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	Marshall Islands Chronology
		The Marshall Islands legislature addresses a resolution to President Johnson on the poor living conditions on Ujelang and requests that a date be set for the return of the Enewetak people to their atoll.
		The military governor of the Marshall Islands obtains the consent of a Bikini chief to relocate his people so that Bikini can be used for nuclear weapon tests.
		President Truman approves the Territory of the Pacific Islands trusteeship agreement between the United States and the UN Security Council and delegates administration of the Pacific Trust Territory to the Navy on an interim basis.
	worf.eh.doe.gov /ihp/chron (12331 words)

	Marshall Islands Chronology
		The Marshall Islands legislature addresses a resolution to President Johnson on the poor living conditions on Ujelang and requests that a date be set for the return of the Enewetak people to their atoll.
		The term "Trust Territory," was not used in 1944 for the Marshall islands and the signers were officials in 1957, not 1944.
		A physician from BNL is stationed in the Marshall Islands as a resident physician.
	worf.eh.doe.gov /ihp/chron (12331 words)

	Marshall Islands -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Marshall Islands' nearest neighbors are Wake Island to the north, Kiribati and Nauru to the south, and the Federated States of Micronesia to the west.
		Following November 1999 elections in the Marshall Islands, the opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) was expected to form a new government when the Nitijela (legislature) met in January 2000.
		"Marshall Islands." Britannica Book of the Year, 2000 from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9342484 (12331 words)

	Politics of the Marshall Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The legislative branch of the government of the Marshall Islands consists of the Nitijela (Legislature) with an advisory council of high chiefs.
		The territorial claim by the Republic of the Marshall Islands on Wake Atoll leaves a certain amount of ambiguity regarding the actual or hypothetical role of the US military, responsible under agreement for the defence of Marshallese territory, in the event of any strategic crisis or hostilities involving Wake.
		Politics of Micronesia: Guam · Kiribati · Marshall Islands · Northern Mariana Islands · Federated States of Micronesia · Nauru · Palau
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_the_Marshall_Islands (770 words)

	Marshall Islands, flag of the -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Marshall Islands' nearest neighbors are Wake Island to the north, Kiribati and Nauru to the south, and the Federated States of Micronesia to the west.
		Following November 1999 elections in the Marshall Islands, the opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) was expected to form a new government when the Nitijela (legislature) met in January 2000.
		The Marshalls are composed of two parallel chains of coral atolls—the Ratak, or Sunrise, to the east, and the Ralik, or Sunset, to the west.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9093910 (891 words)

	Elections in the Marshall Islands
		The Marshall Islands (English: Marshall Islands - Marshallese: Majol) are an independent country in the Pacific in a Compact of Free Association with the United States.
		The Marshall Islands have a population of around 56,000 on 181 km².
		Freedom House considers the Marshall Islands to be a free country.
	www.electionworld.org /marshall.htm (187 words)

	Marshall Islands -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Marshall Islands' nearest neighbors are Wake Island to the north, Kiribati and Nauru to the south, and the Federated States of Micronesia to the west.
		Following November 1999 elections in the Marshall Islands, the opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) was expected to form a new government when the Nitijela (legislature) met in January 2000.
		The Marshalls are composed of two parallel chains of coral atolls—the Ratak, or Sunrise, to the east, and the Ralik, or Sunset, to the west.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9117363?&query=marshall (788 words)

	Marshall Islands Chronology
		The Marshall Islands legislature addresses a resolution to President Johnson on the poor living conditions on Ujelang and requests that a date be set for the return of the Enewetak people to their atoll.
		The term "Trust Territory," was not used in 1944 for the Marshall islands and the signers were officials in 1957, not 1944.
		The representative is responsible for the radiological safety of the local population in the populated islands near the PPG and members of the task force.
	worf.eh.doe.gov /ihp/chron (12331 words)

	Marshall Islands Chronology
		The Marshall Islands legislature addresses a resolution to President Johnson on the poor living conditions on Ujelang and requests that a date be set for the return of the Enewetak people to their atoll.
		The military governor of the Marshall Islands obtains the consent of a Bikini chief to relocate his people so that Bikini can be used for nuclear weapon tests.
		The representative is responsible for the radiological safety of the local population in the populated islands near the PPG and members of the task force.
	worf.eh.doe.gov /ihp/chron (12331 words)

	Country Profile of the Republic of the Marshall Islands
		The Embassy of the Republic of Marshall Islands in Washington, DC provides information on the individual atolls and islands; history of the Marshall Islands; geography, climate, natural resources; people, language, culture, religion, food; traditional arts and crafts; holidays and traditions.
		Economic and Social Indicators of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (1995-2002).
		The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) is a nation of more than 50,000 living on 29 coral atolls and 5 small low-lying islands in the central Pacific, mid-way between Hawaii and Australia.
	www.un.int /marshall-islands/countryprofile.html (676 words)

