Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...residence in Brattleboro, Vt., the couple staged a repeat performance last week: 7-lb. 11-oz. Shaun came into the world at 1:43 a.m. on Jan. 1, Vermont's first baby of '78. This unlikely event gave Stephanie an unusual birthday present and her parents some local celebrity...
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...
...still a united entity. At the same table, U.S. officials negotiate with the two dissident groups as if their separate-but-equal bargaining status were achieved. What all the Micronesians agree upon is that they want to remain associated with the U.S. but gain greater control over their own local governments. More independence, more discriminating federal subsidy, is long overdue in beautiful but troubled Micronesia. Given Jimmy Carter's determination, both may arrive soon...
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...
...asked for permission to raise eels and harvest seaweed around Saipan. A more grandiose scheme calls for coffee, rice and frogs to be raised on Tinian, just south of Saipan. Farther away, on Palau, Japanese investors plan to build a $325 million supertanker port if they get permission from local chiefs...