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In the career of the Pacific to Usher in Millennium, a jog line Dateline

In the career of the Pacific to Usher in Millennium, a jog line date - New York TimesHome PaperVideoMost PopularTimes TopicsMost RecentHelpRegister NowLogin of the PageToday global search of all tips collections Millennium algorithm in Pacific career to Usher in Millennium, a line Dateline JogBy Nicholas D. KRISTOF
Published: 23 March, single-page print 1997 log on for e-mail

TARAWA, Kiribati:Miles and miles of nothing in the Pacific, this small island nation is a place of drowsiness where fishermen barefoot run is on coral reefs in canoes stabilizer.

Almost nobody visits Kiribati and thirsty aliens and local residents are turning dreams of the next port, country, ship recently stayed without beer.

However, while initially the Kiribati may appear backwards, in a way is ahead of all other countries in the world - hours ahead. Due to a bit of fiddling with the international date line, each new day apparently now begins in Kiribati.

This means that Kiribati tiny, presumably to send beer then rather than hold the party at the beginning of all parts, the first celebration of the new year January 1, 2000. Kiribati, which few people have heard of, and still less can pronounce, insists that has become the international line date so that it will be the first country to announce to the world in the next millennium.

"We are working hard to make this a remarkable event," said President Teburoro Tito, transmit. "We want the world to see Kiribati. We want to put on the map of Kiribati. "

However while Kiribati (pronounced KIH-rih-bahss) insists that it will be the first country to reach midnight on December 31, 1999, as well as the first to see the following output from the Sun, rivals are crying foul. Other countries New Zealand to Fiji, Tonga say Millennium party must be yours.

Each claimant sits near 180 degrees longitude line and the line date zigs zags of bookmarks. Everyone expected that thousands of people will decline on its shores to welcome the new millennium, initiating a boom in tourism that will lead to the local economy well into the next century. Pacific Island Nations have few other than tourism, economic opportunities it's a joust which determine its prosperity for decades to come.

"Tonga is going to make this a great celebration," said Simote Poulivaati, Secretary of the Association of tourism of Tonga. "We believe that this will be the beginning and Tonga will go from hence and tourism will be much larger".

The dispute arose because Kiribati President Tito had fulfilled a campaign promise to two years to move the date far eastward, away from the line of 180 degrees, line by passing around of Kiribati. Until then, the line short date in the country, so "today" doesn't mean the same part of Kiribati to the next.

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A cardinal of Tonga travel to Tampa

