[CPEO-MEF] FUDS, MUNITIONS: Northern Marianaa research

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

NMC gets 10K for WWII ordnance research

By Rianne Pangelinan-Brown
Saipan Tribune (CNMI)
April 16, 2008

NMC president Dr. Carmen Fernandez, center, and History instructor Sam 
McPhetres, right, accept a $10,000 donation from John Scott, owner and 
CEO of AMPRO. The donated funds will be used for field research dealing 
with unexploded ordnances from World War II. (Contributed Photo) The 
Northern Marianas College recently obtained a $10,000 donation from 
local firm All-Hazard Management Professionals, AMPRO, to extensively 
investigate and chronicle the effects of unexploded World War II 
ordnances in the CNMI.

According to NMC, the donated funds will enable the school to hire 
students who can undertake the field research necessary to identify and 
locate photographic evidence of persons injured or killed as a result of 
coming into contact with unexploded Ward War II munitions.

Students will also be involved in documenting oral histories from people 
who have either been victims of accidental detonations or inhalation of 
fumes from damaged projectiles.

The findings of all the studies will be used as a basis for a plan to 
remove World War II

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?newsID=78997&cat=1
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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