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	Amata Kabua - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amata Kabua (1928 – 20 December 1996) was the first President of the Marshall Islands from 1979 to 1996 (five consecutive terms).
		He was succeeded by his cousin, Imata Kabua.
		Amata Kabua began his career as a school teacher before becoming chief of Majuro and later president of the Marshall Islands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amata_Kabua (135 words)

	NewStandard: 12/26/96 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kabua, who was re-elected to a fifth term last year, had reportedly complained of chest pains and nausea.
		Kabua was born on Jabor Island of Jaluit Atoll on Nov. 17, 1928.
		Kabua became the founder and leader of the Political Movement for the Marshall Islands Separation from Micronesia in 1972.
	www.s-t.com /daily/12-96/12-26-96/b08wn069.htm (397 words)

	Politics of the Marshall Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amata Kabua was elected as the first president of the republic in 1979.
		After Amata Kabua's death in office, his first cousin, Imata Kabua, won a special election in 1997.
		The current president was elected in the general elections of November 1999 and took office in January 2000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_the_Marshall_Islands (671 words)

	Marshall Islands Country Guide - History and Government - World Travel Guide Provided By Columbus Travel Publishing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Until his death in 1996, Amata Kabua — who was elected to five consecutive terms as president from 1979 — was the dominant political figure on the atoll after independence.
		Following the death of Amata Kabua, his cousin, Imata Kabua, was elected as his successor in January 1997.
		Imata Kabua’s government was undermined by allegations of corruption and following elections held at the end of 1999 he was replaced by Kessai Note, who leads a bloc associated with the United Democratic Party, although officially no political parties are represented in the Nitijela.
	www.worldtravelguide.net /data/mnq/mnq580.asp (616 words)

	Amata District, Kyoto - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Amata District, Kyoto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Amata District, Kyoto - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Amata District, Kyoto.
		Amata (天田郡; -gun) is a district located in Kyoto, Japan.
		As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 8,965 and a density of 46.81 persons per km².
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Amata-District-Kyoto.html (121 words)

	96/12/20 Statement: Death of Marshall Islands President Amata Kabua (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		U.S. Department of State 96/12/20 Statement: Death of Marshall Islands President Amata Kabua Office of the Spokesman Press Statement by Nicholas Burns/Spokesman December 20, 1996 Death of Marshall Islands President Kabua Early this morning, Amata Kabua, President of the Marshall Islands, died at Queens Hospital in Honolulu after an extended illness.
		Amata Kabua was the first and only president of his young nation.
		Starting his career as a school teacher, President Kabua rose to become paramount chief of the Island of Majuro and head of state of the Marshall Islands.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/briefing/press_statements/9612/961220ps1.html (238 words)

	Marshall Islands. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Imata Kabua was elected to succeed him in Jan., 1997.
		Kabua was succeeded in Jan., 2000, by Kessai H. Note, who began a second term in 2004.
		An amended compact of free association, extending the defense relationship with the United States and the lease on the U.S. base on Kwajalein, was signed in 2003.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ma/MarshalIs.html (436 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Local News
		AMATA Kabua, president of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, who died last Thursday in Honolulu at age 68, was one of the most prominent leaders of Micronesia in the post-World War II years.
		Scion of a Marshallese royal family, Kabua became president of the Marshalls in 1979 when the islands were still under the United States' trusteeship and led them to independence in "free association" with the U.S. in 1986.
		Amata Kabua was a key figure in leading his people out of the devastation of World War II and the postwar nuclear tests into independence and a continuing constructive relationship with the United States.
	starbulletin.com /96/12/24/editorial/editorials.html (546 words)

	Pacific Islands
		Kabua and other members of the Commission presented their ideas and plans for future status of the Marshalls, negotiations with the U.S. and the Compact of Free Association.
		Kabua was the first president of the Marshall Islands, and named Note to his Cabinet from the start in 1979.
		Kabua later sued him and Note’s decision was upheld by the courts.
	www.pacificislands.cc /pm112001/pmdefault.php?urlarticleid=9 (2511 words)

	Freedom in the World 2001 - 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Amata Kabua's death in December 1996 left the country bereft of leadership.
		On January 14, 1997, parliament elected Imata Kabua, a long-time senator and a cousin of the late president, to finish the president's term although the constitution mandates that the speaker of the senate should serve as acting president.
		In December 1999, voters ousted Kabua's government in a public poll and gave the opposition United Democratic Party a majority in the parliament.
	www.freedomhouse.org /research/freeworld/2002/countryratings/marshall-islands.htm (716 words)

	Freedom in the World 1999 - 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In October 1998, Kabua won a narrow victory in a no-confidence motion, the first in the country’s history.
		Amata Kabua’s government had proposed to rent remote, uninhabited islands to foreign countries as nuclear waste dumps.
		A 1994 study indicated that the extent of the radioactive fallout from the U.S. atomic testing program over the islands in the 1940s and 1950s was greater than previously disclosed.
	freedomhouse.org /research/freeworld/2000/countryratings/marshall.htm (588 words)

