•FSM Congress Special Issue FEATURING SIXTH CONGRESS MEMBERS & BIOGRAPHIES FRITZ, Jack (Truk States: 2-year incumbent Senator JulioAkapito as March 23, I960, on Kuttu Islands, term) - In the Sixth FSM" Congress representative of the Southern Mortlocks, served as an interpreter leadership, the two-year term Namoneas in the Truk Lagoon, the in the -I975 Micronesian Speaker Jack Fritz, of Truk State states' Third Congressional District. Constitutional Convention and re- was elected to the Second FSM Fritz, who also was the speaker in ceived a BA degree in political sci- Congress in 1981 when he defeated the Fifth FSM Congress, was born (Please see BIOGRAPHIES, Page 3)

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AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE PEOPLE OF FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA PresidentVolume 10 Kolonia,attends Pohnpei, July 20th15, 1989 forumNumber 7 TARAWA, Kiribati July 12, 1989 (FSM 11 with the signing of the Tarawa Declara- Jackson who writes for PACNEWS. INFORMATION SERVICE) - The 20th tion which expresses profound concern of The Tarawa Declaration, was signed by South Pacific Forum, which was held in the the Forum countries over the driftnet fishing heads of Governments of Australia, the conference center of the newly opened activities by Japanese and Taiwanese fish- Cook Islands, FSM, Kiribati, New Zealand, Otintaai Hotel, in Tarawa, Republic of Ki- ing fleets, according to FSM Congress Nauru, Niue, Republic of the Marshall Is- ribati, was officially close the evening of July Assistant Public Information Officer Robert lands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands were represented by their Deputy Prime Minis- ters, Tonga by its Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence and Western Samoa by its Minister of Justice and Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Tarawa Declaration commends the Republic of Korea for its decision to cease drift net fishing in the Pacific waters and calls on Japan and Taiwan to follow Korea and abandon immediately their damaging driftnet operations. Provisions in the Declaration calls for an urgent meeting of regional diplomatic, legal and fisheries experts to develop a Conven- tion to give effect to its common resolve to U.S. REP OFFICE CELEBRA TES INDEPENDENCE DA Y - FSM Vice President Hirosi H. create a zone free of drift net fishing, and Ismael, second form left, joined U.S. Representative to FSM, the Honorable Michael G. Wygant, far left, in toasting to the health and well-being of their Presidents and the warm calls on the international community to diplomatic relationship between their two countries and the 213th Anniversary of United support, and cooperate in the urgent con- States Independence during the July-4th get together at the Office of the U.S. Representative clusion of Convention establishing the in Kolonia. Rep. Wygant, citing President George Bush Independence Day Message, told zone. the packed reception room that "July 4th is a day to pause and thank God that men such as Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin had the strength, courage and insight to forge a nation The Forum also adopted a Communique predicated upon the noble ideal "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by inviting South Pacific countries to partici- their creator with certain unalienable rights.'" (Please see FORUM, Page 2) O5 oo Forum 10 (Continued from Page 1) communication to New Caledonia, stating According to a spokesman for the Forum, pate in a post-Forum Dialogue with repre- that the Forum had reviewed recent devel- the new division within the Secretariat will sentative panel of Forum leaders, and ac- opments there and expressed deep sad- have the capacity-to assist Forum countries cepted with pleasure the invitation by the ness over the assassination of the Kanak in economic analysis and development Prime Minister of Vanuatu to host the 21 st Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) planning. South Pacific Forum. It also noted the leaders Jeana Marie Tjibaon and Yeiwene A unanimous decision by the Forum •z. generous offer of the FSM to host the 22nd Yeiwene. countries expressed that every effort should ZD South Pacific Forum in 1991. The Forum Governments, as the com- be made to establish cooperative effort in Two issues which dominated the two-Yap adding that if a prospect of a worst scenario TION SERVICE) - Dennis K. Yamase of State Code in 1987. Pearl City, Hawaii, was recently appointed Yamase also previously served as Legislative occurs for the smaller islands nations, Aus- by the Sixth FSM Congress as its Legisla- Counsel for the Senate in the Palau National tralia