Educational Tv Comes
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To Massacre Bay
Governor Owen S. Aspinall and other top officials in American Samoa travelled in the Coast Guard cutter "Cape Providence" from Pago Pago to the village of Asu, on the north west coast of Tutuila, on September 2 for the dedication of a new school where the children will be taught by television.
Asu is famous in the history of the South Pacific as the place where Captain de Langle and 11 other members of the French expedition of La Perouse were massacred when they went ashore for water in December, 1787. The bay on which the village is situated has since been known as Massacre Bay.
Although Asu is only miles from Pago Pago as the crow flies, the mountains between it and Pago Pago are so precipitous that com munication between it and the capital, or anywhere else on Tutuila, is still virtually impossible except by sea. This is why it has had to wait nearly three years for its ETV.