By Journal on June 23, 2017
family planning, over-population, population control
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Journal 6/20/1975 P2 No end The following is addressed to the management of the Wonder of L’Etao movie theater: I would like to express my chagrin at your dubious business practice June 16 of taking movie-goers’ money, and then announcing before the climax of the show that the final reel was missing. L’Etao, you’ve certainly […]
By Journal on June 9, 2017
ADB, Asian Development Bank, hardships, Pacific Human Development Report
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Journal 6/6/1975 P2 Hearing grievances The Trust Territory Personnel Board spent the past week on Majuro to review several grievance cases involving hospital personnel. After formal review sessions, the board was invited to question and answer in a session with the Marshall Islands Nurses Association. Board members on Majuro were: Boyd Mackenzie, former Distad and […]
By Journal on May 26, 2017
coconut, Jerry Kramer, tobolar
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Journal 5/23/1975 P11 Local company sets dividend at 30 percent There’s probably a first for the Marshalls: The Majuro Stevedore & Terminal Company at its first annual shareholders meeting announced a dividend of 30 percent of the value of the stock held by investors. The was some back and forth between attending stockholders on how […]
By Journal on March 9, 2017
Doris Lani, Herine Hampton, Judy Bennett, Salome Alfred, World Day of Prayer
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Women gathered across the globe to celebrate the 2017 World Day of Prayer. In Majuro the ladies from Assumption, Morning Star, the Reformed Christian Church, New Beginnings Assembly of God and the Salvation Army gathered at Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church to worship and celebrate their faith. They participated in a service that included […]
By Journal on February 23, 2017
Arawatau Miito, Bwanikatang Tebuanna, I-Kiribati, Karotu Tiba, Kwila 888, Tenanora Taiki, Toatu Tiwai, Yuan Tsai Chen
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ISAAC MARTY Three men and a teenage boy from Kiribati are thanking their luck that in today’s commercial fishery, many purse seiners employ helicopters to spot schools of tuna. Last week, a helicopter pilot from the vessel Kwila 888 made the astounding discovery not of a school of fish, but instead of two small boats […]
By Journal on October 28, 2016
Honolulu, Majuro, Spit City, spitters, spitting
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Journal 10/29/1976 P6 Zeder addresses Palau Legislature Fred Zeder addressed a joint session of the House of Chiefs and the House of elected members of the Palau District Legislature last week. Zeder told legislators that “during the period I have been in my position, I have reviewed the procedures used between Washington and the Trust […]
By Journal on August 19, 2016
NCT, nuclear, Nuclear Claims Tribunal, Paul Irujiman
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Journal 8/27/1976 P6 What They’ve Said by Mary Browning In the view of Donald F. McHenry, the problem of finding a proper political status for Micronesia has been essentially an unsuccessful effort to reconcile conflicting American and Micronesian interests. McHenry’s exploration of the problem has been published as Micronesia: Trust Betrayed, by the Carnegie Endowment […]
By Journal on February 11, 2016
ambassador, Joan Plaisted, Michael J. Senko, Michael Senko
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Journal 2/8/1974 P1 Colorado River tour group completes two tours to Arno They needed something to do in the winter off-season, so Jack Currey, owner of Western River Expeditions, came out to Micronesia last June to check the place out for possibilities. Apparently he found them here in the Marshalls, for in the past two […]