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Tattooed clan chiefs wearing lava-lava skirts still stroll across the main square of Pago Pago just as they did when young Willie Maugham stopped off and scribbled the notes for Rain...
...dedicated an educational TV network that in two months of operation has transformed the islands. The net centers on a big (40,000 watts) transmitter, lifted to the top of 1,600-ft. Mt. Alava by a new, mile-long cable tramway that sways giddily over .Pago Pago Harbor...
...farm specialist, arrived in Pago Pago in 1961 to find the territory's schooling in a mess. Most of the 300 teachers had educations equivalent only to a Stateside fifth grade. Teaching for the 5,500 pupils was supposed to be in English, "but the teacher's own English was unintelligible. It was merely a case of the blind leading the blind." With an assist from Ohio's Democratic Representative Michael J. Kirwan (whose son John is assistant director of the U.S. Department of Interior office responsible for overseeing American Samoa), Lee wangled $1,600,000 from...
...Pago Pago, American Samoa...
...Pago Pago on the Fourth of July, a 400-lb. U.S. construction worker, William C. Brown Jr., better known as Puka (Fat) Bill, was arrested without a warrant for threatening to shoot the Governor. The alleged threat had been made at a private party eleven days before. Held incommunicado for 48 hours, he was charged with violating American Samoa's sweeping civil rights law by "intimidating" Governor Lee in "the free exercise or enjoyment of his constitutional right to life, liberty or property." Possible penalty: three years in jail, a $1,500 fine or both...