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	Penaia Ganilau - Biocrawler
		Ratu Sir Penaia Kanatabatu Ganilau (28 July 1918-15 December 1993) was the first President of Fiji, serving from 8 December 1987 till his death.
		Ganilau was educated at Northern Provincial School, Queen Victoria Memorial School and Wadham College, Oxford University, whence he graduated from the Devonshire Course for administration officers in 1946.
		Ganilau was married three times, and had two daughters and six sons, of whom one, Ratu Epeli Ganilau, has followed in his footsteps by pursuing a political career of his own.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Ratu_Sir_Penaia_Ganilau (702 words)

	Ratu Epeli Ganilau Biography
		Ganilau was elected Chairman of the Bose Levu Vakaturanga in 2001, after the previous Chairman, Sitiveni Rabuka stepped down amid accusations that he may have been involved in the coup d'état that deposed Fiji's elected government in May 2000.
		Ganilau is the son of the late Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, the first President of the Republic of Fiji (1987-1992).
		He is married to, and has two sons and two daughters with, Adi Ateca Mara, the eldest daughter of Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, the founding father of modern Fiji.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Ganilau_Ratu_Epeli.html (179 words)

	Wansolwara Online: News (USP)
		Ratu Mara was the paramount chief of Lau, and his people turned out in numbers to express their sorrow at his passing.
		As Ratu Mara’s body was carried from his house, where it had been lying in state to the church, the military band played the national anthem.
		Ratu Mara, he said, was the last of the four great chiefs groomed to lead their people.
	www.sidsnet.org /pacific/usp/journ/docs/news/wansolnews/2004/May/wansol0405041.html (584 words)

	Sir Richard Steele - Encyclopedia.com
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		The knight's crusade: playing the wizard Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings may make Sir Ian McKellen the world's best-known gay man. And he's armed and ready to carry the fight for equality along with him.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Steele-S.html (1503 words)

	Ratu
		Ratu is a title inherited by Fijians of chiefly rank.
		The distinction between Ratus and commoners is slowly narrowing, as commoners are becoming better educated and have begun to work their way into the power structure.
		Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna; Soldier, scholar, and statesman.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/r/ra/ratu.html (549 words)

	Strategic Marriages
		Ratu Epeli and Ratu Tauakitau are the sons of the late Ratu Edward Cakobau, who was the brother of Ratu Sir George Cakobau.
		Ratu Sir Penaia's son is Brigadier General (retired) Ratu Epeli Ganilau, a former commander of the Fijian Military Forces, and a member of the military council that ruled Fiji in the aftermath of the attempted coup.
		Ratu Epeli Ganilau is married to another daughter of Ratu Sir Kamisese and Adi Lala Mara.
	maorinews.com /karere/fiji/stratmarr.htm (1504 words)

	Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ratu Sir Kamisese was the last of a group of powerful, mostly hereditary Pacific Island chiefs who led their countries to independence from British, Australian, New Zealand and American colonial rule from the mid-1960's.
		Ratu Sir Kamisese is survived by his wife, Ro Lala Mara, a paramount chief who outranked him in the Fijian aristocratic hierarchy, three daughters and two sons.
		Ratu Mara's character was a mixture of the forthright and the diplomatic, the inflexible and the dexterous, the imperious and the tolerant.
	www.vanuatu.usp.ac.fj /library/Online/Texts/Mara/Mara.htm (7678 words)

	ratu - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Soon after the second coup, Rabuka handed control to Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, who had been governor-general and commander-in-chief of Fiji's armed...
		Ratu is a title used by Fijians of chiefly rank.
		The Gathic term ratu is derived from eret, meaning “to do right, to act properly.” It means the righteous leader who guides people with...
	encarta.msn.com /ratu.html (120 words)

	Historical Timeline - Fiji Government Online
		Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi became the father of Ratu Sir Joseva Lalabalavu Vanaaliali Sukuna, the father of modern Fiji.
		The General Election was won by the Coalition NFP-FLP, and resulted in the relegation of former PM, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara and Alliance MP to the Opposition, while Dr Timoci Bavadra was sworn in as Prime Minister.
		Tuesday morning and Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara is sworn in as President and Commander in Chief.
	www.fiji.gov.fj /publish/historical_timeline.shtml (2616 words)