"Probably a large, fatty pork," says Lutui, leaning back and laughing so hard that shook her belly.
In the native Tonga Lutui family, playing rugby instead of football, live in a monarchy instead of a democracy and see Monday instead of Sunday's Super Bowl.
It - Tonga Tampa with stops in Arizona and California Lutui became a guard with the massive girth and a matching sense of humor who plays a mark resolutely Tonga football Cardinals.
"" I will say this about Polynesian children in general: they love football, "said Pat Ruel, coach Lutui position in Southern California."Because in their culture, there has always been this Warrior mentality. Not so much that intensity of him. "But almost a playful Warrior mentality."
Lutui, playful Guerrero the Cardinals, described as a small island - Tonga Kingdom is actually an archipelago of 171 Islands, 48 of them inhabited, as a country on the international date, the first to receive the new day, as a place full of humble and passionate people foremost family lovers.
Lutui is their elderly as copyright and considered that her parents the King and Queen of the home. Asked if that made a Prince, laughed again, and joked that Prince Baby Huey may fit better.
"People are less fortunate there," he said. "Live out of the land and his family and his love for God.
Lutui family emigrated from Tonga to Mesa, Arizona. when it was months old. Joined the Church of Jesus Christ of the Saints at the table, where his parents go on Sunday to pray for his "great child," says Lutui local.
Due to their religious obligations, the family could not travel to Tampa for Super Bowl. But that has not prevented Lutui sharing stories of Tonga with reporters and their teammates.
"Deuce is proud of its roots, and there is no secret that," his teammate said Reggie Wells.
Perhaps Lutui could not be here, or you had not gone the Giants U.S.C. Ruel, realized Lutui weighed more than 385 pounds and spoke the personal trainer of recovered it. Instead, Ruel stated Lutui he needs to lose at least 40 pounds and then moved to him of tackle to protect themselves.
Lutui met with a nutritionist and spent extra time in the room of weight and sure it enough weight melted away. In the middle of his senior season, Lutui was projected as a fourth or fifth-round draft pick. In the end, scouts projected that it would be taken in the first two rounds.
It was almost like he was released, said Ruel. "These 40 pounds him became a new man." It could function as a deer. "Had never seen a big man so moved."
Cardinals selected him in the second round in 2006 and is Lutui, not its most celebrated his teammate U.S.C., quarterback Matt Leinart, who will begin the Cardinals in the Super Bowl.
This was not surprised Ruel. Viewed Lutui as talent first round, a player with a "special make-up," said the kind of man that smile have a defensive tackle Oregon would make him his "Samoa slave".
The type of guard laughed when carried the defenders of the sudden changes in him, which he sang struggle in practice, who never showed a trace of anger. Months after the Cardinals drafted him, Lutui called during Ruel once per week to thank him.
"I lost the boy when he left and never really left of missing", said Ruel. "I never around of a boy enjoys football as much as do you."
A veteran fan of Cardinals, Lutui still has the ticket stub from the first game that attended, in 1990, when he sat in the stands of metals at Sun Devil Stadium. Said that you a time joined his fellow fans of Cardinals, in using soda cans in Deion Sanders, an opposite cornerback.
Tonga to the table, from Los Angeles and back to Phoenix, Lutui never lost his laugh.
By virtue of the Cardinals, offensive line coach Russ Grimm Lutui helped turn one of the worst offensive lines in football in a more consistent unit. And now, a native of Tonga become fan of Cardinals, is the largest of all game play for the team he roots for.
"Super Bowl and Arizona Cardinals are in the same sentence," he said. "You would think that do not go together, but, hey, is ' Ripley Believe It or not!'" We are here. "Here to stay".
Someone asked Lutui would Tonga gentleman you if the Cardinals won.
"What worries me, since it is a King," said Ruel.
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Warning tsunami causes, but not Quake damage

Two weeks before a scheduled around in the basin of the Pacific, an earthquake of magnitude 7.9 yesterday to Tonga Islands tsunami early warning system test provided a more urgent test, unscheduled, briefly, causing fears of New Zealand tsunami to Hawaii.

Skip to next paragraph a magnitude 7.9 earthquake was briefly raised Tonga tsunami fears. A series of four hours television and interactive web site for The Times, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Germany.nytimes.com/chinarises ? network ZDF

Indicators of tides recorded a tsunami as result of the earthquake, but the height of the peak to depression was only about 17 inches, not large enough to cause damage. No deaths were reported by the earthquake.

The earthquake occurred around 100 miles northeast of Nuku'alofa, travel agencies, one of the islands of Tonga, at 4: 26 am, local time. The geological service of United States initially estimated magnitude 8.0, large enough to be considered as "large", but only to the extent which could generate a tsunami dangerous threshold.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Hawaii Pacific Tsunami Prevention Centre issued a warning 17 minutes after the earthquake in the Pacific coastal areas. An hour later, the Centre downgraded the warning for only an hour afterwards and region within 600 miles from the epicenter, cancelled the alert.

Earthquake occurred along the border where the India-australiano tectonic plate meets the Pacific plate. It was near of 34 miles below the surface and not much deform the ocean floor. The deformation of the ocean bottom, moving large amounts of water, is the direct cause of tsunamis.

"This really was the perfect event," said Gerard Fryer, a geophysicist at the Centre of tsunami warning. "It was in an area that was populated, and there was a tide of 300 miles from where we could see it, and we could leave a warning in time."

He added that, "Fortunately, isn't necessary."

There are still problems in the system. Tonga, for example, did not receive the warning, due to a power failure.

On May 16, as part of a drill organized by Unesco, warning center starts the exercise using a mock tsunami alert. This would allow authorities in different countries to measure how long it takes to disperse the warning to emergency personnel.

