Word: micronesia
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...held in New Orleans' Superdome, which Senior Writer Michael Demarest visited for his accompanying piece on the controversial indoor sports arena. For Demarest, going to Louisiana was a kind of homecoming: his family has lived in New Orleans for three centuries. ∙ Before writing his impressions of Micronesia for NATION, Hong Kong Correspondent David DeVoss made a 17,500-mile, 17-day odyssey through America's vast aqueous empire. He had first visited the Pacific during the early '70s while commuting to two brief tours in Viet Nam and remembered the islands as "a frontier where tedium...
...Marshall Islands, attended the wedding of a high chiefs daughter in Pago Pago, and talked about Somerset Maugham's legacy with former Samoan Governor H. Rex Lee as rain beat against the roof of the veranda. "Ego gratification and upward mobility, America's gifts to Micronesia, have changed the Pacific of Maugham and Robert Louis Stevenson," says DeVoss. "A $500,000 bridge is planned to link two outer Samoan islands I once swam between four years ago. Still, no change can dull the macaroon scent of drying copra or the taste of raw tuna...
Carter's interest stands in contrast to U.S. attitudes during most of the 31 years of American trusteeship. From 1947 to 1960, the U.S. neglected Micronesia almost entirely. Then, stung by a strongly critical U.N. report, Washington began pouring in money, mostly for education and social welfare. To date, the U.S. has invested more than $250 million in the islands, spawning a huge bureaucracy...
...goes to, among other places, an academic high school that does not teach enough skills useful on the island. Of its 600 graduates a year, 400 leave the island to find jobs. As a result, more American Samoans live in Honolulu and Los Angeles than in the South Pacific. Micronesia's annual suicide rate is 20 per 100,000 people, nearly double that...
...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...