Category: Social change

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FA’A Samoa Faces the World

313 Anolani St.  Honolulu, Hawaii Western Samoa is the home of the tribe that did not lose its head. Instead its 135,000 people have embarked on one of the more isolated but interesting experiments in the Pacific Area. It involves trying to preserve the biggest

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Coming of Age Via ETV

313 Anolani St.   Honolulu, Hawaii   The scene was not unlike those repeated thousands of times in the last century in colonial islands around the South Pacific: The Great White Governor was arriving for a ceremonial visit and the men of the small out-islands

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New Pacific Primer – I

Honolulu, Hawaii June 2, 1968   The following is a view of the Pacific Islands from Hawaii based on previous travels, reading and talks with area scholars, visiting islanders and concerned U.S. officials. It is a starting point for a year of study and travel

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Warsaw: Memories in Mortar

May 28, 1968   Warsaw, Poland — There are three Warsaws, blurred into one by bricks and mortar, ideology and memories. Living on in fond reminiscence is the city of Chopin and Madame Curie, which existed here before the Nazi invasion of 1939. The second

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A Tale Of Three Cities

Stuttgart March 31, 1968   Mr. Wilkins is an Alicia Patterson Fund award winner on leave from The Tacoma News Tribune, Tacoma, Washington.  This article may be published, with credit to Mr. Wilkins The Tacoma News Tribune, and the Alicia Patterson Fund. Question: Herr Wilkins,