World & Nation
Eni Faleomavaega, a Polynesian member of Congress just back from Mururoa atoll, predicted Wednesday that the resumption of French nuclear testing in the South Pacific will increase support for the independence movement in French Polynesia and lead to violence on the main island of Tahiti.
Sept. 7, 1995
Eni Faleomavaega won reelection to a fifth term as American Samoa’s nonvoting member of the U.S.
Nov. 21, 1996
California
A congressional hearing on gangs in the San Gabriel Valley will take place Friday at the El Monte Community Center.
June 3, 1993
Two lawmakers and the environmental group Greenpeace called today for a nationwide consumer boycott of canned tuna imported from countries whose fishing fleets use drift nets.
Oct. 25, 1989
CATALINA CACKLES: Imagine taking a trip to Hawaii, and getting there in just an hour by ferry.
Feb. 9, 1995
French President Jacques Chirac has announced that France will abandon its 1992 moratorium on nuclear testing and explode eight more nuclear bombs in the South Pacific beginning in September.
June 25, 1995
Sports
The Washington Redskins name-change controversy just won’t go away.
May 29, 2013
Boxer Curries the Hopes and Admiration of Samoan Countrymen
Nov. 10, 2000
Thousands of Tahitians, supported by politicians from around the world, marched arm in arm through the Tahitian capital on Saturday to step up pressure on Paris to cancel nuclear tests in the South Pacific.
Sept. 3, 1995
Residents of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa and Guam hold primaries and select delegates, but they cannot cast ballots in the general election.
April 9, 2000