interests

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Marshall interests

Sir, WHILE I appreciate the investment of time Arthur King made in responding to my letter ( PIM December ’93), his analytical nitpicking of phrases that hit his hot button then fabricating illusions of atoll-grabbing “Hawaii-based Trusts” (have you heard of one?) places him in the same boat as the likes of Mr Miller whose “creative” intrusion in the Mar shalls cost him more than just the loss of his dream castle.

Mr King’s fame as a professional tourist hardly gives him license to presume that the Trust (created by

perhaps the now highest-ranking

Marshallese chief out of his love and for the benefit of all Marshallese people, the “beneficiaries”) would follow in the steps of Mr Miller’s company (“throw out their destructive inhabitants”), who were on a course bent on displacing native Marshallese citizens from their land and birthrights for profit. Have a little respect.

Mr Miller was stopped, yes, not by the Trust manager, but by Marshallese interests as we forewarned. Stay tuned for the sequel.

I also appreciate Mr King’s worry for my personal happiness, which, I admit, would be mildly enhanced by the eradication of the type of inflammatory, ignorant, presumptive and quasi slanderous “gibberish” he penned.

I suggest that if Mr King has any real interest in “their urgent need for con structive investment” or has one wit of constructive counsel that would help a “sovereign nation sorely in need of imaginative investment”, that he put his money where his pen is and join the efforts of the Iroijlaplap Murjel Hermios Eleemosynary Trust to remedy the dependence of the Marshallese economy on the almighty US welfare dollar.

Thank you for your continued sup port.

Yokwe

Executive director Iroijlaplap Murjel Hermios Eleemosynary Trust Honolulu Hawaii

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