Word: guam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most Americans, the South Sea islands far beyond Hawaii are no more than idyllic images. To Washington, they are an extraterritorial headache. The U.S. has responsibility for more than 2,200 of them, sweeping in a 4,000-mile arc from American Samoa to Guam, with a 2,000-mile lurch northward to include the naval battleground of Midway. Many were the sites of bitter, bloody victories in World War II: Saipan, Tinian, Kwajalein, Truk...
...Micronesian trust territory is made up of the Marshall, the Caroline and the Mariana islands, except for Guam (see map). Those islands were handed over to Japan by the League of Nations in 1919 and held until Japan's defeat in World War II. In 1947, the United Nations transferred them to U.S. stewardship under an agreement that will expire in 1981. Carter insists that a change of status be negotiated by then with the trust territory islands. His Administration is willing to consider a range of options, from free association with the U.S., to commonwealth status, to independence...
...women's movement also emerged from Houston with a greater network of sympathizers across the country. Said Nebraska State Legislator Shirley Marsh, a feminist delegate at large from a state where most others were more conservative: "I came home with hundreds of cards, names and addresses from Guam all the way to Maine." Of course, togetherness works both ways. Women who opposed the abortion, ERA and lesbian planks also brought their address books. The conference, said Winkie LeFils, first vice president of the National Council of Catholic Women, "strengthened my communication with other pro-family delegates. I'll be corresponding...
...want people who live for and will die for this work," says Tandy, who talks with a kind of cultivated Texas swagger. "If they don't want to do that, then beat it. Let them work for Sears." The system has produced managers such as C.L. Whitfield of the Guam Radio Shack, who journeyed to Japan to pick up new 40-channel CB radios so he could be the first to sell them on U.S. soil Jan. 1?which was still Dec. 31 on the mainland...
...will fill the second most powerful political office in the United States: the Speaker of the House. This process has sometimes produced gory battles. But last week, with the 292 Democrats who will sit in the next Congress eligible to vote (along with delegates from the District of Columbia, Guam and the Virgin Islands and the resident commissioner of Puerto Rico), there was literally no contest. Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill Jr. of Massachusetts, after four brilliantly successful years as majority leader, was unopposed...