	Penaia Ganilau at AllExperts
		Ratu Sir Penaia Kanatabatu Ganilau''' GCMG KBE KCVO DSO (28 July 1918-15 December 1993) was the first President of Fiji, serving from 8 December 1987 till his death.
		Ganilau was educated at Northern Provincial School, Queen Victoria Memorial School and Wadham College, Oxford University, whence he graduated from the Devonshire Course for administration officers in 1946.
		In 1963, in the first elections in which ethnic Fijians voted directly, Ganilau was elected to the Legislative Council, the precursor to the modern Fijian Parliament.
	en.allexperts.com /e/p/pe/penaia_ganilau.htm (814 words)

	Fiji - MSN Encarta
		The first prime minister of independent Fiji was Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, hereditary chief of Lau, an outlying island group, and founder of the majority Alliance Party.
		In December, Rabuka named Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, a former governor-general, as the president of a civilian government for the new Republic of Fiji.
		When Ganilau died in December 1993, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara was elected president by the Great Council of Chiefs, which represents the traditional tribal leaders of Fiji.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563473_4/Fiji.html (963 words)

	Wansolwara Online: News (USP)
		Ratu Mara was the paramount chief of Lau, and his people turned out in numbers to express their sorrow at his passing.
		As Ratu Mara’s body was carried from his house, where it had been lying in state to the church, the military band played the national anthem.
		Ratu Mara, he said, was the last of the four great chiefs groomed to lead their people.
	www.usp.ac.fj /journ/docs/news/wansolnews/2004/May/wansol0405041.html (584 words)

	Geschichtliches
		In April 1987, the Alliance Party of Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, which had governed Fiji since independence, lost a general election and was replaced by an NFP-Labour Coalition government.
		Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara was brought back as Prime Minister and formed a mostly civilian Cabinet containing four military officers, including Rabuka.
		Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara wurde Premierminister und formte ein Kabinett, welches mehrheitlich Zivilisten aber auch vier Armeeoffiziere umfasste.
	www.fijihosting.com /bulaman/fidschi/geschichtliches.htm (1414 words)

	GCC replaces Rabuka (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ratu Epeli is a former military commander who resigned from the military to contest the 1999 General Election for the Christian Democratic Party (VLV).
		He is the son of Cakaudrove High Chief and former President Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, and is the son-in-law of Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.
		Ratu Epeli was invited to the GCC meeting as a nominee of the Qarase regime Minister for Fijian Affairs.
	www.fijihosting.com /pcgov/hot_press/no565.htm (178 words)

	Parliament of Fiji
		Sir, he was among the original architects of the alliance of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Island states, the ACP group which came into being to obtain fairness from their former European colonial masters.
		President, Sir, it is so vivid in my mind, the faces of the elected members of LegCo who had won their seats in the 1966 General Elections and who all went to London for the London Constitutional Conference at Marlborough House in May or June 1970, at the total expense of the British Government.
		Sir, we chiefs have to understand one thing; you have to serve first before you are being served, and the honourable Senator Ratu Rawaya showed this in his speech.
	www.parliament.gov.fj /parliament/hansard/viewhansard.aspx?hansardID=192&viewtype=full (6410 words)

	Encyklopedia :: Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Czołowym politykiem Fidżi został także jego syn, Ratu Epeli Ganilau (żonaty z córką Kamisese Mary).
		Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, 75, the president of Fiji since 1987the hospital Nov. 27.
		Sir Roger Newdigate in the Library at Arbury Arthur Devis Sir Roger Newdigate in the Library at Arbury, Arthur Devis (1712-1787)
	www.encyklopedia.cc /topic/Ratu_Sir_Penaia_Ganilau.html (452 words)

	Fiji History
		In April 1987 the Alliance Party of Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara which had governed Fiji since independence lost a general election and was replaced by an NFP-Labour Coalition government.
		Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara was brought back as Prime Minister and formed a mostly civilian Cabinet containing four military officers including Rabuka.
		During that time political life was dominated by Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara and the Alliance Party which combined the traditional Fijian chiefly system with leading elements of the European part-European and Indian communities.
	www.world66.com /australiaandpacific/fiji/history (3349 words)

	Fiji - History
		A ministerial system of government was introduced in Fiji in 1967 and Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara was appointed as the Chief Minister and Members of the Executive Council became Council of Ministers.
		The 1970 Constitution was suspended and the then Governor — General, Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau described the seizure as unlawful and declared Fiji a state of public emergency.
		The President, in turn, invited the former Prime Minister, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara th be Prime Minister, to form an interim government and to steer the country through the following five years until the first general election of the Republic under the new Constitution which was promulgated on 25 July, 1990.
	www.appf.org.pe /countries/fiji/history.htm (608 words)

