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removal of a member

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of the

executive branch

The jusvizss of the Trust Territory High Court are appointed

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They have no term of office and are

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ne reople of the Trust Territory have no control over the identities
Tne persons apoointed and no power to effect the removal of a judge

the appointment of judges.
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Bills passed by the ee
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oP oronesia can oe,

and often are, vetoed by the High Commissioner.
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the Congress of Micronesia.

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of the Trust Territory without the concurrence of the Congress”

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iitsronesia.

This cower was exercised as ‘recently as Decenber,“T974.

Interior Order No. 2969, December 26, 1974.

23.

Bikini Atoll is our home.

Our ancestors settled the

atill long before the 2ussian explorer Otto Von Kotzebue became,
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vhe first Zurcvean to discover the Atoll.

We have resided

~nere since time immemorial until exiled by the United States in

5 tt make way for nuclear testing.
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In early 1944 we were removed by the United States from

sur ancestral homelend because Bikini Atoll had been selected as a.
Mwazlear test site ov the United States.
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We | aid not desire relocation,
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