	Freedom in the World 2004
		The major event in the Marshall Islands in 2003 was the renewal of the Compact of Free Association agreement with the United States to replace the one that expired on September 30.
		Beginning in 1997, the Marshall Islands was under U.S. trusteeship administration for nearly four decades.
		In November parliamentary and presidential elections, President Kessai Note's United Democratic Party won a majority of seats in the legislature and Note secured a second term in office.
	www.freedomhouse.org /research/freeworld/2004/countryratings/marshall-islands.htm (941 words)

	Marshall Islands Chronology
		The Marshall Islands legislature addresses a resolution to President Johnson on the poor living conditions on Ujelang and requests that a date be set for the return of the Enewetak people to their atoll.
		The Marshall Islands, administered by Japan since the end of World War I, fall to the United States military forces during the Pacific war.
		Participants in a conference on surveys and studies of the Marshall Islands agree to the need for a series of long-term medical and environmental surveys for an indefinite time of the Marshall Islands and their inhabitants affected by the nuclear weapon testing.
	worf.eh.doe.gov /ihp/chron (12331 words)

	Politics of the Marshall Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		former: Marshall Islands District (Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands)
		mailing address: P. Box 1379, Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands 96960-1379
		Legal system: based on adapted Trust Territory laws, acts of the legislature, municipal, common, and customary laws
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marshall_Islands/Government (12331 words)

	Political Parties
		Democratic Party (controls the legislature) [speaker, Vicente (Ben) PANGELINAN]; Republican Party (party of Governor CAMACHO) [leader NA]
		note: a number of minor parties joined forces in 1999 to form the BAM but did not capture any parliamentary seats; the BAM parties are: the United Action Party [Ephraim Lepetu SETSHWAELO], the Independence Freedom Party or IFP [Motsamai MPHO], and the Botswana Progressive Union [D. Brazil
		Anguilla United Movement or AUM [Hubert HUGHES]; The United Front or UF [Osbourne FLEMING, Victor BANKS], a coalition of the Anguilla Democratic Party or ADP and the Anguilla National Alliance or ANA; Anguilla Patriotic Movement or APM [Quincy GUMBS]; Movement for Grassroots Democracy or MFGD [Joyce KENTISH, John BENJAMIN]
	siakhenn.tripod.com /parties.html (12331 words)

	University of the Virgin Islands View Book
		The University of the Virgin Islands was chartered as the College of the Virgin Islands on March 16, 1962 by the Fourth Legislature of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
		In its brief but distinguished history, the University of the Virgin Islands has produced two Rhodes Scholars, Thurgood Marshall scholars and a Goldwater scholar who received a perfect score on the Graduate Record Examinations.
		In its brief but distinguished history, the University of the Virgin Islands has already produced many graduates who have risen -- and are rising -- to prominence in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the British Virgin Islands, the Eastern Caribbean, the U.S. mainland and beyond.
	www.uvi.edu /pub-relations/viewbook3.htm (450 words)

	Marshall Islands, flag of the -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Marshall Islands' nearest neighbors are Wake Island to the north, Kiribati and Nauru to the south, and the Federated States of Micronesia to the west.
		Following World War II, the United States administered as a trust territory the area that later became the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
		Following November 1999 elections in the Marshall Islands, the opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) was expected to form a new government when the Nitijela (legislature) met in January 2000.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9093910 (848 words)

	MARSHALLS PRESIDENT NOTE SLAMS U.S. GOVERNMENT - August 20, 2002
		MAJURO, Marshall islands (August 19, 2002 — Marianas Variety)---Marshall Islands President Kessai Note took the gloves off in a speech to the opening of the Nitijela, the legislature, criticizing American government officials who are attempting to "rewrite history" to avoid commitments to this central Pacific nation.
		Note said the Marshall Islands believe free association has been successful and that he does not see the next period of U.S. funding as an exit phase for the United States.
		Note observed that "we will not turn our backs on the U.S. even under the most stressful and trying circumstances." In a reference to the American nuclear testing legacy in the country, Note said the Marshall Islands have "never allowed the frustration of the past to prevent us from being America’s truest friend."
	166.122.164.43 /archive/2002/August/08-20-01.htm (660 words)

	Hawaii Island Journal - Last Issue Stories
		In 2001, President Note was almost removed from office, in part for his close ties to Moon, after the government gave the Unification Church approval to operate in the Marshall Islands over the objections of many in the national legislature.
		According to an article in Pacific Magazine, a Honolulu-based business journal that covers all the Pacific islands, the genesis of the High School of the Pacific was a fishing trip Moon took with the president of the Marshall Islands, Kessai Note, four years ago.
		Now, because of a lack of space, the plan is to start about 30 students in the ninth grade this year and continue to look for space for a larger campus.
	www.hawaiiislandjournal.com /stories2/08a04c.html (1026 words)

