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- Palau to Vote on U.S. Ties
The Trusteeship Council agreed today to send four observers to the Pacific island republic of Palau this month to monitor a plebiscite in which voters will consider a ''compact of free association'' with the United States. The accord would leave Palau independent, but give the United States responsibility for defense. The request for observers came from the United States Mission here.
- [$] Turmoil in Palau
Political and economic problems have troubled Palau for several years. Striking government workers in Palau demanding pay increases burned the President's office in Koror in 1982; he was absent at the time.
- AROUND THE WORLD; PALAU VOTERS APPROVE NEW ACCORD WITH U.S.
The residents of this Western Pacific island nation approved a new political and military relationship with the United States on Friday that calls for nearly $1 billion in American aid. The archipelago, 600 miles east of the Philippines, is a potential area for United States military installations.
- [$] PACIFIC ISLE BLOCKS NUCLEAR ACCORD WITH U.S.
A proposed compact that would have allowed the United States to bring in and store nuclear weapons in this Pacific island state was overturned today by a special tribunal here. Palau's Constitution prohibits the introduction of nuclear weapons. A special Palau appeals court said the Compact of Free Association had not been properly approved by the voters.
- Palau Chooses Link With U.S.
LEAD: The people of Palau have approved new links with the United States, ending the Pacific island group's status as the world's last United Nations trust territory.
- Palau Balking at U.S. Compact
LEAD: A new political agreement with the United States appeared today to be falling short of approval in a referendum, and the Government of this Pacific nation said it was laying off two-thirds of its employees as a result.
- Keep Bolton at the U.N.
Letter from Stuart Beck, Palau representative to United Nations, disagrees with July 30 editorial calling for replacement of John R Bolton as US ambassador to UN
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After three decades as part of the UN Trust Territory of the Pacific under US administration, this western most cluster of the Caroline Islands opted for independent status in 1978 rather than join the Federated States of Micronesia. A Compact of Free Association with the US was approved in 1986, but not ratified until 1993. It entered into force the following year when the islands gained their independence.
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For Stuart J. Beck becoming an ambassador was not the problem it can be for Americans with diplomatic ambitions.
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