and New Zealand are willing to accom- Congress (Olbiil Era Kelulau) while concurrently modate the relocation of the people from tive Counsel. Yamase, who replaces Seth Forman of serving as legal counsel for the Republic of Palau those small islands. Stamford, New York, previously served as Reapportionment Commission in 1985. On the issue of driftnet fishing, the forum counsel for the Fifth FSM Congress Com- He also served as a Law clerk for the FSM has unanimously adopted a declaration to Supreme Court Associate ban it in the South Pacific region and to mittee on Health, Educa- tion and Social Affairs Justice Richard Benson, in eventually extend it worldwide. Truk in 1983; law clerk for Driftnet fleets use the most destructive of (HESA) while working on Republic of Palau Su- fishing techniques. They suspend from the re-codification of the FSM preme Court Chief Justice sea surface huge fishing nets (about 30 Code; served as an asso- Mamoru Nakamura in thousand miles of netsdaily) that indiscrimi- ciate with Dandar, 1983, and worked on ap- nately trapping fish, dolphins, whales, Manuia and Castroverde pellate cases and drafted seals, turtles and seabirds, according to as- law firm of Honolulu, Republic of Palau Court sertions by some Forum countries. Hawaii, with an emphasis rules fo civil, criminal, and With fishing being the single most impor- in public utilities commis- appellate procedures. sion, worker's compensa- During his second year tant economic resource to most of the Fo- in law school, Yamase rum countries, the declaration expresses a tion, and general corporate forceful view in support of the long-held view work; also previously served as a Special Assis- served as a legal intern for the FSM Congress of the Forum opposing the driftnet fishing. tant to Republic of Palau Supreme Court Chief and FSM Supreme Court in 1981 when he Countries who usually conducted driftnet Justice in 1986 for special assignments while he drafted the rules of procedure for the Yap State fishing in the Pacific waters are Japan, Tai- completed the Republic of Palau Reporter and Court- wan and South Korea. first and second supplements to the Palau Na- He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in tional Code. Secondary Education and Psychology from the During a press conference with Geoffrey Yamase, who previously served as executive University of Hawaii in 1979, and Juris Doctor Henry, Prime Minister of the Cook Islands, it secretary for the Palau National Code Commis- from the Richardson School of Law, University of was learned that the Forum has sent a sion, also completed the first Palau National Hawaii in 1982. H BIOGRAPHIES I m

(Continued from Page 1) Kosrae. the Pohnpei State Scholarship ence in I974 and law degree in 1979 Vice Speaker Phillip served as Board and a member of the FSM o from the University of Hawaii. He member of the Kosrae State Politi- Task Force on cholera. z was admitted to the T.T. Bar Asso- cal Status Commission, Kosrae He is married to former Martha ciation and worked as a legislative Transportation authority Board of Elnei and they have five children. I— counsel in Truk, before being Directors and member of the Col- c elected to the Congress where he lege of Micronesia (COM) Board of Chairman Christian z served as Judiciary and Govern- Regents from I970 to I985. CHRISTIAN, Peter (POHNPEI o mental Operations Committee He married to former Betty Olkeriil State: 2-year term) - Senator Peter c_ chairman in the third and fourth of Palau and they have three chil- Christian was elected the Chairman c congresses. He also serves as a dren. of the Committee on Ways and member of the FSM Supreme Court Means in the Sixth FSM Congress, and the Pohnpei State Supreme ffoor Leader Jtalbert and member of the Committees on 01 Bar associations. HALBERT, Dohsis H. (POHNPEI External Affairs, and Transportation State: Two-year term) - The Sixth CD Speaker Fritz also served as Vice and Communications. He served oo Chairman of the status Commission FSM Congress Floor Leader Sena- as vice chairman of the Committee CD on the FSM Commission on Future tor Dohsis Halbert was elected on Ways and Means in the Fifth Political Status and Transition and March 3,1987, to the two-year seat Congress, representing the Third its Chairman of the Committee on replacing former Congress Congressional District composed of Transition. Speaker Bethwel Henry as repre- U, Nett, Mwoakilloa and Pingelap. The Speaker is married to former sentative of the First Congressional Senator Christian was also the Francy Bossy of Moen and they District in Pohnpei which includes chairman of the Ways and Means have five children. Kolonia Town, Sokehs, and the is- Committee during