	History of Fiji - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		History of Micronesia: Guam · Kiribati · Marshall Islands · Northern Mariana Islands · Federated States of Micronesia · Nauru · Palau
		The United Kingdom refuses to annex Fiji, claiming to have ascertained from Cakobau's fellow-chiefs that he was not universally accepted as King of Fiji and that he did not have the authority to cede the islands.
		Establishment of the Kingdom of Fiji as a constitutional monarchy, with Cakobau as King but with real power in the hands of a Cabinet and Legislature dominated by settlers from Australia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Fiji (1104 words)

	Former Senator J. Bennett Johnston’s Government Relations Firm Is Hired by The Kwajalein Negotiation Commission to Represent the Interests of Kwajalein Landowners
		In addition to energy policy, his position on this committee provided Senator Johnston with an oversight role on the operations of federal lands and the territories of the United States, including eh 1983 Compact of Free Association between the United States and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
		The Government of the United States and the national government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands are currently in negotiations concerning the Compact of Free Association between the two countries.
		Senator Johnston was the principal sponsor of natural gas deregulation as well as the Royalty Relief Act.
	www.yokwe.net /preleases/knc.html (1104 words)

	MARSHALLS PRES. NOTE MEETS WITH COLIN POWELL - May 29, 2003
		MAJURO, Marshall Islands (Yokwe Online, May 29) - Marshall Islands President Kessai Note met this morning with the U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell at the State Department in Washington.
		President Note and the RMI Compact Negotiation Team are in Washington to meet with Administration officials and Congressional leaders concerning the recently signed amended Compact of Free Association agreements.
		Both the RMI legislature and U.S. Congress must approve the amendments before Compact II takes effect.
	166.122.164.43 /archive/2003/may/05-29-10.htm (143 words)

	Elections in Nauru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elections in Micronesia: Guam · Kiribati · Marshall Islands · Northern Mariana Islands · Federated States of Micronesia · Nauru · Palau
		Nauru elects on national level a head of state- the president- and a legislature.
		Elections in Melanesia: Fiji · New Caledonia · Papua New Guinea · Solomon Islands · Vanuatu
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Nauru (175 words)

	Kiribati (11/03)
		The Kiribati Government has responded by including several special provisions in the Constitution, such as the designation of a Banaban seat in the legislature and the return of land previously acquired by the government for phosphate mining.
		It is not possible to travel from the Line Islands to the Gilbert Islands by air without traveling via Hawaii and either Fiji or the Marshall Islands.
		Kiribati has received high marks for its prudent management of the Reserve Fund, which is vital for the long-term welfare of the country.
	www.state.gov /outofdate/bgn/k/35118.htm (2036 words)

	Association of Pacific Island Legislatures
		Encouraging and inviting the newly reorganized National Legislature, the "Nitijela" of the Republic of the Marshall Islands to rejoin the Association of Pacific Island LEgislatures as a permanent and an active member.
		Expressing sincere appreciation to the Palau National Congress for the hosting of the 21st General Assembly of the Association of Pacific Island Legislatures.
		Respectfully requesting the 108th United States Congress to provide for a nonvoting Delegate in the House of Representatives to represent the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI).
	www.guam.net /pub/apil/current.htm (5288 words)

	World Homes Network - Marshall Islands
		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.
		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.
	www.world-homes.net /atlas/oceania/marshall.htm (393 words)

	Diabetes Reversal Program
		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.
		He even had a track built near the legislature building, and on any given morning he could be seen out jogging with members of his cabinet.
		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)

	Marshall Islands -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Following November 1999 elections in the Marshall Islands, the opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) was expected to form a new government when the Nitijela (legislature) met in January 2000.
		Having reestablished his position in January 2001 by defeating a motion of no-confidence brought by the supporters of former president Imata Kabua, Marshall Islands Pres.
		The UDP had campaigned on an anticorruption platform, whereas the government stood on its record and promised lower taxes.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9342484 (710 words)

	Everything Marshall Islands
		In the 1999 national election, Iroij Zedkaia survived the upset of his party which had governed under the leadership of RMI Presidents Amata Kabua and Imata Kabua, and retained his seat in the Nitijela.
		When the legislature convened in early January 2000, Senator Zedkaia was unanimously elected Vice-Speaker, after losing the bid for Speaker to UDP Chairman Litokwa Tomeing.
		He finished third in the bid for one of Majuro's five Nitijela seats, although the other four seats went to United Democratic Party candidates.
	www.yokwe.net /print.php?sid=514 (710 words)

	Nelson Doi - Wikipedia
		After his service with Ariyoshi, Doi was appointed to then-territorial High Court of the Marshall Islands.
		Upon leaving the Hawaii State Legislature, Doi was appointed to the Hawaii State Judiciary as a circuit court judge where he served for five years.
		Nelson Doi, formally Nelson K. Doi (born January 1, 1922), was Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii from 1974 to 1978 in the administration of Governor of Hawaii George Ariyoshi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nelson_Doi (710 words)

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