Word: mariana
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...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...
Harvard entered more players in the Open and A divisions than did other collegiate rivals. Crimson racquetwomen Ingrid Boyum and Diana Edge played top-seeded national players in the open division, while Jenny Holleran, Lucy Miller and Mariana Chilton participated in Division...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Mariana Simionescu, 27, former Rumanian tennis star who gave up her career to be a tournament wife; and Bjŏrn Borg, 28, alltime tennis great (five Wimbledon championships, six French Open titles) who retired last year after international competition stopped being "fun"; by mutual consent after four years of marriage, no children; in Monte Carlo...
MEANWHILE, many of the islands are working toward free association, which would give them greater economic aid in exchange for, in some causes, specific military rights for the U.S. The Mariana Islands on Micronesia now have commonwealth status...
...year later, a group of islands previously under a League of Nations mandate to the Japanese-the Marshall Islands along with the Caroline and Mariana Islands [previously under a League of Nations Mandate to the Japanese] became a United Nations Trust Territory of the Pacific, administered by the U.S. Two obligations of the Charter required that...