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Senator Clifford Casé
United States Senate
Washington, D.C,
Dear Senator Case;
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I've deciced to confront you with a serious problem facing my wife
and I and 300 people with whom we are living.
I am making you the
sounding board knowing the kind of man you are and that you represent
mo in the Senate,
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My wite Hope and I ax > Serves two years in the Peace Corps.
We
have been assigned to the isolated island of Kili in the Marshall
Isiands District of the Trust‘territery.
if after hearing the word
Kili you don't know what my problem is, you are an example of how
important it is for me to write this Letter.
Please don't take that
ast statencnt as an insult; it's intention was to make the point tnat
there are only a hanéful of people that know about the people of Kili
wheir distressing situation.
If you are aware of the Kili problem,
then I am further justified in choosing you to hear me out,
Looxing at any map, whether of the world or Pacific Ocean, you
will probably NO? find Kili.
It is on neither such maps that we
received with our Peace Corps book ccllection,
We have written and
received an up-to-date picture series of Australia and the Pacific
had apparently "sunk",
wno knows: about this
we left for training,
ntire Trust Territory
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Islands, and not only was Kili missing,the
One last example to show3you my doubts as to-
problem occurred in the United States just before
I wanted my subscription to a popular weekly
newS magazine to reach me at our training site in Micronesia.
queried
the mailing
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& departmant as to whether or notithe
would
send my subscription of
of Micronesia.
I
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could and
In turn, I received a letter.
stating that maybe I had misspelled the word or was inaccurate-in some
Way9° because ney could not find the NedtyHa
icronesia anywhere in the
United States3"
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Assuming, as I mast, that you are not fully aware of this problem,
‘I will briefly explain the history of these people.
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