the Fourth FSM lands of Kapingamarangi, Nukuoro Congress. Senator Christian is also 'Vice Speaker tPhittip and Sapwuahfik. currently the chairman of the PHILLIP, Claude (KOSRAE The former Fifth FSM Congress' Pohnpei Congressional Delega- State: two-year term) - Vice Health, Education and Social Af- tion. Speaker Phi Hip of Kosrae State was fairs Chairman, also served as a Born Oct. 16,1947 in Pohnpei, at- elected to the Third FSM Congress member of the Committees on tended Xavier High School in Truk, in I983 to replace Hirosi H. Ismael Resources and Development, and the University of Hawaii and took when the latter gave up the Kosrae Judiciary and Governmental Op- courses at the Honolulu Business two-year seat. Phi Hip served as erations during the Fifth FSM Con- College. Senator Christian was a Vice chairman of the Judiciary and gress and serves currently as member of the Pohnpei State Legis- Governmental Operations Commit- member of Sixth FSM Congress lature before being elected to the tee during the Fourth Congress and committees on Judiciary and Gov- First Congress of the FSM. was member of the Committees on ernmental Operations, Health, He is a prominent member of the Ways and Means, and Resources Education and Social Affairs, and State of Pohnpei Business Commu- and Development during the Fifth Resources and Development. nity serving at one time as president FSM Congress. Born in Sokehs, Oct. 28, I949, of the Ponape Chamber of Com- Phillip, who served as Floor Halbert was graduated from the merce. He also served as chairman Leader in the Fifth FSM Congress, Pohnpei Islands Central School of the Board of Directors of the was born Nov. 21,1947, in Kosrae. (PICS), received an Associate of Ponape Community Action Agency, He graduated from Kosrae High Science degree from the Commu- the Ponape District Employment School in I967 and received a nity College of Micronesia (CCM) in Service Officer, and also served as Bachelor of Arts degree in political Pohnpei. He was serving as Ponape Field Services Officer. science from Doane College, Crete, Pohnpei State Supreme Court Senator Christian is married to Nebraska; served as a Social Stud- Chief Clerk when he was elected to former Maurina Weilbacher of U ies instructor at the Micronesian the Fifth Congress. He previously and they have two children. Occupational College (MOC), Pa- served as an elementary teacher, lau; as Marshall Islands District War Claims field representative, Chairman fatcam Civic Affairs Officer and also served CCM administrative assistant and FALCAM, Leo A. (POHNPEI as Public Defender's representa- Ponape District Court Clerk. State: four-year term) - Senator Leo tive and a Land Commissioner for Senator Halbert also served on (Continued on Page 6) 4 Members af the Sixth FSM Congress are feat

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be.mior Redley Killion Senator Leo A. Falcam Four-Year Term, Truk State Four-Year Term, Pohnpei Chairman, Transportation State and Communications (T&C) Chairman, External Affairs Sixth FSM Congress Sixth FSM Congress

Senator Peter Christian Speaker Jack Fritz Two-Year Term, Pohnpei Two-Year Term, Truk State Chairman, Ways & Means Sixth FSM Congress Chairman, Pohnpei Delega- tion Sixth FSM Conaress

Senator Kalisto Refalopei Senator Isaac V. Figir Two-Year Term, Truk State Two-Year Term, Yap State Vice Chairman, R&D Senator Nick Bossy Chairman, Judiciary & Chairman, Truk Delegation Two-Year Term, Truk State Governmental Operations Sixth FSM Congress Chairman, Resources & (J&GO) Development (R&D) Chairman, Yap Delegation Sixth FSM Congress Sixth FSM Congress ured here with biographies on pages 1 thru 8 5 n: Congress m

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Senator Joseph Urusemal Senator Jacob Nena E Four-Year Term, Yap State Four-Year Term, Kosrae tl Vice Chairman, Health, Chairman, Health, Education 5" & Social Affairs (HESA) Education & Social Affairs CO Sixth FSM Congress 00 Sixth FSM Congress CO

Vice Speaker Claude Phillip Floor Leader Dohsis Halbert Two-Year Term, Kosrae Two-Year Term, Pohnpei Chairman, Kosrae Delega- State tion Sixth FSM Congress Sixth FSM Congress

