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...only one project has been judged worthy of nationwide promotion. As part of the 1977-78 pilot program that distributed $1.3 million in four Western states, Guam and the Pacific Islands trust territory, the DOE gave Stanley Mumma of Arizona State University $11,000 to develop a curriculum for teaching people to build solar hot-water systems for their homes. Using methods learned in the course, more than 1,500 residents of the Phoenix area have installed solar systems. The DOE will now spend $1 million to establish the same kind of workshop in every other state...
There was a young lady from Guam...
...subcommittee held extensive hearings on the subject before voting yesterday afternoon to table the issue. Delegate Antonio Won Pat (D-Guam) was the only panel member to vote for the measure...
...will be reduced to the lowest rates levied on imports from other U.S. trading partners. The Defense Department announced that the U.S. is now willing to sell China military equipment, including trucks, communications gear and early-warning radar, but no weapons. The Air Force flew several B-52s from Guam over Soviet ships in the Indian Ocean to demonstrate U.S. ability to project military power in the area. Said a Pentagon official: "If that message was lost on them, their hearing aids were turned...
True, the 1947 U.S.-Philippine agreement stipulated that the bases were to be rent free, but it also included an under standing of military assistance and protection for the Philippines, which was later gutted by the Nixon Doctrine (Guam, 1969). Is it any wonder, there fore, that the attitude of the Philippine government now is, "If you want to main tain bases here, pay rent for them...