	Forum Review - June 1997
		President Kabua met with the Secretary General of the Forum Secretariat, Hon Ieremia T Tabai, for official talks and later toured the Secretariat complex.
		In 1996 he was appointed as a Minister for the Ralik chain in the Marshall Islands.President Kabua is one of four major Iroijlaplaps (chiefs) from the Ralik chain in the Marshall Islands.
		He became chief clerk of the Council of Iroij (paramount chiefs) while in his late 20’s.Amata Kabua was elected to the first Marshall Islands Congress in 1958 and, in 1963, was elected to represent the Marshall Islands on the territory-wide legislative body - the Congress of Micronesia.
	www.sidsnet.org /pacific/forumsec/docs/FR/jun97.htm (6049 words)

	Diabetes Reversal Program
		As patients feel their physical health improving, their mental outlook changes, too, as despair is replaced with hope and sadness with joy-- a joy you can see on their faces.
		King Amata Kabua--both the traditional King and elected President of the Marshall Islands, until his death in 1996, attended a lifestyle change program in California a few years ago after having coronary bypass surgery.
		t was at the request of President Kabua and the Minister of Health that Canvasback developed the Diabetes Reversal Program, geared to the specific culture and resources of their country.
	www.canvasback.org /projects/diabetes.html (710 words)

	yLinks: Presidents/Imata_Kabua
		Nena Congratulates Imata Kabua - PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Information Service): January 24, 1997 - Acting President Jacob Nena on January 22 congratulated the new President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, His Excellency Imata Kabua, replacing the late President Amata Kabua who passed away December 20, 1996 at the Queen's Hospital in Hawaii.
		Statement by President Imata Kabua at AOSIS, Majuro - Statement by His Excellency The Honorable Imata Kabua, President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, to the opening session of the Alliance of Small Island States Workshop on the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol, Majuro, Marshall Islands, July 14, 1999.
		Visit to China - President Imata Kabua and First Lady Hiromi Kabua of the Republic of the Marshall Islands will arrive in Taipei on the afternoon of February 5, 1999, for a week-long visit at the invitation of the government of the Republic of China.
	www.yokwe.net /ylinks/Presidents/Imata_Kabua (377 words)

	Freedom in the World 2000 - 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The government also introduced an austerity program in 1995 that was designed by the Asian Development Bank to reduce the budget and the size of the civil service.
		In October 1998, Imata Kabua won a narrow victory in a no-confidence motion, the first in the country’s history.
		In December 1999, voters ousted Kabua’s government in a public poll and gave the opposition Democrats Party a majority in the parliament.
	freedomhouse.org /research/freeworld/2001/countryratings/marshall.htm (632 words)

	World Homes Network - Marshall Islands
		Amata Kabua, acting president from 1979, was re-elected 1991 as the first president of the independent state, and again 1995.
		He died Dec 1996, and in January 1997 the Nitijela (legislature) elected his cousin, Imata Kabua, as his successor in a contested ballot.
		Imata Kabua was a powerful traditional chief from Kwajalein Atoll, the site of a US missile test facility for which rental payments of $7 million per year were received, making him one of the richest people in the Marshall Islands.
	www.world-homes.net /atlas/oceania/marshall.htm (393 words)

	US State Department, Background Notes: Marshall Islands 1996
		As in some other Pacific island nations, potential conflict has been avoided by virtue of the fact that one of the highest chiefs, Amata Kabua, remains President.
		There have been a number of local and national elections since the Republic of the Marshall Islands was founded, and in general, democracy has functioned well.
		There have been some incidents of human rights concern, however, such as the government urging a high court judge to resign or putting pressure on the local newspaper because of press criticism.
	marshall.csu.edu.au /Marshalls/html/economy/StateDepTravelNote1996.html (2104 words)

	Peace Corps \| World Wise Schools \| Lesson Plans \| Teacher Guides \| Marshall Islands
		Amata Kabua, President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, was one of the most enthusiastic respondents.
		He invited ten of the Teutopolis students to the opening of his country's Washington embassy.
		This trip, and subsequent meetings with President Kabua and the embassy's staff, prompted the students to offer their newly honed video production skills to this newly independent Pacific republic.
	www.peacecorps.gov /WWS/guides/marshallislands/marshall1.html (375 words)

	ONE COUNTRY
		President Amata Kabua of the Marshall Islands delivered a major address, as did former President Amine Gemayel of Lebanon.
		The call for a reexamination of religious values in the search for political guidance was echoed by some of the secular leaders present at the Dialogue.
		President Kabua said a new global society will be successful only "through a creative interaction of scientific and religious systems of knowledge such that they can recast a fundamental reorientation in our habits and attitudes."
	www.onecountry.org /oc73/oc7301as.html (1400 words)

