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Wray's argument was enough for Samoa's Chief Judge Arthur Morrow, 71, former dean of Iowa's Drake University Law School. Amazing the lavalava-clad spectators, Morrow declared the Samoan civil rights law null and void. Moreover, at Wray's request, Judge Morrow approved the arrest of Governor Lee's prosecutor for arresting Brown without a warrant (possible penalty: a $500 fine, a year in jail or both). Said one sober Samoan as he left the courtroom: "We now know that the American Constitution means something in American Samoa...
...ride goes high enough to offer a sweep of the jumble below, but still low enough to make the rider feel the clash of the architecture and the overall dynamic of the vast bazaar. If his timing is lucky, he can almost feel the heat as tawny Samoan youths prance beneath on mats of fire, and only moments later he may be staring down into the whites of the eyes of a dozen Zulus. He flies from Denmark to Switzerland via Ko rea, Venezuela, Central America, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Polynesia, Taiwan, the Philippines, Jordan, Lebanon, Greece, Malaysia, and most...
Most of those who saw the massive fireworks display were stunned into awe or fear by its magnificence. Samoan natives insisted that the moon had burst, and a Bible-reading lady in New Zealand called a newspaper office to ask calmly if the end of the world had begun. Watchers on the beach at Hawaii gasped in surprise at the unexpected daylight, and the pilot of a Canadian Pacific airliner flying to Sydney turned his plane about to give his passengers a breathtaking view of the eerie sight. "Everybody has seen fireballs in pictures." said an amazed Hawaiian...
Once a German colony, the Western Samoan islands at the end of World War I were mandated by the League of Nations to New Zealand, which at first harshly suppressed all independence movements, but since World War II systematically prepared the Samoans for independence...
...down the hotel, put up in its place 24 hotel bungalows, three swimming pools, a nightclub and bar. To be sure that his new toy was authentic, he used Polynesian architecture and decor (tiki gods. Hawaiian and Oriental furnishings, yards of tapa cloth, thousands of sea shells), had a Samoan Mormon colony thatch the bungalow roofs by hand. In the village's color scheme, he put heavy emphasis on coral pink. Said Kaiser: "Pink gives you a joyous feeling...