Senator Wagner Lawrence Two-Year Term, Pohnpei State Vice Chairman, Transporta- Senator Tony Otto Senator Nishima Yleizah tion &. Communications Two-Year Term, Truk State Two-Year Term, Truk State Sixth FSM Congress Vice Chairman, Ways & Vice Chairman, J&GO & Means External Affairs Sixth FSM Congress Sixth FSM Congress Truk State, was elected to the working for a graduate degree in Oi Fourth FSM Congress in 1985 by public administration and business GO OJ (Continued from Page ) defeating incumbent Sasao Gou- management. A. Falcam was elected the Chair- land in the Second Truk Congres- Senator Nena began his public LO man of External Affairs Committee sional District service career by teaching at PICS in the current Sixth FSM Congress. which includes Pis-Moen, Fono, High School, served as Ponape Falcam served as vice chairman of and Moen. He has been a member District Political Affairs Officer, Act- the Committees on Judiciary and of the Health, Education and Social ing District Rep. and Deputy District z Governmental Operations, and Affairs Committee, and was the Rep. for Kosrae when Kosrae was a o Health, Education and Social Af- Chairman of the Committee on sub-district for Pohnpei. Nena be- fairs, and a member of the External Resources and Development and came the first elected Governor for Affairs Committee during the Fifth the Fifth FSM Congress. He was Kosrae State, but lost his re-elec- FSM Congress. elected as Chairman of the Re- tion bid for Kosrae governorship to z He was born, Nov. 20, 1935 in sources and Development Commit- Yosiwo George in 1983. He served o Pohnpei and was graduated from tee in the Sixth FSM Congress. as the Executive Director for the the University of Hawaii and did his Bossy was bom Sept. 12,1936, in Kosrae Transportation Authority graduate studies at the Woodrow Truk where he attended Xavier and was a private businessman High School. He also attended the until his election to the Fifth FSM LJJ Wilson School of Public administra- X tion and international affairs, at University of Hawaii and served as a Congress in 1987. h- Princeton University, New Jersey. Truk Hospital lab assistant, Mari- Senator Nena was a member of He was a delegate and Chairman of anas District personnel director the Commission on Political Status the Pohnpei delegation to the 1975 prior to returning to Truk in that post, and Transition, Chairman of Lelu Micronesian Constitutional Con- a position which he held until his Municipal Government vention, and was elected one of the election to the former Sixth Con- Constitutional Convention, presi- Convention's vice presidents. gress of Micronesia in 1974. During dent of Lelu PTA and Lelu Christian Earlier, Falcam served as Politi- the Sixth Congress of Micronesia, Endeavor, member of the Kosrae cal Affairs and Executive Officer on he was appointed to serve on the State Constitutional Convention the High Commissioner's staff in the Joint Committee on Administrative serving as Chairman of the Commit- former Trust Territory Government. Appointments, the Micronesian tee on Government Structure and A former Assistant District Adminis- Delegation to the Law of the Sea Operations, and once accompa- trator, he, later became District Conference, and on the Joint Com- nied President Tosiwo Nakayama Administrator of Pohnpei District. mittee on Micronesian Claims. to the South Pacific Forum. Senator Falcam was the first He is married to former Lerina elected Governor for Pohnpei. He Chairman 9{ena Jack and they have nine children. also served as a Liaison Officer for NENA, Jacob (KOSRAE State: Chairman figir the then FSM Washington Liaison four-years) - Senator Jacob Nena, FIGIR, Isaac V. (YAP State: Two- Office, and the Chairman of the who was elected during the Con- year term) - Judiciary and Govern- Pohnpei Constitutional Convention gressional Special Election to the mental Operations Chairman Sena- from 1983-84. at-large four-year term seat for tor Isaac Figir of Yap State was Senator Falcam served as the Kosrae vacated by the Honorable elected to Third Congress in I983 by first FSM Postmaster General until Hirosi H. Ismael when the latter was defeating the then incumbent Floor March 1987, when he was elected to elected Vice President of the FSM, Leader Luke Tman for the Yap two- the Pohnpei at-large four-year seat is currently the Chairman of the year seat. in the Fifth FSM Congress. Committees on Health, Education He served as External Affairs Falcam also served as the Presi- and Social Affairs and member of Chairman during the Fourth Con- dent of the FSM Bank and member the Committee on Resources and gress and became the chairman of of the Bank's Board of Directors, Development and External Affairs Judiciary and Governmental Op- and serves as member of PATS Committee. erations in the Fifth Congress and Board of Trustees and the PATS Born October 10, 1941 in Lelu, served on the committee on Ways PEACE Foundation. Kosrae State, Senator Nena gradu- and Means, also during the Fifth Senator Falcam is married to for- ated from the Pacific Islands Central Congress. mer Iris Green of Honolulu and they School (PICS), received his Bache- Figirwas born on August 20,1947, have four children. lor of Arts degree in political science in Yap. He was graduated from Yap