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PLUS: RUGBY - WORLD CUP; Four countries Win

PLUS: RUGBY - WORLD CUP; Four countries Win - New York TimesHome PageToday PaperVideoMost PopularTimes TopicsMost RecentHelpRegister NowLogin all tips file search collections World Cup algorithm PLUS: RUGBY - WORLD CUP; Four countries WinPublished: on 11 October 1999, Sign In to e-mail printing

Australia scored a victory on Ireland 23-3 and South Africa was a winner of 47-3 on Spain World Cup played in England yesterday. Tonga defeated Italy, 28-25, with the last kick of the match, and Argentina scored a win 32-16 over Samoa.

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Originates the call of the South Pacific tsunami

APIA, Samoa (Agence France-Presse): The number of deaths confirmed since the devastating tsunami that crashed in the Islands Samoa and Tonga has increased to 164, with at least 16 people are still missing, Government of Samoa, officials said Friday.

There were 123 killed in Samoa, American Samoa 32 and 9 on a nearby island in Tonga.

An undersea earthquake of magnitude 8.0 which struck just before 7 a.m. Tuesday prompted the tsunami survivors said waves as high as 30 feet.

Vaosa Epa, a spokesperson for the Government of Samoa, said that doctors in the main hospital in Apia had been addressed to more than 300 people for injuries and almost 50 had been commissioned by Friday.

Togiola Tulafono, the Governor of American Samoa, said the majority of search operations and rescue was stopped and was to stabilize the situation, according to an official American aid who spoke with the Governor.

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All the Money Is Gone in Tonga, and the role of the jester Was No Joke

All the Money Is Gone in Tonga, and the role of the jester Was No Joke - New York TimesHome PaperVideoMost PopularTimes TopicsMost RecentHelpRegister NowLogin of the PageToday global search of all tips collections algorithm passports The Money Is All Gone in Tonga, and the role of the jester Was No JokePublished: Sign In to e-mail printing on October 07, 2001

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, octubre: 6The Kingdom of Tonga has admitted to the loss of millions of dollars that did sell passports to Asians after an American who King named as his "Jester" invested money in a mysterious company who later disappeared.

Last week, two Cabinet Ministers have been forced to leave on the scandal, as the new Prime Minister, Clive Edwards, granted that 26 million dollars, held by the Trust Fund of Tonga in an account of Bank of America, had lost.

The money was taken out of the Bank in June 1999 and put in the Nevada Millennium asset management.

Became the moment said, an employee of Bank of America, Jesse Bogdonoff in trust funds to advise official, just after the King Taufaahau Tupou IV issued a Royal Decree that him declaring the court jester.

Fund owes its origins in the late 1980s, when George Chen, Hong Kong businessman won the Royal approval to sell Tonga citizenship and passports mainly to Asians, with a particular eye on Hong Kong China, who were worried about its handover to China.

Mr. Chen put money into a current account in Bank of America once the King refused to keep it in Tonga, saying that the Government could spend only on roads.

At the moment, Mr. Bogdonoff worked at the Bank, and by his own account in a newsletter of the company, "he stumbled on millions of dollars invested inexplicably in a checking account." He persuaded the King to allow you to invest money.

Millennium was established on March 25, 1999, and Fund was transferred it on 21 June. However, the Government statement concluded that Millennium no longer exists and that 26 million dollars, plus an additional amount of $ 11 million are estimated to accrued interest, had disappeared.

"Some common questions that are asked by the public in general in Tonga today are: why the trustee deposit much of our foreign reserves in these suspicious companies?", said the Government.

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In the Court of the King of Tonga

In the Court of the King of Tonga - New York TimesHome PageToday PaperVideoMost PopularTimes TopicsMost RecentHelpRegister NowLogin all tips magazine search COLLECTIONSIn TongaBy Paul Theroux King; Court
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"What you are doing in TONGA?"asked an official tips at large in a blue skirt with a hem square below his thick knees. We were standing in a barn wood at the airport of Fua' fua?amotu on the island of Tongatapu.
"Just looking around," I said. "A small row."
I want to see the King, I almost said. I wanted to go to the North of the archipelago, named Argentina and camp on a desert island. But what I wanted to do in this island was complying with his Majesty King Taufa'ahau ' ahau Tupou IV, the King of Tonga.
Tongan friend of a friend, Afu Veikune, I met at the airport. Had told me Afu and her husband, Salesi and friend to Ms. Vahu might be able to help. As many of the Tongans, Afu had spent some years as an officer of the House for a family in Honolulu. Salesi has been a driver of courtesy - van rental from budget. Ms. Vahu had worked for the budget in San Francisco. Now were all in Tonga. Domestic employees and drivers might have been in America, but in Tonga were thing - they had real connections.

