gift, Suzanne Chutaro
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Journal 10/1/1982 P1 Kwajalein talks underway in WashingtonThe talks in Washington, DC on Kwajalein are scheduled for October 2. The interim use agreement for Kwajalein Atoll use by the military expired yesterday (September 30). It contains a renewal clause which says that the governments expect to renew it subject to satisfactory progress toward a free […]
By Journal on September 26, 2025
RMi tax revenues, Toke Sawej
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Journal 9/28/1982 P1 President heads to Washington; Some Kwajalein landowners already therePresident Amata Kabua left last night headed for Washington, DC and talks with US officials on increased assistance to Kwajalein Atoll where the US conducts strategic missile tests. Kwajalein landowners have said they will spread out from their occupation in camps on 1 October […]
By Journal on September 19, 2025
Bikini resettlement, Japanese television, Joe Murphy, Kili island, Kunioka
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Journal 9/8/1978 P1 Stop itThis is the second time it happened, and maybe, in fifty years time or so when it is alleged that another attempt at resettlement will be possible, we may very well have a chance to do this crap again. This is the big deal week all the newsmen came from around […]
By Journal on September 12, 2025
Joe Murphy, King Web Press, Marshall Islands Journal, Micronitor
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Journal 9/13/1982 P1 Negotiations to be held in Washington if Kwaj occupation endsA group of Kwajalein landowners passed through Majuro September 12 on their way home from talks in Honolulu concerning terms on which they will make their atoll available for US missile testing. Iroij Kotak Loeak said they would be going to Washington, DC […]