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Variations | 'This just in' (48 years ago) | Views

“EDUCATION on Saipan and probably elsewhere in Micronesia is in a desperate situation,” said a Marianas High School teacher who was originally from the states. In a letter to Variety’s

Variations | Fighting inside the Kon-Tiki-Room Bar and other news from 1972

FORTY-NINE years ago, the island’s newest newspaper, Marianas Variety, reported that the Marianas District Legislature would convene to establish the Marianas Future Status Commission. In 1972, the NMI was still part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands administered by the U.S., but was eager for a closer affiliation with America. As a Congress of Micronesia senator from the NMI would put it, “Our concern now is to become part of the United States with the opportunity to negotiate whatever is best for the people of the Marianas.” The TT consisted of six districts — the Marianas (the NMI), Palau, the Marshalls, Ponape (Pohnpei), Truk (Chuuk) and Yap — and its lawmaking body was the bicameral Congress of Micronesia. Each district, moreover, elected their local legislatures. In the NMI’s case, it also had mayors, municipal councils and village commissioners. The chief executive of the TT government was an American high commissioner, an appointee

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