lee oe a ee | - ce. . bareears+ome é 1110 v Pe Sn eee we Ons; . te SANE Ae “ sete mn he . wt jor . SDee : , [Outs _— Ce nanny wee choices ated AMD a og' cee : Lorne cote . e cl pas ¢ ten November 18, 1967 oo Senator Clifford Casé United States Senate Washington, D.C, Dear Senator Case; os 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, . 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 o 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 “s & departmant as to whether or notithe would send my subscription of of Micronesia. I : 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" . Assuming, as I mast, that you are not fully aware of this problem, ‘I will briefly explain the history of these people. pee tong BE pee a If my’ assumption . em ee {ayn Ot ssi een - “3 ae, Ye ix AR