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- [$] JAPAN RECLAIMS SAIPAN; THIS TIME TO MAKE MONEY
By the many thousands they step off the planes from Tokyo, two by two, one of the steadier processions of traveling couples since Noah's Ark. They are Japanese honeymooners, and the large numbers who flock every day to the northern tier of Micronesia provide evidence that Japan has regained economically some of the western Pacific islands that it lost militarily 40 years ago. Japan dominates here even though Saipan is part of a United States commonwealth these days. Much of the northern Mariana...
- House Approves Legislation On Self-Rule for Micronesia
The House of Representatives today passed by voice vote a compact that would give residents of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands control over their own affairs, except for defense. The legislation went to the Senate.
- [$] MICRONESIA PACT ENDS U.S. CONTROL
After nearly 16 years of complicated negotiations, Congress has approved legislation that would end Unites States' stewardship of the Micronesian islands in the Pacific Ocean. A so-called Compact of Free Association recognizes the islands' right to self-government, but at the same time retains vital United States defense interests in the area. President Reagan is expected to sign the compact into law this week, probably on Friday, at a ceremony attended by representatives of the Federated State...
- AROUND THE WORLD; U.S. Seeks to End Micronesia Trusteeship
The chief American delegate to the United Nations announced today in the Trusteeship Council that the United States wanted to end the 40-year American trusteeship over Micronesia and asked that the Council recognize the successful self-government of the Micronesian people. The official, Vernon A. Walters, referring to statements made this week by representatives of the Governments of Micronesia, which comprises 2,000 Pacific islands south of Japan, said, ''One message came through loud and clea...
- CHALLENGE TO PACIFIC ARCHEOLOGY
LEAD: An archaeologist studying Bikini Atoll as part of preparations for returning the atomic bomb test site to its displaced residents has found evidence humans may have inhabited eastern Micronesia thousands of years earlier than previously thought.
- Nobel Scientist Released
Dr Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Nobel Prize-winning scientist, is released after serving a year in Maryland prison for sexually abusing teen-age boy he brought home from research trip to Micronesia
- Saudi Elected by the U.N. Assembly
Helped by his country's victory in the Persian Gulf war, Saudi Arabia's United Nations representative, Samir Shihabi, surprised many today by easily winning election to the largely ceremonial post of President of the 46th General Assembly. More predictable on the Assembly's opening day were the votes formally admitting North and South Korea, the three newly independent Baltic republics, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia, raising United Nations membership to 166.
- Soviets Yield to U.S. on Pacific Islands' Status
In a postscript to the end of the cold war, the Soviet Union has allowed the United Nations Security Council to dissolve America's 43-year-old strategic trusteeship over a string of Pacific islands captured from Japan in the closing phases of World War II. For years the Soviet Union threatened to veto any formal bid to terminate American trusteeship over the Northern Marianas, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands. Moscow had contended that Washington was bullying the isla...
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In 1979 the Federated States of Micronesia, a UN Trust Territory under US administration, adopted a constitution. In 1986 independence was attained under a Compact of Free Association with the United States. Present concerns include large-scale unemployment, overfishing, and overdependence on US aid.
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AP - Parvati Shallow was the last woman standing on "Survivor: Micronesia — Fans vs. Favorites."
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