	Senator Henchi Balos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He first worked for Amata Kabua, later President Kabua, when the Marshall Islands Political Status Commission was formed in 1976, and he appeared at the United Nations with Amata in July 1976, the 200th anniversary of America's independence, when the MIPCS pushed for political talks with the United States.
		During his 21 years as a member of the Nitijela, the governing body of the Marshall Islands, he served under late President Amata Kabua as Minister to the President, Minister of Health, Minister of Resources and Development and Minister of Finance.
		He often served as Acting President when the late President Amata Kabua was away from the Marshall Islands.
	www.bikiniatoll.com /Balos.html (449 words)

	Republic of the Marshall Islands
		While the local atoll governments are dependent on grants from the national government, they are also empowered to raise revenues locally.
		President Amata Kabua, a traditional paramount chief in his own right, has remained in office through several elections since independence.
		However, during the 1991 election, a group called the Ralik-Ratak Democratic Party campaigned for their candidates as a direct challenge to not only President Kabua, but also as a challenge to many long time incumbents aligned with President Kabua.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~ogden/piir/pacific/marshalls.html (1134 words)

	Graham's Other writings
		There are also other countries potentially interested in buying space in such a nuclear waste dump, particularly Japan, which in the late 1970s proposed dumping nuclear waste in the north Marianas to the northwest of the Marshalls.
		Marshall Islands President Amata Kabua last December had his country's name added to a bill before the U.S. Congress as a possible site for U.S. nuclear waste disposal.
		Secretary for Foreign Affairs Jibe Kabua, son of the president, said the intention was to first conduct a feasibility study on whether the islands would be suitable and safe for nuclear waste.
	www.earnshaw.com /other_writings/content.cfm?ID=155 (740 words)

	Timeline Marshall Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The blast contaminated the neighboring island of Rongelap and nearly 100 people on the island and other downwind atolls.
		1972 Amata Kabua (1928-1996) founded and led the Political Movement for the Marshall Islands Separation from Micronesia.
		1979 Jul, Imata Kabua led a protest against US operations in the Marshall Islands.
	www.bonus.com /contour/timelines_history/http@@/timelines.ws/countries/MARSHALLS.HTML (593 words)

	Everything Marshall Islands :: http://www.yokwe.net
		At the Amata Kabua International Airport in Majuro: A passenger after
		At the Amata Kabua International Airport in Majuro: Many precautions are
		At the Amata Kabua International Airport in Majuro: Everyone who is
	www.yokwe.net /modules.php?set_albumName=album25&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php (243 words)

	Obituary Notices K
		Amata Kabua, President of Marshall Islands, at 68
		Amata Kabua, who led the Marshall Islands on its road to nationhood and served as the republic's first and only president since 1979, died last Thursday in Honolulu, where he had undergone medical treatment for a month.
		The Marshallese voted for independence in 1978 and Kabua began his first term as president of the republic the following year.
	lonestar.texas.net /~shumate/obit-k-.htm (9599 words)

	THE DEVIL AND WILLIAM WEBSTER: Sightings from The Catbird Seat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Another likely attraction (though one not mentioned in the study) was that Murphy's son, Tom, is deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in the Marshalls capital of Majuro.
		A feudal system prevails in the Marshalls, which is ruled by King Amata Kabua.
		However, fierce local resistance arose when word of the plan leaked to the public and the king decided to turn the deal down.
	www.the-catbird-seat.net /TheDevil.htm (4269 words)

	Government : Marshall Islands
		chief of state: President Imata KABUA (since 14 January 1997); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government
		head of government: President Imata KABUA (since 14 January 1997); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government
		elections: president elected by Parliament from among its own members for a four-year term; election last held 14 January 1997 (next to be held NA January 2000); note - Imata KABUA elected to succeed and complete the term of the late President Amata KABUA
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/GeogHist/geography/gov/govcountries/M/marshall.html (384 words)

	Marshall Islands Government 1990 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
		Leaders: Chief of State and Head of Government--President Amata KABUA (since 1979)
		Political parties and leaders: no formal parties; President Kabua is chief political (and traditional) leader
		Elections: President--last held NA November 1987 (next to be held November 1991); results--President Amata Kabua was reelected; Parliament--last held NA November 1987 (next to be held November 1991); results--percent of vote NA; seats--(33 total)
	www.theodora.com /wfb1990/marshall_islands/marshall_islands_government.html (253 words)

	Original Artwork: Keith Reynolds: Emlain Cargo Freighter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Measuring over 900 feet in length and boasting a beam of nearly 150 feet, the Emlain is an impressive sight at sea.
		Named after former President Amata Kabua's wife, the Emlain was used to freight cargo in the world's oceans from 1989-1991 carrying an assortment of goods in her nine holds.
		Ships such as the Emlain have been sailing the seas as important links in the world trade for decades.
	www.artworkoriginals.com /EB5SDAL5.htm (311 words)

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