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	Bernard Dowiyogo
		Bernard Dowiyogo (February 14, 1946 - March 9, 2003) was a politician from Nauru.
		Over the next 25 years, Dowiyogo served as President several times, for periods as long as six years and as short as 15 days.
		He died at George Washington University Hospital[?] in Washington, D.C. heart complications brought on by his struggle with diabetes, a common ailment on Nauru.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/be/Bernard_Dowiyogo.html (107 words)

	Bernard Dowiyogo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bernard Annen Auwen Dowiyogo (February 14, 1946 - March 9, 2003) was a politician from Nauru.
		Over the next 25 years, Dowiyogo served as President several times, for periods as long as six years (1989-1995) and as short as 15 days.
		During the 1980s, he sharply criticized France and the United States for atomic weapons testing in the region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernard_Dowiyogo (137 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In Dec. 1989 Bernard Dowiyogo was elected President and at the South Pacific Forum in 1990 Pres.
		President Bernard Dowiyogo was forced from office on March 29 in a political crisis over the alleged involvement of...
		Bernard Dowiyogo, elected in 2003 as president for the seventh time (nonsequentially), died in March 2003...
	bernard_dowiyogo.iqexpand.com (416 words)

	Funeral Service of Nauru President Bernard Dowiyogo
		President Dowiyogo truly died in the line of duty.
		President Dowiyogo took careful note of the facts presented and the concerns expressed by U.S. experts and issued an Executive Order instructing his government to begin shutting down the offshore banking sector.
		Our thoughts and prayers are with Madam Dowiyogo and her family, as well as the people of Nauru.
	www.state.gov /t/pm/rls/rm/18734.htm (591 words)

	Oceania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Nauru President Bernard Dowiyogo has died in a Washington hospital, a Melbourne-based spokeswoman for the Pacific island nation said Monday.
		Dowiyogo served as president in 1989-1995, for 15 days in 1996, and in 1998-1999 and 2000-2001 before again taking office in January.
		Dowiyogo is survived by a wife and four children.
	www.oceania.stosunki.pl /new/fokus/Dowiyogo-has-died.htm (224 words)

	Nauru -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bernard Dowiyogo in Nauru's Parliament on March 29, 2001.
		Dowiyogo lost his job over international criticism of Nauru's financial system and in particular over allegations of money laundering for the Russian mafia.
		Bernard Dowiyogo, in his fifth term as president of the tiny Pacific nation, lost office after a no-confidence vote on April 27.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9383685 (688 words)

	Speaker casts vote for Dowiyogo to be Nauru president (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bernard Dowiyogo appears to hold the troubled Nauru presidency again - for the moment, the AFP news agency reported today.
		Speaker Vassal Gadoengin's vote is believed to have given Mr Dowiyogo the leadership in a contest with another former president, Kinza Clodumar, AFP said.
		Mr Dowiyogo and another former president, Kinza Clodumar, then won eight votes each in a contest for the presidency, AFP said.
	www.hellopacific.com /news/general/news/2003/01/19/19d.htm (453 words)

	Independent, The (London): Obituary: Bernard Dowiyogo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Eccentric DeRoburt decisions came to haunt Dowiyogo's presidencies: the purchase of underemployed ships and the creation of a loss-leader airline, Air Nauru, are examples.
		During the 1970s and 1980s, Dowiyogo earned the disapproval of France for his sharp criticism of and opposition to French nuclear tests in Tahiti.
		Bernard Dowiyogo, politician: born Nauru 14 February 1946; President of Nauru 1976-78, 1989-1995, 1996-99, 2000-01, 2003; married (four children); died Washington, DC 9 March 2003.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20030313/ai_n12680227 (635 words)

	Third time lucky: Nauru swaps leaders again - smh.com.au
		Dowiyogo may be forced to call an early election because of a deadlock in parliament, observers said.
		Dowiyogo was re-elected the next day after Harris abandoned efforts to hold on to office.
		Dowiyogo had hoped to pass a budget bill yesterday, but parliament was deadlocked.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/01/21/1042911374782.html (381 words)

	luci/1.2: Politics of Nauru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A series of no-confidence votes, resignations and elections between [1999] and [2003] saw [RenÃ© Harris] and [Bernard Dowiyogo] as President for numerous short periods during a period of political instability.
		[Bernard Dowiyogo] (2nd admin) [12 December] [1989] to [22 November] [1995]
		[Bernard Dowiyogo] (7th admin; died in office) [18 January] [2003] to [10 March] [2003]
	www.rctednet.net /textOnly/luci.cgi/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Nauru (549 words)

	President's death adds to Nauru woes - theage.com.au
		Since Mr Dowiyogo won the case, the evenly divided Parliament has been unable to sit as opposing factions have prevented the election of a speaker by not turning up.
		Mr Dowiyogo had been a diabetic for 30 years and had bypass surgery in Melbourne in 2001.
		A month ago Mr Dowiyogo, serving his fifth term as president, said his nation was "in a critical situation" and needed more Australian aid.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/03/10/1047144917990.html (456 words)

