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Giuliani counters that restoring democracy to the union is precisely the Government's plan. But Ken Paff, national organizer for the reform group Teamsters for a Democratic Union, believes the answer isn't a trusteeship but an open, supervised election. "Our people will vote no if given the chance," he says...
...Teamsters are not likely to come under federal control until the 1990s, if then. The only precedent is a Teamster local in New Jersey with close ties to organized crime, which was placed under a federal trusteeship last year. That case took four years to resolve...
Most important, however, the two articles ignore the remarkable program made by the Marshallese toward self-government, progress which notably fulfills the US obligation under the trusteeship. The Marshallese have written a constitution and last fall carried out their secound national election. They are almost entirely self-governing. Their government negotiated and signed a compact of free association with the United States, which was opposed by 57 percent of the Marshallese voters in a UN-observed plebiscite last summer. This compact makes extensive provisions for nuclear damages, reserving $150 million for this purpose. The compact has been sent by President...
...Marshallese, however, the story became much more complicated. Despite obvious signs of nuclear fallout confirmed by the experience of the Japanese, the people of the Bikini atoll were not evacuated from the area. Afterwards the leaders of more than 10 atolls petitioned the United Nations Trusteeship Council requesting that...
...university scholarships, they have no voice in U.S. government. The Peace Corps also has several groups assigned to Micronesia. The result, says Giff Johnson, a U.S. journalist and activist is "an extension of American values through Micronesia a way to hide the conflicting strategic interests that go with the Trusteeship...