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...reaching proposal fraught with basic difficulty, but two concrete suggestions.... Proud of the fact that PC/Ecuador pioneered in the hiring of staff members who are citizens of the host country," these Volunteers propose: (1) a Peace Corps advisory council composed of Ecuadorians, (2) more Ecuadorians in responsible staff positions. Micronesia has had a National Advisory Council since the inception of its Peace Corps program in 1966. Proposals such as these, now widely circulated to other countries, must indeed be implemented; fortunately some of us remain with the Peace Corps to implement them...
Some ten miles south, on Tinian Island, where the Enola Gay took off with the A-bomb for Hiroshima and jungle encroaches on concrete roads named Broadway, Fifth Avenue and Lexington Avenue. Jones is clearing the bush for his largest investment in Micronesia's future, the BarK ranch. He leased 7,500 acres of Government land, almost one-third of the entire island, has already built 32 miles of fence and brought in 920 head of Black Angus-Hereford cattle from New Zealand. His goal is a herd of 8,000 head, plus hogs and chickens to supply...
Roller Skating. The missionaries, mainly Jesuit, are among the most effective Americans in Micronesia. "If you want to get 500 out of every dollar, let the government do it," says one U.S. trust-territory officer. "If you want to wring $1.10 out of every dollar, let the missionaries do it." Best known of the missionaries is Father Hugh F. Costigan, who runs the Jesuits' Ponape Agricultural and Trade School, training 160 Micronesians at a time in such basic skills as mechanics, construction and animal husbandry. Another hard-driving missionary is the Rev. Edmund Kalau, a Lutheran and onetime Luftwaffe...
...effective as the missionaries. Jones stayed on in the U.S. possession of Guam, amassed a $10 million fortune in supermarkets, department stores, motels, hotels, a construction company and ranching-and is increasingly spreading out into the nearby trust territories. Next week on Saipan he will open Micronesia's first modern hotel, the Royal Taga. Already booked for months in advance, the Taga is certain to bring tourists and money to Saipan; Jones is offering native Micronesians a cut in the profits through $10 shares of stock in the hotel. But his largest investment in Micronesia's future...
...Johnson's request, Congress shaped a resolution, now under consideration, that would grant the Micronesians a vote on their future by 1972. Few seem interested in complete independence from the U.S., but the debate leading up to such a vote might well have the beneficial effect of placing Micronesia a little higher on the list of U.S. priorities and increasing its share of U.S. aid and know-how. As World War II demonstrated, Micronesia, the Pacific's heartland, is far too important a part of the world to let fall by default into malevolent hands...