Word: micronesian
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President Carter has taken a personal interest in the vast U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, which is made up of 2,141 Micronesian islands spread over an area as large as the U.S. itself. He has declared that the 115,000 people of the area, administered by Washington as a "strategic trust," should have the right of self-determination. Talks toward that end between U.S. officials and island representatives have been going on for six years, but now the full prestige of the Oval...
...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...
...saga of coastwatching has been swamped by the gross tonnage of war books launched in the past 30 years. Yet, as Lord describes it, vital Pacific island victories were won with the eyes and ears of clandestine observers: ex-planters, Micronesian guides, Australian mavericks, priests and nuns, who provided intelligence essential to understanding the enemy's battle plans...
...nation has more to lose or gain at Caracas than the U.S. It has the world's longest coastline (counting the Aleutian, Hawaiian and Micronesian archipelagoes), the mightiest Navy, the most extensive investment in offshore oil and mining. The rather liberal U.S. oceans policy was the product of a long, twisting tug of war between a number of personalities and interests...
Trust Territory, is the first native to have achieved this status. Alas, Mr. Coleman is a Polynesian, not a Micronesian, being from Samoa, which is about as far from Saipan as New York is from Paris. RISAN BUDA...