AFU had been the maid of honor at the famous and Salote Queen of Tonga, mother of the current King of highly appreciated. AFU father was a tui, a boss and a landowner. Son of afu Salesi had married a real Prime and the King had come to the wedding. They were closely familiar with Princes and princesses. Often, the current Queen visited her home.
"You may speak with Mr. Mo'ungaloa," said Afu.
"Who is Mr. Mo'ungaloa?"
"Secretary of the King".
We were travelling 15 miles an hour. The road from the airport to Nuku'alofa, travel agencies ("abode of Love"), the capital, was riddled with potholes. All roads were terrible; the buildings were grim, too. Tongatapu Islanders personally were ordered and ordered but lived in a State of continuous disorder.
Nuku'alofa, travel agencies did not have any visible industry. Seemed dusty and down at heel. Even its singular building, the Royal Palace resembles nothing so much as a rural Christian Church, wood and white with a bulky belfry. In fact, Christianity came into full flower in Tonga with the approval of the monarchy.
Anything local manufacturing was for sale in Nuku'alofa, travel agencies except postage stamps. What money had came from Tongans remittances in Melanesia (my personal neologism New Zealand and Australia) - New Zealand in particular - and America, mainly in Hawaii, where worked as gardeners, car washers and tree trimmers Tongans.?
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U.S. Detains 79 Tongans

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Cyclone tracks links to capital of Tonga

NUKU' NUKUALOFA, Tonga (AP) - Cyclone René, a powerful storm, given in the North and centre of Tonga Monday, ripping out of roofs, tear down trees and power lines and communications of the Court with Nuku'alofa, the capital located in the South of the country, travel agencies.

Mali' or Takai, Deputy director of the national Office of disaster in Tonga, a group of South Pacific Islands, said that the extent of the damage was not clear.

It was lost shortly after midnight the northern part of Tonga as cyclone contact René shaken low-lying atolls, topple trees, cut roads and causing coastal flooding as crossing seas increased land.

The cyclone was producing heavy rains and resulted in the reduction of power in the capital. Tonga has a population of approximately 101,000 people.

Previously the Office warned that the cyclone could "increase in strength of very destructive hurricane".

Storm lost both of American Samoa and the neighboring nation of Samoa island on Saturday, but always caused heavy rains, winds, and heavy sea swells.

American Samoa, Samoa were physically assaulted by a tsunami that killed 226 people last year.

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Polynesian Pipeline Feeds to Football Titan

Brian Harkin to The New York TimesTrinity High of Angelica, TeX, the nation's most prestigious preparation team has 16 players of Tonga descent.

EULESS, TeX - announcers of public address in games for discharge from Trinidad, most prestigious prep football team, sometimes without realizing nation account names players spin in which Pacific Islander considered as swear words. Any other in this State, the land of "Friday Night Lights", where high school games can draw tens of thousands of fans, these mispronunciations not be a problem. But Trojans Trinidad barely fit the familiar image of the Texas gridiron.

Skip to next paragraph Brian Harkin to the New York TimesFrom left, Setefano Maile, Sioeli Pauni, Elikena Fieilo (squatting), Vaimaali Sapoi and l. T. Tuipulotu are starters for discharge from Trinidad.

A pipeline from the Kingdom of Tonga, Pacific has delivered a Polynesian influence to churches of this city, markets and which won State titles in 2005 and 2007 among the largest in Texas schools Football Championship. Descent Tonga players brought about imposing size, strength and resistance to Trojans and the need for a list of phonetic spelling for advertisers.

"That would leave cursing it", says Ofa Faiva-Siale, Manager of projects for Angelica parks and Community Services Department.

Students at Trinity 53 languages spoken, and 31 Nations flags hung at the entrance of the school. The proximity of Euless of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, which lies partly within the limits of the city, has provided a remarkable diversity this 54,000 people.

Thirteen of 24 players of Trinidad, which made all-state since the Decade of 1980 and 16 members of the current list, are of Tonga descent.

