Journal 4/2/1982
P2 Status talks to resume on radiation
The status talks between the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the United States will resume this month, with meetings to be held in the Marshall Islands. That development was announced April 1 by Foreign Secretary Tony deBrum when he returned to Majuro from meetings in Honolulu with US Ambassador Fred Zeder. “Our meetings in Honolulu were very successful, the talks are back on track, and we are again looking forward to an early end to the status negotiations,” he said. “When the US comes to the Marshalls, we’ll be talking about the 177 issue, the radiation problems.” The talks broke down in mid-February (when the US) presented a new set of proposals that were unacceptable to the Marshallese. One of those unacceptable proposals was that the radiation issue not be discussed until the other issues had been resolved. At that point, the Marshallese said they would not talk any more until the radiation issue was moved to the top of the agenda.
P10 Alele Museum holds first general meeting
Three new members were elected to the Alele Museum board of directors in the corporation’s first annual meeting held last night at the Public Library. Elected for a one-year term were Alfred Capelle, Leonard deBrum and Marie Maddison. Present officers of Alele are Carmen Bigler, who is secretary of Internal Affairs and chair, Tom Getty, vice-chair, and Tamar Jordan, secretary-treasurer. Alele Museum Curator is Gerald Knight.
P16 Power plant takes shape
At the new power plant, two of the engines can be seen on their pads and the other two are in the foreground awaiting completion of their pads. As one Englishman put it, it’s starting to be readily identifiable as a power station.
Journal 4/5/1991
P23 Ronnie wins tourney
Ronnie Reimers’ 117 pound Pacific blue marlin nosed out Anton deBrum’s 116 pounder to win the Marshalls Billfish Club’s Bonus Billfish Tournament Saturday and claim the $1,440 jackpot. Fishing with Baron Bigler and Timmy Kelet, Ronnie’s team also had another marlin and a sailfish to lead a pre-Easter parade of seven billfish to the club’s digital scale.
P23 Likiep clams
Lenny Clement and Johnsay Betti were busy cleaning and separating baby giant clams at MIMRA’s new giant clam hatchery on Lado Island, Likiep Atoll. These future clam farmers are part of a six-atoll training under the supervision of Marshall Islands Aquaculture and R&D’s Marine Resources Authority.
P28 More women requesting Norplant
The new birth control Norplant is going into use faster than you can say “contraceptive,” with about one in 25 Marshallese women now using it. The Marshalls’ aggressive Norplant program is the only one of its kind in the Pacific region — although other island nations use it to a limited degree — and Ministry of Health staff say that the World Health Organization is interested to use the Marshalls as a model for the region as the program develops. There were almost 1,000 Norplant users by the end of 1990, according to the ministry.
Journal 4/8/2011
P17 Will Prof. Andrew return?
For nearly a decade, Professor Andrew Garrod has spent 10 weeks in the Marshall Islands, supervising Dartmouth students working in local schools and directing Marshall Islands High School students in one Shakespeare play after another. Why does he do it? Through an organization he helped found — Youth Bridge International — Garrod has engaged young people in theater from the Marshall Islands to war-wracked countries in eastern Europe. “In Bosnia, I use theater for reconciliation and empowerment,” Garrod said before he departed last month after a successful run of The Tempest at MIHS. “In the Marshall Islands it is about personal development and empowerment of the students.”