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...river. Their remoteness has protected them from many of civilization's problems, but it has also brought them few modern comforts. They have no electricity, purified water supply or hospitals; there are few working schools or telephones, and the only communication is via radios at the handful of mission stations dotted across the region...
...vera millionaire Rex Maugham in 1994. Not only the memory of the writing had faded - Vailima, too, had seen better days. After a 1990 cyclone all but destroyed what had become the official residence of Samoa's head of state, the foundation assumed responsibility for Vailima's restoration. Its mission: "to make this guy come alive again," explains Winegar...
...some hardship. Curragh and her Tongan colleagues, Seteone Polutele and 'Isileli Vei Koso, volunteered to be part of the country's Participating Police Force (PPF). Composed of officers from 11 Pacific nations, it's the law-and-order arm of the intervention force known as ramsi, the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands, that arrived two years ago to save a country heading for the scrap heap. Solomon Islanders were being killed and brutalized by rival militias, while a corrupt political and bureaucratic class, and a rogue Royal Solomon Islands Police (RSIP) force, either stoked the hate or failed...
...Funded mainly by Australian taxpayers, the rescue mission has spread peace, order - and a good deal of money. But the further one goes from Honiara, the capital, the smaller its presence becomes. Here in Munda, ramsi is Louise, Sete and 'Isi. "We're part of a big jigsaw puzzle," says Curragh. "Every person that comes out here adds something to it. We all bring different experiences. Hopefully, by the time we leave, we'll have made the next person's job a little easier." During the short time they will spend among these people, the Kiwi and Tongans will play...
...Japanese Pilot One man, training to pilot a submarine on a suicide mission, remembers Hiroshima