	End Time in the Sunshine (Features) Jack Hitt
		Bernard Dowiyogo had served in this office four times in the previous decade (and would serve a few more times in the new millennium).
		Dowiyogo had tried to steer the country toward some sort of moral economic reform, hoping the West would reward him for his virtue.
		Dowiyogo greeted me with the solemnity of a man whose acquaintance with smiling seemed as remote as Brian's.
	www.utne.com /issues/2006_138/features/12315-1.html (3128 words)

	Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Pacific - Nauru prepares for state funeral (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Large crowds have turned out in Nauru to pay their respects to the late President, Bernard Dowiyogo, whose body was flown from the United States where he died last week.
		Bernard Dowiyogo died of heart failure just over a week ago after collapsing while in the US capital, Washington.
		Mr Dowiyogo first became president in 1976 at the age of 30 and led his country a total of six times.
	www.abc.net.au /asiapacific/news/GoAsiaPacificBNP_808809.htm (170 words)

	Herald Sun Footy Story Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A spokeswoman for George Washington University Hospital confirmed Mr Dowiyogo underwent surgery on Tuesday and remained today in a critical condition.
		"The 57-year-old president of the Republic of Nauru, Bernard Dowiyogo, is listed in critical condition at the George Washington University Hospital," the hospital said.
		Mr Dowiyogo is serving as president of the island for the sixth time, after first being elected in 1976.
	www.heraldsun.news.com.au /footy/printpage/0,8036,6094836^661,00.html (168 words)

	CNN.com - Nauru president ousted - March 30, 2001
		The parliament ended Dowiyogo's sixth term in a vote of no confidence on Friday after concerns were raised about transactions by foreign banks.
		Dowiyogo had been criticized for sitting on a request from Russian authorities for details on bank transactions conducted in the phosphate-rich country, Nauru MP Tony Audoa told Australia's The Age newspaper.
		Dowiyogo suffered a blow last month when Australia's air safety authority grounded Air Nauru for nine days because its air safety certificates had expired.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/03/30/nauru.ousted (263 words)

	Challenge to Nauru power grab - theage.com.au
		The Chief Justice of Nauru has granted an order preventing the country's former leader, Bernard Dowiyogo, from taking over the presidency after a no-confidence motion was passed this week against President Rene Harris.
		Mr Dowiyogo and opposition parliamentarians passed the motion in Nauru's parliament on Wednesday, but a reluctant Mr Harris appears to have refused to relinquish the leadership.
		Mr Dowiyogo, a former president of Nauru, was himself voted out by the nation's 18-member parliament and replaced by Mr Harris in March, 2001, after six terms in power.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/01/10/1041990097933.html (429 words)

	Republic of Nauru
		DeRoburt was the first and longest running president of Nauru, having served in this capacity from independence until 1989, except for a fourteen-month period between December 1976 and May 1978 when he was replaced by Bernard Dowiyogo (Lagumont Harris served for three weeks in 1978).
		Aroi held the presidency only until the general elections in December 1989 when Bernard Dowiyogo was again elected president.
		In anticipation of this eventuality, the government of President Dowiyogo have taken steps to adjust present methods of economic, financial, and social management to prepare for the post-phosphate economy.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~ogden/piir/pacific/nauru.html (1018 words)

	Ambassador Siv: Statement on the Passing of Nauru President Bernard Dowiyogo, April 15, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He was admired for his calm determination to speak his mind in the service of his countrymen.
		But President Dowiyogo was no ordinary politician - he was a statesman.
		In those talks, President Dowiyogo made a bold decision to counter money laundering and the purchase of passports - - limiting the vulnerability of his nation to international criminals.
	www.un.int /usa/03ss0415.htm (349 words)

	netcyclo: Nauru: Government
		Aroi resigned four months later, on grounds of ill health, and was replaced by Bernard Dowiyogo (1946-), who had first been president in 1976.
		after the former President, Bernard Dowiyogo (who was in Australia at the time for medical treatment) was deposed in his absence by a vote of no-confidence in the House.
		Dowiyogo, who was in his sixth term as President, had been elected by Parliament on 19 April 2000, following general elections in Nauru on 8 April 2000.
	www.netcyclo.com /places/polit/nations/nauru/nr-gov.htm (902 words)

	ipedia.com: Nauru Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Between 1999 and 2003, a series of no-confidence votes and elections meant Rene Harris and Bernard Dowiyogo led the country for alternating periods.
		Dowiyogo died in office on March 10, 2003 in Washington DC after heart surgery.
		Ludwig Scotty was elected President on May 29, 2003, and it was thought possible at the time that the years of political uncertainty might come to an end.
	www.ipedia.com /nauru.html (857 words)

