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...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...
Opposition to the 25-year-old law has grown over the last few years as groups such as the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA) and the New England Antivivisection Society have generated strong public support for the law's repeal, Mariana R. Burt, the MSPCA's director of ethical studies, said last week...
That's not my style." During his holiday, Borg unexpectedly found out how pleasant life was without tennis. Along with his wife of 2½ years, the former Rumanian tennis pro Mariana Simionescu, he lapsed into the most debilitating state of all, contentment. "We were able to go out together without thinking about training or a match the next day. It's a nice feeling...
...Oxford, he joined the Monitor in 1925 and was named editor in chief in 1964. Canham served in a variety of civic positions, but still found time to teach Christian Science Sunday school class. After retiring from the Monitor in 1974, he was named resident commissioner of the Northern Mariana Islands...
...argued that the proposed drilling threatened the coastline as well as the area's sea otters and other endangered species. More persuasively, they maintained that Washington did not have the authority to lease those areas without first considering the state's right of jurisdiction. U.S. District Judge Mariana Pfaelzer agreed and last July barred the sale...