The military's mess: Johnston Atoll, the army's 'model' chemical disposal facility, is an environmental disaster.
Just 700 miles to the southeast of the sybarites enjoying the sun on Hawaii's Waikiki Beach, the U.S. Army maintains a $240 million island facility with a grim purpose. The Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System (JACADS) exists solely for the purpose of destroying obsolete - and frightening - chemical...

Aloha Airlines Begins Direct Service to Kwajalein.
HONOLULU, April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Hawaii-based Aloha Airlines today inaugurated the first direct service between Honolulu and Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The new Central Pacific service is Aloha's second weekly flight to the Marshall Islands from Honolulu, Hawaii. Aloha has operated weekly...

Chemical weapons treaty sets deadline.
On April 29, an international treaty banning chemical weapons went into effect. Ratified by 75 nations, including the United States but not Russia, the Chemical Weapons Convention stipulates that members must destroy all chemical stockpiles by 2007. The U.S. Army began incinerating the U.S. stockpile in 1990...

Creating positive cultural images: thoughts for teaching about American Indians.
Most children enjoy stories and school lessons about American Indians. They often find something inspirational about the lives of Chief Joseph, Crazy Horse, Geronimo and other great American Indian leaders. Although it is important to learn about these great American leaders, it is even more important for children to construct...

The Anzus States and Their Region: Regional Policies of Australia, New Zealand, and the United States.
The last of a series on the interrelationships of the ANZUS alliance, this book - with a comprehensive bibliography, tables, and a map - focuses on security, Pacific island, and economic policies. (It would be useful to have the cut-off date for updating these papers from a 1990 Canberra conference.)...

Combat not always part of a hero's past.
Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard MONROE - They are dying every day. Have been for years, at a rate of more than 1,000 a day, just like 400,000 of their brothers died in battle more than six decades ago. Only these deaths are from old...

Occupied world the facts.
THE POST-9/11 War on Terror has cast the spotlight on military occupations from Iraq to Chechnya. But the logic of occupation expands far beyond that as foreign military bases (mostly US) now span the globe. Moreover civilian populations are increasingly treated as an occupied people by their own national...

On the convergence of myth and reality: examples from the Pacific Islands.
Various (groups of) myths from the Pacific Islands are discussed. Generic groups considered are diluvian myths, myths involving abrupt subsidence, abrupt uplift, and simultaneous abrupt subsidence and uplift. Specific myths, recently validated, illustrate the superiority of the mythic explanation for recent volcanism over available geological information, and the possibility...

Taxonomia y distribucion de los corales hermatipicos (Scleractinia) del Archipielago de Revillagigedo, Mexico.
RESUMEN A pesar de los recientes registros detallados sobre los corales escleractinios del Archipiélago Revillagigedo, el trabajo taxonómico sobre esta fauna ha sido escaso. Por lo anterior, se hace necesario conformar una base taxonómica sólida para fundamentar otros trabajos a nivel comunitario, Las recolectas de los especímenes...

Seattle's legal legacy and environmental reviews of trade agreements.
[Executive Order 13,141 will] revolutionize the way the environment is dealt with in all future trade talks.(1) Former Vice President Al Gore From day one, we will be considering environmental issues, and integrating them throughout.(2) Ambassador Susan Esserman Former Deputy U.S. Trade Representative...