with a minor in English and Eco- High School, received a BA degree Chairman 'Bossy nomics from the College of Guam. in behavioral sciences from the BOSSY, Nick (TRUK State: 2- In 1971, he was given an East-West University of Guam in I97I and a year term) - Senator Nick Bossy of Center grant and at the same time (Continued on Page 7) Bachelors of Arts degree from the Fourth FSM Congress as vice chair- 7 man of the Committee of External H figir. University of Hawaii in economics. I (Continued from Page, 6) Killion held various posts at the Affairs. m Senator Refalopei is married to Masters of Science degree in social Trust Territory Department of Re- former Mandalay Weital of Mado- sciences from Southern Illinois Uni- sources and Development, and the versity, Carbondale, Illinois, in 1975. Office of Planning and Statistics. lenihmw, Pohnpei. o He served in Yap as a radio an- He served as Truk State's first z nouncer and disc jockey, and legal Directorof Resources and Develop- Senator yfeizah > ment and at the same time served r— counsel for Micronesian Legal YLEIZAH, Nishima (TRUK State: c Services Corporation, and in as memberof various FSM national two-year term) - Senator Nishima boards; FSM Development Bank, z Pohnpei was a Researcher and Yleizah who served as the vice O later became Executive Director of FSM Foreign Investment Board, chairman of the Committee on Ex- the FSM Commission on Future National Fisheries Corporation, in- ternal Affairs in the Fifth FSM Con- Political Status and Transition cluding the ad hoc committees rep- gress is now the chairman of the (CFPS&T). resenting Truk State. Committees on Judiciary and Gov- He is married to former Jacinta Senator Figir served on the Board ernmental Operations and the Ex- en of Directors of WAAB Transporta- Antonio and they have seven chil- ternal Affairs. tion Company and Yap Cooperative dren. Yleizah, who also served as CD co Association (YCA) in Yap State, member of the Ways and Means, CD and the Bank of the FSM. He is also Senator %efafopei and Judiciary and Governmental a memberof the FSM Task Force on Operations committees in the Fifth Airlines. REFALOPEI, Kalisto (TRUK FSM Congress, is a two-year term He is married to former Mary State: two-year term) - Senator Senator representing the First Con- Berngun Figir of Gagil, Yap State, Kalisto Refalopei, who represents gressional District of Truk, the who presently serves as the Direc- the Second Congressional District Mortlock Islands. He previously tor of Yap State Health Services. which includes the Faichuk Islands served as the Special Assistant to The Senator and his wife have four in the Truk Lagoon since being the First FSM President Tosiwo children. elected to the First Congress in 1979 Nakayama when elected to Con- as a two-year term senator, is the gress on March 3,1987 over veteran Chairman 9Q(Cwn Chairman of Truk Congressional Senator Raymond Setik. KILLION, Redley (TRUK State: Delegation and currently serves as Born July 2, 1945 in Truk, and a four-year term) - Senator Redley the vice chairman of the Resources graduate of the University of Guam Killion was first elected to Congress and Development Committee in the with a Bachelor of Arts degree in in March 1987 by defeating incum- Sixth FSM Congress. political science. bent Senator Kiochi Sana for the Refalopei previously served as He served as Truk District Civic Truk at-large four-year seat. In the Chairman of the Committee on Ex- Affairs Officer, Assistant Clerk and Fifth Congress, Senator Killion ternal Affairs and was a member of Clerk of the former Congress of served as vice chairman on the the Committee on Resources and Micronesia Senate, Clerk of the Ways and Means Committee and Development in the Fifth FSM FSM Interim Congress, FSM Con- was a memberof the committees on Congress. gress Chief Clerk and FSM External Resources and Development Refalopei was born July 16,1946, Affairs Department Liaison Officer (R&D), and Health, Education and on Wonei Island, Truk State and in Honolulu and Guam. Social Affairs (HESA). attended St. Julia School, Truk Senator Yleizah also served as Killion became the Chairman of Intermediate School and Faichuk the FSM Department of External the newly created Committee on Project School. He served in the Affairs Administrative Officer and a Transportation and Communica- Truk District Legislature, was a member of the FSM Job Training tions in the Sixth FSM Congress. Policeman for the then Truk District, Partnership Act (JTPA) council. Born Oct. 23,1951 on Moen Island, and a member in the FSM Interim The Senator is married to former Truk State, was awarded a Con- Congress. Missy Yoma of Pohnpei and they gress of Micronesia scholarship to In