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...third contractor in the Cabinet, Walter Hickel (Interior), put his private holdings, worth an estimated $14 million, into trusteeship after being elected Governor of Alaska in 1966. Even if Cabinet salaries are not increased, Hickel stands to get a raise; the Governor of Alaska receives $27,500. But he must give up his free mansion in Juneau. Michigan pays its Governor $40,000, so George Romney (Housing and Urban Development) will be taking a $5,000 cut. Romney's personal holdings are estimated at $1,500,000, and have been in trust since he left American Motors to enter...
Miss Angie E. Brooks, assistant secretary of state of Liberia and president of the Trusteeship Council of the U.N., will speak on "Africa and the World" at 8 p.m. tonight in the George Sherman Union, Boston University...
...Bikini's habitability, although a 1964 University of Washington study found that the atoll has made a remarkable recovery. The Interior Department, which runs the Micronesia Trust Territory for the U.S., may make a decision by the end of summer, perhaps earlier, under pressure from the United Nations Trusteeship Council, which is reviewing U.S. stewardship of the Pacific islands. The U.N. was prodded by a Peace Corpsman's moving plea that urged: "If Bikini is free of radiation and is fit for human habitation, please call on the United States to return these people to their homes...
Roger Fisher, professor of Law, argued the case for Anguilla before the trusteeship committee of the U.N. General Assembly Friday night...
...result is almost pure Utopia. Nauruans enjoy free schools, medical and dental care, electricity and water, pay minimal rents and no import duties or taxes. Under an agreement announced last week by Australia to the U.N. Trusteeship Council, Nauruans will be given partial control of the mining industry July 1; after they finish paying for it in three years, they will get complete control. Under the complex new arrangements, most of the profits from the phosphate diggings will be held in trust and reinvested. Conservative estimates are that 30 years from now, when the phosphate deposits have finally...