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Prosecutors further allege that the conspiracy included the president and an employee of the Commonwealth Adjustment Bureau, who pleaded guilty two weeks ago to defrauding National Grange. Both have agreed to testify...
America grew a little larger last week. The Northern Marianas, a group of Western Pacific islands (one of the best known: Tinian, where the Enola Gay took off for its atom-bomb run to Hiroshima in 1945), officially became a commonwealth of the U.S., and its 17,000 residents became U.S. citizens...
...residents of the United Nations' U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Mariana islanders were long envious of their neighbors and fellow Chamorros to the south on Guam, who have been U.S. citizens since 1950. Although the Marianas voted overwhelmingly for commonwealth status in 1975, it took the U.N. until last May to approve the change, which President Reagan proclaimed Nov. 3. Other former members of the U.S. Trust Territory -- the Palau group, the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia (Yap Island group, Kusaie, the Truk Islands and Ponape) -- opted for independence...
...polls closed yesterday, Massachussetts voter turnout inched up toward 50 percent--higher than the 38 percent Democratic Secretary of State Michael Connolly had predicted--but not high enough to keep Election Day '86 from being one of the least energetic in the commonwealth's history...
Shall the Commonwealth of Massachusetts urge the United States Congress to enact a national health program which: provides high quality, comprehensive, personal health care including preventive, curative and occupational health services; is universal in coverage, community controlled, rationally organized, equitably financed, with no out-of-pocket charges, is sensitive to the particular health needs of all, and is efficient in containing its cost; and whose yearly expenditure does not exceed the proportion of the Gross National Product spent on health care in the immediately preceding fiscal year...