Word: marianas
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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...
...Yale game, Eli Anne Keating broke a 7-7 deadlock with her fourth goal of the contest at 14:40 of the second half, and an insurance tally by Mariana Coleman iced the victory for Yale with two minutes to play...
...Chevy Chase, 33, who recently quit his job as Saturday Night funnyman to create TV specials for NBC, will marry in December. His bride-to-be: Actress-Model Jacqueline Carlin, 27, whom he met two years ago. Swedish Tennis Star Bjorn Borg, 20, has exchanged engagement rings with Mariana Simionescu, 19, Rumania's second-ranked woman tennis player until her defection to the U.S. this month. Tennis groupies, take heart. Mariana reports that she and this year's Wimbledon singles champ have not yet set a date for the wedding. Her guess? "Perhaps in two or three years...
...even more nagging question is whether or not the problems these women authors see themselves confronting--isolation, abandonment, the pain of love--are actually women's problems or human problems. One of the Marias argues that the reason they see Mariana as a sympathetic character is "not because she was a nun and a woman put behind bars, but because she was different," and any artist--male or female, has a "love of violating taboos...
...what about men? The Marias make a rather half-hearted attempt to present their side of the story, but all the male characters fall into the pattern of the callous and insensitive French cavalier with a monotonous sameness. There is one exception--a sympathetic cousin whom Mariana calls her "guardian angel"--but he proves to be an unstable character and, like her, commits suicide...