	Nation page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The chiefs nurtured by the late Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna were Ratu Sir Edward Tuivanuavou, Ratu Sir George Cakobau, Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau and then Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.
		Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara’s rise to leadership began when these high chiefs chose him to be the leader and spokesperson for the Constitutional Conference in London in 1965.
		Although the youngest of the four chiefs, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara took the role with dignity and nobility and led the delegation that saw Fiji becoming independent on Oct 10, 1970.
	www.thenational.com.pg /0430/nation14.htm (209 words)

	History of Fiji
		One Ratu (chief), Cakobau, gained limited control over the western islands by the 1850s, but the continuing unrest led him and a convention of chiefs to cede Fiji unconditionally to the British in 1874.
		Post-independence politics came to be dominated by the Alliance Party of Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.
		On December 6, Rabuka resigned as head of state and Governor General Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau was appointed the first President of the Fijian Republic.
	www.historyofnations.net /oceania/fiji.html (836 words)

	Fiji history (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Principal Government Officials President--Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara Prime Minister--Sitiveni Rabuka Minister of Foreign Affairs--Filipe Bole Minister of Commerce Trade and Industry--Isimeli Bose Leader of the Opposition--Jai Ram Reddy Fiji Head of Mission in the U.S.--Ambassador Pita Kewa Nacuva POLITICAL CONDITIONS For 17 years after independence Fiji was a parliamentary democracy.
		During that time political life was dominated by Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara and the Alliance Party which combined the traditional Fijian chiefly system with leading elements of the European part-European and Indian communities.
		Headed by New Zealand's Sir Paul Reeves the commission is to deliver its recommendations to Parliament on the constitution in mid-1996.
	www.palms-travel.com /travel/australasia-and-oceania-travel/fiji-travel/fiji-history.html (3383 words)

	Pacific Magazine: A Life Of Achievement
		Ratu Mara’s body was guarded during his wake.
		Born May 6, 1920 on Vanua Balavu Island in the Lau Group, Ratu Sir Kamisese Kapaiwai Tuimacilai Mara grew up on his island until he left in 1926 for Sacred Heart Convent in Levuka to begin his schooling.
		Mara succeeded Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, as president after the latter's death in December 1993.
	www.pacificislands.cc /issue/2004/06/01/a-life-of-achievement?printview=1 (639 words)

	Print Article: Dedicated and distinguished in his adopted land
		When Sir Leonard Usher, who has died at his home in Suva at the age of 96 after 73 years in Fiji, published his memoirs in 1987, his old friend Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, Fiji's governor-general, agreed to launch it.
		The consequences of what turned out to be two coups by Rabuka, the suspension of the constitution and declaration of a republic, were testing times for all citizens of that Commonwealth country and especially for Fiji's constitutional head of state, the Queen, and her staff in Buckingham Palace, for whom reliable information was restricted.
		Heseltine said in his foreword to the book that "the Queen was constantly to surprise those with whom she dealt over those distressing days by the depth and width of her knowledge of the shifting current of events in Suva.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/09/18/1063625148498.html (711 words)

	Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau Biography
		Ratu Ganilau was Governor General at the time of the 1987 coups carried out by Lieutenant Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.
		After the first coup on May 14, 1987, Ganilau defiantly refused to give up the office of Governor General.
		Prior to his appointment as Governor-General, Ganilau served as a member of Parliament since 1963, and as a Cabinet Minister.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Ganilau_Ratu_Sir_Penaia.html (418 words)

	Biography of Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ratu Ganilau was Governor General at the time of the 1987 coups carried out by Lieutenant Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.
		After the first coup on May 14, 1987, Ganilau defiantly refused to give up the office of Governor General.
		Prior to his appointment as Governor-General, Ganilau served as a member of Parliament since 1963, and as a Cabinet Minister.
	biography-1.qardinalinfo.com /g/Ganilau_Ratu_Sir_Penaia.html (407 words)

	Fiji Coup 2000: The New Western Confederacy
		Ratu Sir George Cakobau of Bau became the first Governor-General, with Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara (paramount chief of Lau) as Prime Minister for nearly two decades.
		Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, paramount of Cakaudrove (Lau's partner in the Tovata) next became Governor-General, and after the 1987 Coups the President, replaced in turn by Mara.
		Following this, Ratu Osea Gavidi (who has been so much to the fore in reports of the recent events in Western Fiji) formed the Western United Front.
	www.justpacific.com /fiji/fijicoup2000/fijiwest.html (1695 words)

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