Factoid/2004/03/04
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Why Don't We Restore the Marshall Islands, too?
- "Tomaki Juda, a Marshallese senator, notes the U.S. expenditures to help rebuild the infrastructure destroyed by the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Why won't they do the same for us?" he asks." - excerpt refers to damages done to the islands and native people from the U.S. atomic tests conducted within the Marshall Islands in the 1950s. Excerpt appears in the ENN article at http://www.enn.com/news/2004-03-03/s_13655.asp.
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