immediate attention and solution. To that end, President ca Kabua, in his message to the Pacific Islands Conference: Development the Padific Way, held at the East-West Center in Honolulu, March 26-29, 1980, singled out telecommunication as one of the most pressing and urgent mafters for Pacific island development. He said: We should include in our regional development studi a determination of investment priorities for t telecommunication infrastructure services which c impact directly upon information storage ai transfer, delivery of health care service agricultural distribution conservation. of and industrial goods and services, deve lopmen and ener The Honorable Amata Kabua, however, sounded a cle warning: Our Pacific Island communities reflect a unique a diverse cultural heritage. Every effort should made to preserve that legacy and to ensure that o young people remain sensitive the the uniqueness their traditions. The need for cultural preservati becomes increasingly urgent in the face of the rapi social and cultural changes occurring throughout t world and our region in particular. H. Education Most existing schools on the Marshal! Islands are elementafy schools. There are, however, four High Schools in the capital Majuro: Govefnemnt, Catholic, Congregational, and Seventh-day Adventist. deeply aware of The Marshallese ar the importance of education in the modern world. They seek very opportunity possible to ask for help in either upgrading their schools whe they have them, or in starting new ones. There seems to be a certain hesitancy on their part] to accord full recognition and respect to teachers who are fellow-Marshalile - prefer help from the United States because they perceive, as entioned before, that U.S. They seem to teachers by definition are better than Marshallese Eeachers or other non-Marshallese such as Filipinos. Several magistrates from[different atolls extended open invitations, even with a degree of urgnecy, to cbhme and upon up a school in their area. “We'll provide the land for you, oe do all we 1 possibly can to help you, only come," seems to be a typical plpa. 10