Reporting On Micronesia/Marshall Islands
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Stories: Micronesia/Marshall Islands
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Payback time
MARSHALL ISLANDS, Fall 1999 -- I'm in a high-rise office in central Honolulu and attorney Davor Pevec is showing me photos of the damage to his clients' property. There's ...
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Island Mulls Showcasing Rusting Land Relics
PELELIU, PALAU, Fall 1999 -- The jungle has enveloped the abandoned World War II Japanese military headquarters. Huge trees grow on the roof of the power plant, their aerial ...
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Crazed for kava
POHNPEI, MICRONESIA, Fall 1999 -- To an outsider, it looks like a jungle: lush, thick stands of tropical trees, vines and thick undergrowth stretching up the hillside toward ...
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America’s Half-Forgotten Islands
UMAN, FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA, Fall 1999 -- Sixty years ago, residents of this small tropical island had access to electricity, running water, paved roads, good ...
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Pacific Islands Renegotiate U.S. Payments
YAP, FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA, Fall 1999 -- Washington's hands-off approach to the grant payments it has sent to the Marshall Islands and Federated States of ...
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Japanese ‘Ghost Fleet’ Sinking - Again
CHUUK, FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA, Fall 1999 -- Beneath the bright azure surface of Truk Lagoon, the divers slowly descend into the deepening blue. After 50 feet or so, ...
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‘Jaws’: The New Cause of the Seas
HONOLULU, Fall 1999 -- Hawaii's commercial fishermen have long plied the vast Pacific Ocean in search of swordfish and tuna - the large offshore fish that supply succulent ...
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Generations of fallout from nuclear tests / Marshall Islands residents still waiting for U.S.
Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands, Fall 1999 -- Early one morning 45 years ago, an 11-year-old boy named Norio Kebenli was preparing to fish in the lagoon of Rongelap Atoll, a ...
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Islands Seek More Pay for Missile Tests
Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, Fall 1999 -- From the air, you'd never guess that Kwajalein Atoll was of considerable strategic significance to the United States. This remote ...
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South Pacific Battles for Y2K Bragging Rights
MAJURO, Marshall Islands, Fall 1999 -- In the uttermost reaches of the Pacific, four nations are jostling to be first to welcome the year 2000. They're squaring off in a kind ...
