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The World - News from June 30, 1985

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President Haruo I. Remeliik of the Western Pacific territory of Palau was killed by an unknown assailant, a presidential assistant said. Remeliik, in his second term and the only elected president the island republic has known, was shot as he walked from his car to his home in the capital city of Koror. Vice President Alfonso R. Oiterong, who was in New York, was returning immediately to Palau, officials said. Palau, a string of 200 islands, is part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific, administered by the United States.

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