Word: tupua
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...entwined in the country's political history. Arriving only months after the signing of the Berlin Treaty of 1889, which gave control of Samoa jointly to Germany, Britain and the U.S., the famous Scotsman put his weight behind the non-aligned chief Mata'afa. Former Prime Minister Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi says Stevenson's sympathies were with "indigenous people - their aspirations, their problems trying to hold their own against outsider influences, whether they were missionaries, colonial or business people." Nearly a quarter of a century after they gained independence, Samoans are relaxed in the author's presence. Each afternoon...
...Died. Tupua Tamasese Mea A Ole, 55, joint head of state (with Malietoa Tanumafili II) of Western Samoa. Polynesia's first, and so far only, independent nation, a shrewd and urbane politician, who negotiated his South Pacific island country's peaceful 1961 breakaway from New Zealand; of cancer; in Western Samoa...
...five-day freedom celebrations poured crowds of Samoans and scores of foreign dignitaries. A special commemoration service was held for Western Samoa's revered, onetime resident, Robert Louis Stevenson, who lived out his last consumptive years in the islands. Also on hand were Tupua Tamasese and Malietoa Tanuma-ili II, two of Western Samoa's paramount chiefs, who will jointly serve as head of state until they die. After their deaths, the 45-man legislature will elect a single head of state for a five-year term...
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