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Father Walter Hadye Lini ( 1942- 1999) was an Anglican priest and the founding prime minister of Vanuatu. During the era when Vanuatu was a condominium ruled by the United Kingdom and France, Lini formed the Vanua'aku Party , which was principally backed by English-speakers. He became the colony's chief minister in 1979 and ascended to the position of prime minister upon Vanuatu's independence in 1980. His administration was very controversial in the West because of the ties it created with the Communist bloc, Libya, and other socialist countries viewed with disdain by the United States and EuropeFor the band of the same name, see Europe (band . Europe is a continent forming the westermost part of the Eurasian supercontinent. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Se. Lini was staunchly opposed to nuclearmushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945 lifted nuclear fallout some 60,000 feet (18 km) above the epicenter. A nuclear weapon is a weapon that derives its energy from nuclear reactions and has enormous destructive power a single n testing in the region and provided aid to third-world liberation movements such as the Kanak indigenous movement in New CaledoniaNew Caledonia ( French: Nouvelle-Caledonie is a territory of 18,575 kmē (7,172 sq. miles) made up of a main island and several smaller islands, in the southwest Pacific. Population in 2004 is in between 250,000 and 300,000 inhabitants. Name The name deriv. His term ended in 19911991 like 2002, is a palindromic year. It also has the same calendar as 2002, including Easter on March 31. It is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January January 2 Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first blac, due to factionalism within his party. His daughter, Hilda Lini and brother Ham LiniHam Lini is a politician of Vanuatu, who currently serves as Deputy Prime Minister of that country. He is the brother of Walter Lini, one of the founders of Vanuatu. Ham Lini is the leader of the National United Party, which in the July 2004 parliamentary are also politicians in Vanuatu.
Lini, Walter
Lini, Walter
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