	Nauru
		Dowiyogo eventually took over but he died in Washington in March, sparking the latest crisis.
		In one of its more savage descriptions of a member state, the Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) Monday said Nauru was “in a long-term decline, resulting from prolonged economic and financial mismanagement and the progressive exhaustion of its phosphate reserves”.
		AUCKLAND, Nov 22 (AFP) - A veteran politician on the Central Pacific island of Nauru, Lagumot Harris, was Wednesday elected president in a surprise result that saw the incumbent since 1989, Bernard Dowiyogo, ejected from office by nine votes to eight.
	203.97.34.63 /nauru.htm (1919 words)

	PM - Nauru presidency legal question heads to courts
		After a vote of no confidence in president Rene Harris and his Government, Bernard Dowiyogo was sworn into office this afternoon.
		This afternoon, veteran politician Bernard Dowiyogo was sworn in as Nauru's new President by the Government Chief Secretary.
		BEN KNIGHT: That's at odds with the official line from the Department of Foreign Affairs, which has congratulated Bernard Dowiyogo on the vote and recognised him as the new President of Nauru.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/stories/s760455.htm (725 words)

	Department of State Washington File: Text: U.S. Sends Condolences on Death of President of Nauru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The United States expresses its deepest condolences to the people of Nauru and to the family of Bernard Dowiyogo on the passing of the President of Nauru, the State Department said in a March 10 press release.
		The United States expresses its deepest condolences to the people of Nauru and to the family of Bernard Dowiyogo on the passing of the President of Nauru.
		President Dowiyogo passed away Sunday, March 9, at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he was being treated for a heart ailment.
	usembassy-australia.state.gov /hyper/2003/0310/epf112.htm (164 words)

	AP Online: Obituaries in the News@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) _ Nauru's President Bernard Dowiyogo, known as a pragmatic leader of the environmentally devastated South Pacific island, died Sunday.
		Dowiyogo died at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., of complications from an 11-hour heart operation five days earlier.
		During the 1980s, Dowiyogo earned a reputation as a radical in South Pacific politics for his sharp criticism...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:72451071&refid=ip_almanac_hf (170 words)

	Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Pacific - Nauru's late president laid to rest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A large contingent of foreign dignitaries has attended the state funeral of the late President of Nauru, Bernard Dowiyogo.
		The eulogy at the funeral was delivered by Nauru's former President Kinza Clodumar, who paid tribute to Mr Dowiyogo's contribution as a Pacific statesman.
		He said: "[Bernard Dowiyogo] took a strong stand in the fight attacking France over a period of time on that country's nuclear program in French Polynesia, which culminated in a unilateral decision he took to break-off diplomatic relations with France.
	www.goasiapacific.com /news/GoAsiaPacificBNP_809927.htm (131 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Asia-Pacific \| President of Nauru dies
		The President of the tiny Pacific island of Nauru, Bernard Dowiyogo, has died of a heart attack at the age of 57.
		Mr Dowiyogo, who had been the president of Nauru on six separate occasions since 1976, was in hospital in the United States and had just undergone emergency heart surgery.
		Government employees were not being paid - despite revenue from housing refugees on behalf of Australia - and the country was trapped in political deadlock while President Dowiyogo was in the US for medical treatment.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2835391.stm (136 words)

	Index Di-Do
		Reform of the tax system, removal of subsidies and controls, conversion of many government departments into corporations in the name of efficiency, removal of import barriers, and introduction of other open market concepts - these were some of the changes introduced by Douglas.
		Over the next 27 years, Dowiyogo navigated the unpredictable Nauruan political landscape - serving as president for as long as six years and as little as 8 days.
		The portfolios he held during his parliamentary career include minister for foreign affairs, minister for island development and industry, minister for justice, minister for education, and minister for finance and economic reform.
	www.rulers.org /indexd3.html (13937 words)

	Nauru -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rene Harris was reelected president by Parliament on April 13, but he resigned on April 20 after failing to form a government.
		He was replaced on that same day by Bernard Dowiyogo.
		Shortly after taking office, Dowiyogo vowed to combat money laundering by taking steps to reform and improve Nauru's offshore banking regime.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9344156?tocId=9344156 (696 words)

	The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Dowiyogo, Bernard (1946- )@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1973 he established himself as leader of a loose opposition group, the Nauru Party, in an assembly filled with independents and in December ousted and replaced Hammer De Roburt, who had been president since 1968.
		Opposition, orchestrated by De Roburt's supporters, forced Dowiyogo's resignation in April 1978 and De Roburt was re-installed.
		Dowiyogo then served as justice minister under De Roburt from 1983, before replacing him as president in December...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:100091997 (169 words)

	AllRefer.com - Nauru (Pacific Islands Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		The country also receives aid from Australia in exchange for its acceptance (2001) of Afghan, Iraqi, and other Asian refugees that Australia refused to admit.
		Bernard Dowiyogo, who became president for a seventh time in Jan., 2003, died in Mar., 2003.
		Ludwig Scotty was elected president in May but was ousted in a no-confidence vote in August; RenE Harris, a former president, replaced Scotty.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/Nauru.html (447 words)

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