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- 1 2 3 4 "OIA Welcome President Toribion and Recognizes Fifty Years of Service by Haruo Willter". Office of Insular Affairs. Retrieved 13 March 2009.
- ↑ Staff, Island Times (29 January 2019). "Seven surviving framers of Palau's constitution meet to commemorate 40th anniversary of drafting constitution". Island Times.
- ↑ Shuster, Donald. "Islands of Change in Palau: Church, School, and Elected Government 1891-1981". University of Hawaii Library.
- 1 2 Shuster, Donald. "ELECTIONS, COMPACT, AND ASSASSINATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF PALAU". University of Guam.