Word: nauru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Next Jan. 31, if all goes according to schedule, a tiny, null palm-fringed speck in the Pacific, some 1,700 miles northeast of Australia, will become the world's newest nation. The Republic of Nauru, administered by Australia as a U.N. trust territory since 1947, will have a native population of 3,000, smallest of any nation state. But what Nauruans lack in numbers they make up with money. They have per capita income of about $4,000, compared with...
Fully two-thirds of Nauru contains deep deposits of phosphates that are used for fertilizers. These are being dug up and exported at the rate of 1,500,000 tons a year by the British Phosphate Commission, run jointly by Britain, Australia and New Zealand. In return, the commission has installed many facilities on the island and pays the natives a royalty that has just been raised to $15,400,000 a year...
...major worry: since 1900, more than 38 million tons of their atoll have been scooped up and shipped out, leaving only barren, gaping holes. The natives fear that they may soon have little territory left on which to enjoy their wealth. The most probable solution is that filthy rich Nauru will import dirt to replace the phosphates...
...Chief deRoburt de parted for Manhattan last week to report to the U.N. Trusteeship Council, Australian Territories Minister Charles Barnes conceded cautiously that as a first step toward sovereignty for the island, his government will draft a Nauruan constitution; next January the first Nauruan Parliament will convene. If Nauru proves ready for self-government, Barnes says elliptically, "Further discussions will take place regarding the possibility of further political progress." In other words, it is only a matter of time before Nauruans will be independent-provided the Australian government can find them another island to be independent...
...rate, they will leave in style. Last week Nauru's elected chieftain, Hammer deRoburt, finished hammering out a contract with its principal phosphate customers-Australia, New Zealand, Britain-that will assure the island's 500 families a kitty of $225 million by the time the phosphate runs out. Under the agreement, deRoburt, 42, more than trebled his people's royalties (to $1.50 a ton, retroactive to July 1, 1964) and extracted yet another price boost (to $1.97), effective next year. The Australian government, which administers the island as a U.N. trust territory, will hold most...