"When you think of Texas high school football, think of the country, farm children; children" don't expect to see players from the South Pacific, said Sioeli Pauni, who has two children on Trinidad team."

The parents of many players work in Dallas-Fort Worth Airport as baggage handlers and food service employees facilitate affordable travel special family occasions. Others are self-employed as masons, carpenters, and landscapers. Meanwhile, his sons are decisive linemen and linebackers, weighing between 200 to 333 pounds and are a good similar physical effort for the national sport of Tongan rugby football.

Each time you touch a defensive lineman at his back, Uatakini Cocker, 2 6 foot, 297-pound offensive tackle, shouting: "mate ma' Tonga," which means "You die to Tonga". Later, the playful Cocker said, he often has to explain their heritage to oppose players and fans in this typical postgame conversation:

"Are you Mexican?"

"Polynesia".

"Samoa?"

"Tonga".

"O.K., because it would be a very large Mexican."

The presence of 3,000 to 4,000 Tongans here has provided an unmistakable touch of Polynesia Euless and height of Trinidad. The Hawaiian market Announces kava root used for a traditional drink. A non-profit organization called voice of Tonga addresses concerns about immigration, culture, language and health and emits a program, including Trinidad stresses soccer, local cable TV.

Free of Tonga, the First United Methodist Church Tongan Church and the first Church Assembly Dios Tonga: three of nine affiliated churches Tongan zone: sit in or near South Main Street. A Catholic chaplain who is Tongan, visit several times a year from San Francisco, but must work to their schedule around the season of football, said Faiva-Siale.

"I call and say: 'Don' t come this weekend;" We are in the playoffs. Display only two or three people,' "Said Faiva-Siale."

Half of Trinidad 2.189 in grades 10 to 12 students are colour white, with a roughly equal of black and Hispanic and approximately 275 Asian and Pacific Islander mixture. This year's football team is represented by at least eight Nations, Laos to Rwanda. Nine of the 22 starters are Tongans.

"Makes you a better person, learn to accept different people," said Dontrayevous Robinson, star running back for the Trinity, who is African-American.

Trinity has a club of Polynesia, and Polynesian students often chorus of membership and participation in the arts. Often, they are elected homecoming King and Queen, said coaches. Music ukulele around on the schoolyard to 12.00 hours and between classes. Occasionally, someone takes a traditional lava-lava sarong. Before and after each football match, players Tongans have a ceremonial computer war called a haka dance.

Around 10 Polynesian players Trinidad (5-0) now are playing college football.

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WATCH NEWS; Tonga Is Set to go online stake their claims in the Millennium

WATCH NEWS; Tonga Is Set to go online stake their claims in the Millennium - New York TimesHome PageToday PaperVideoMost PopularTimes TopicsMost RecentHelpRegister NowLogin all of the search technology tips collections algorithm TONGAN news WATCH; Tonga Is Set to go online risk his Millennium ClaimsBy IAN AUSTEN
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While there is a debate about what piece of inhabited land, it will be the first to greet the new millennium, the Pacific Islands that make up the Kingdom of Tonga seem to have a reasonable claim the honour. On the stroke of midnight in Tonga on the eve of new year continue to 5 a.m. Eastern time.

To mark the occasion, based in San Francisco Forthenews.com offer webcasts live the Tonga Millennium celebrations. "Do not have a television broadcast station in Tonga, but do very sophisticated things with the Internet," said Alan Schulman, President of Forthenews.com. "Tonga has been virtually ignored by all committees of Millennium."

At the stroke of midnight, hour of Tonga, said Dr. Shulman, the Real Video feed to your company site www.forthenews.com, show King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV praying ahead of a chorus of 10,000 Tongans. Another part of the site will feature a series of age-old firsts from the living room but created first inside real school of Sciences of Tonga. Among the planned features are the first cup of coffee, the first kiss, first profit and loss statement. Dr. Shulman auction rights to conduct some of them. "Some duffer will love the first swing Golf", said Dr. Shulman. "Will be the climax of his life."

Finally, the site also trained at one of its rooms in a team of personnel, as a company announcement highlights, show the world "reality of Y2K, at least in Tonga problems." IAN AUSTEN

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