By Journal on April 26, 2024
Al Giddings, Bikini Atoll, Discovery Channel
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Journal 4/24/1987 P18 Youth OptionsOver a dozen young boys are taking a brush up course in elementary English and math at the Private Industry Council/Marshalls Community Action Agency Youth Options Center in Uliga. After school in the morning, the boys are learning the fine art of net mending from instructor Ring Nook. This is just […]
By Journal on November 2, 2023
Bikini, Bikini Atoll, Bikini money, Bikini suit, Jonathan Weisgall, Supreme Court
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Journal 11/7/1986P1 RepMar invests $150m fundThe $150 million nuclear claims fund was turned over to RepMar by the US government last week and deposited into an account with the Irving Trust Company over the weekend.P3 Palau voting againPalauans will vote by December 15 on a pact that would allow the United States to operate nuclear-propelled […]
By Journal on May 27, 2022
2008, Air Marshall Islands, Back in the Day, Bikini Atoll, Conde Nast Traveler Magazine, Jack Niedenthal, nuclear test, World War two ship sunk
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Journal 5/31/1985 P1 Rongelapese clash with US ambassador The verbal sparring between US officials and Rongelap Atoll leaders escalated this week when the US ambassador to the United Nations charged that the nearly completed evacuation of Rongelap was instigated by outsiders who were misleading the islanders about radiation contamination on the atoll. Ambassador Harvey Feldman […]
By Journal on February 25, 2022
Bikini Atoll, Bravo, David Kabua, Kenneth Ked, Maynard Alfred, National Nuclear Commission, Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day, Oronia Kinono, Roxanne Cabral
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Next Tuesday, Delap Park will be the focus of Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day events.The annual March 1 national holiday marks the day 68 years ago that the US military tested American’s largest hydrogen bomb — Bravo — at Bikini Atoll, irradiating thousands of Marshallese living downwind of the test site. Next week’s event will kick […]
By Journal on October 22, 2021
Air Marshall Islands, Back in the Day, Bikini, Bikini Atoll, Bikini Atoll Diving, Dash-8, Divers, Diving in Bikini
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Journal 10/19/1984 P1 Eona Simon is graduated from FBI Academy In a September 14 rebased, William H. Webster, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced the law enforcement officers who graduated from the 138th session of the FBI National Academy. They were honored in ceremonies at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Among several […]
By Journal on March 12, 2021
Bikini Atoll, Dr. John Laman, Jaluit High School
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Journal 3/9/1984 P1 Dr. John turns 60 A celebration of Dr. John Iaman’s 60th birthday was the key party here in Majuro this past weekend — fitting tribute to the man who has spent his life doctoring and caring for countless ills and problems of the people who have come to love and respect him. […]
By Journal on June 29, 2018
Bikini Atoll, Dennis Haysbert, Edward Maddison, Pearl Harbor
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Journal 6/26/1981 P1 Women called to more active role The Radrik Dron women members of Majuro’s United Church of Christ today had a chance to hear advice to take a more active role in their country’s decision making and not just let men make the decisions. The person telling them that was not a man, […]
By Journal on August 25, 2017
AEC, Atomic Energy Commission, Bikini, Bikini Atoll
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Journal 8/29/1975 P1 Bad news for Bikini Islanders returning to Bikini Atoll may be asked to comply with additional restrictions on diet and living areas as a result of a recent radiological follow up survey conducted by the Energy Research and Development Administration (formerly Atomic Energy Commission) in June. P7 Jabwor wakens former shadow of […]
By Journal on March 24, 2017
Air Marshall Islands, Bikini, Bikini Atoll, Bikinians, David Tejada
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Journal 3/28/1975 P2 Airport land The Trust Territory Government paid private landowners $160 per acre a year for airport land. Length: 25 years, renewable, with price subject to renegotiation. P7 Murder charge in Majuro In what has been dubbed the first murder trial in the Marshals, Alex (Namar) Milne has been charged with first degree […]
By Journal on March 2, 2017
Bikini Atoll, Giff Johnson, Hilda Heine, Jack Ading, Karen Stewart, Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day, Tony deBrum
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GIFF JOHNSON “Grief, terror and righteous anger” has not faded for Marshall Islanders despite the passage of 71 years since the first nuclear weapons test at Bikini Atoll, President Hilda Heine told the Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day ceremony Wednesday in Majuro. The event, that included a parade, ringing of a bell 71 times to mark […]