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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...
Rain of Bullets. Squad cars arrived within minutes, and within seconds thereafter became the targets of a well-coordinated ambush. Police, most of them equipped with only the standard .38 revolver, were outgunned. "It was worse than Saipan or Tinian!" exclaimed Detective Robert Bennett, a veteran of both. "They shot at us from every direction imaginable." Three policemen-two patrolmen and a lieutenant-were dead and another 14 wounded within 30 minutes. "We were sucked in," said Detective Gerald Viola. "They were just waiting for us." Three men tried, one by one, to rescue Sergeant Sam Levy, who had been...
...Thailand and Laos; another, Bira Air Transport, provides air-taxi service in Thailand. The newest of what Six refers to as Continental's Pacific "spines" is Air Micronesia, whose planes will fly a route linking Hawaii with such well-known islands of World War II as Guam, Kwajalein, Saipan, Truk and Okinawa...
Last week the Royal Taga, a 53-room luxury hotel on the neighboring island of Saipan, opened for business as part of Jones's gamble that tourists will discover the deserted white beaches of the Micronesian islands. "It won't throw Hawaii out of the picture," he admits, "but there are good beaches here, and there is good fishing." There is something else too: memories of bloody fighting during World War II. Significantly, the majority of tourists who have booked rooms at the Royal Taga for the next six months come from Japan. They will look...
Jones is planning to sell package tours to Saipan, including air fare, room and board, and sightseeing in his fleet of U-drive cars. He plans to add 50 rooms to the Royal Taga...