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...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...
...Guam (pop. 100,000), a 209-sq.-mi. island 1,500 miles north of New Guinea, taken as a prize of the Spanish-American War. It has a nonvoting representative in Congress...
Farming, once a basic livelihood, has virtually disappeared from all the American-held islands. Indigenous private enterprise is almost nonexistent: there are no local entrepreneurs, for example, exploiting the lush timberlands of some of the Carolines. Unemployment runs at 13% in the trust territory, 9% on Guam, 15% on American Samoa...
...addition to controlling Kwajalein, Johnston, Midway and Wake islands, the military has reserved substantial acreage in Palau and the Marianas. The highest naval profile is on Guam, where two-thirds of the island-including the best beach, the only lake and the one patch of tillable soil-remains off limits to the population save for 8,800 U.S. servicemen and Pentagon civilian employees...
America's day begins on Guam at 6 a.m. when the large McDonald's (328 seats, parking for 105 cars) begins serving Egg McMuffins. By 9 o'clock the five-story Ben Franklin department store is vying for the local shopping dollar. TV sitcoms, complete with commercials, start at 10 a.m. Guam's main road, Marine Drive, is a snarled jam of rust-eviscerated autos, and buses packed with Japanese honey mooners...