Appleworks 6 Documents to Pages on OS 10.7

I have a Mac Mini running OS 10.7.2, with an installed copy of Pages 09. From my previous Mac (OS 10.3) I have many word processing documents created on Appleworks 6. I should be able to open these documents using Pages, according to all the experts. How?
I can open the .cwk documents using Text Edit, but the process is messy and time-consuming. For the record, I have copies of Microsoft Word on both computers; Word X on the 10.3 machine, Word 2011 on the Mini.

...I have many word processing documents created on Appleworks 6. I should be able to open these documents using Pages, according to all the experts. How?...
I don't have a Appleworks file readily available, but IIRC, you should just be able to double-click the .CWK file.
Otherwise, run Pages.  From File menu, click Open.

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    <http://idisk.me.com/koenigyvan-Public?view=web>
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