the Sixth and Seventh Con- have four children. complete his senior high school gress of Micronesia, Senator Refa- education at Marit High School in lopei served on the House Commit- Senator Otto Eugene, Oregon. He was gradu- tees on appropriation and Health OTTO, Tony (TRUK State: two- ated from Vanderbilt University, Matters, a position he also held year term) - Senator Tony Otto of Nashville, Tennessee, with a Mas- during the Interim Congress of the Truk, who served as the chairman of ters degree in economic develop- FSM. Ways and Means Committee in the ment and planning, received his Senator Refalopei served in the (Continued on Page 8) 8 Vice Chairman of the Committee on Fifth FSM Congress Vice Speaker 05 Otto Health, Education and Social Af- Elias Thomas as representative of 00 O fairs and a member on the Commit- Pohnpei State Second Congres- (Continued from Page 7) tees on Transportation and Com- sional District. Fifth FSM Congress, was elected to munications, Resources and De- Lawrence, 37, graduated from 10 the Truk two-year seat in the Third velopment, and External Affairs in Xavier High School in Truk in 1970 FSM Congress in 1983 by defeating the Sixth FSM Congress. and attended Seattle University, u incumbent Senator Masachiro -3 Urusemal, who graduated from Seattle, Washington State, for Christlib [now Truk Legislature Xavier High School in Truk and from three years majoring in education Speaker] in the Truk Fifth Congres- Rockhurst College, Kansas City, and mirroring in sociology. O sional District which includes the Missouri, with a Bachelor of Arts Lawrence currently is the Vice z Halls and Western Islands. degree in Justice Administration, Chairman of the newly created Otto served as Health Education previously served as member of the Committee on Transportation and and Social Affairs Committee Chair- Communications and member of Z Committees on Health, Education man during the Fourth Congress and Social Affairs, External Affairs Committees on Ways and Means O and was also member of the Com- in the Fifth FSM Congress. and Resources and Development in mittees on Judiciary and Govern- Urusemal was elected to the Fifth the Sixth FSM Congress. mental Operations, and Health, FSM Congress during a Special Senator Lawrence previously Education and Social Affairs in the 111 Election for the at-large four-year served as Community Develop- I Fifth Congress. term seat for Yap State vacated by ment Division Chief for the Pohnpei Otto was born Jan. 31, 1948, in the Honorable John R. Haglelgam State Government, Speaker of Truk. He attended Truk High when he was elected the FSM Isokohnedi (Municipal Council of School and worked two years as a Kitti); also served as member of teacher before attending the Truk President on May 11,1987. Senator Urusemal was born, Board of Pohnpei Transportation Teacher Education Center (TRU- March 19,1952,in Woleai, Yap State. Authority (PTA), JTPA Board, and TEC), received an Associate of He served as a Correction Officer in Micronesian Endowment for His- Science degree in education from Jackson County, Missouri. He was toric Preservation, and was Director CCM, Pohnpei State, and a Bache- a classroom teacher and counselor of Pohnpei State Department of lor of Arts degree from the Univer- at the Outer Islands High School on Land before his election to Con- sity of Hawaii. Falalop, Ulithi, positions he held gress. He previously served as Commu- until his election to the Congress. Lawrence is married to former nity College of Micronesia student He also served one year on the Yap Annette Santos also of Kitti and they activities coordinator and physical State Education Five Year Plan have seven children. education instructor, Weipat Junior Steering Committee. High School teacher, Truk bilingual Senator Urusemal is married to ar, as Chief CCe education curriculum writer, MICAL Olania Latileilam and they have one KOLONIA, Pohnpei - Henry Asugar of Na- director and instructional supervisor child. moluk, Mortlocks, Truk State, was re-appointed before his election to the FSM as Chief Clerk for the Sixth FSM Congress. Congress in 1983. Senator Lawrence Asugar, 41, has been the chief clerk of the FSM Congress since his appointment in 1985 Senator llrusemaf LAWRENCE, Wagner Moses when he replaced former chief clerk Sintaro Ezra (POHNPEI State: two-year term) - of Pohnpei. URUSEMAL, Joseph (YAPState: Senator Wagner Moses Lawrence Asugar is married to former Maggie Maipi of four-year term) - Senator Joseph was elected on March 7,1989 when Lukunor, Mortlocks and they live in Kolonia with Urusemal is currently serving as he defeated a veteran senator and their five children.

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