Trust Territory Of The Pacific Islands - Printable Text Version Administrative headquarters, originally in Honolulu, moved to guam, 1989 AcrossAll Micronesia Records of the us Trust territory of the Pacific Islands http://libweb.hawaii.edu/digicoll/ttp/ttpi_text.html
Extractions: Archive Collection Download the PDF version [ 20k ] Scattered across a vast expanse of water as wide as the continental United States are over twenty-one hundred islands that make up the cultural region known as Micronesia. The area includes three major archipelagoes: the Marshalls, Carolines, and Marianas. (Culturally, Micronesia includes Kiribati and Nauru, but the separate political history of these countries excludes them from the archives discussed here.) Having passed through colonial rule by the Spanish, Germans, and Japanese, the islands of Micronesia became a United States administered United Nations strategic trusteeship following World War II. This new arrangement was named the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI). Initially under Navy control, the islands were transferred to the U.S. Dept. of the Interior in 1951. Administrative headquarters, originally in Honolulu, moved to Guam, and finally to Saipan. For administrative purpose, the TTPI divided the islands of Micronesia into six districts based on earlier colonial precedent: the Marshalls, Ponape, Truk, Marianas, Yap, and Palau, with the later addition of Kosrae. Beginning in the 1970s the districts began voting to end the trustee relationship with the U.S. In 1986 the US notified the UN that its obligations were fulfilled. The UN officially dissolved the Trust Territory in 1990. Palau, the last of the Trust Territory districts, voted to end its trustee status in 1994.
Guam Repeals Helmet Law For Adults us territory Of guam Repeals Helmet Law For Adult Motorcyclists guam is a usterritory, where as they say there, guam where America s day begins. http://www.bikersrights.com/world/guam.html
Extractions: U.S. Territory Of Guam Repeals Helmet Law For Adult Motorcyclists GUAM. Tom Matanane, president of the Guam HAWGS Motorcycle Club, reported to the MRF that on March 16,1997, Guam's Governor Carl T.C. Gutierrez signed into law Bill #7, which gives motorcyclists 18 years of age and older the right to decide for themselves whether or not to wear a helmet. The law went into effect at midnight, so on March 17, 1997, motorcyclists in Guam were able to legally ride without a helmet. Guam is a U.S. territory, where as they say there, "Guam where America's day begins." The sponsor of Bill #7, Senator Elizabeth Barret-Anderson, was extremely successful in moving the legislation through the Guam Senate. Bill #7 passed the Guam Senate unanimously on a 21 to zero vote. Guam has a unicameral legislature, so once the legislation passed the Senate it was sent on to Governor Gutierrez for his signature. "The Guam Hawgs should take great pride and be commended for bringing freedom of choice to American motorcyclists," stated Wayne Curtin, MRF vice president of government relations. Curtin continued by saying, "This is the second time in a week that legislation repealing helmet laws for adults has been enacted in a state or territory of the United States. This shows that with continued perseverance motorcyclists in every state and territory of the United States have the ability to convince legislators and governors that freedom of choice for motorcyclists is the best public policy."
Statistics French territory since 1946, with a new autonomy status since 1984. guam,Unincorporated us territory, 1565, Spain American Possession 1898 WW2 Japan http://www.abc.net.au/ra/carvingout/maps/statistics.htm
Worldwide Newswatch AFP News Stories Listed By Country, With The The study says the us Pacific territory of guam should be developed into a majorhub from which the us Air Force and Navy could project power into the South http://taiwansecurity.org/AP/2001/AP-051501.htm
Extractions: Home Taiwan PRC Cross-Strait ... Archives Study: Shift Defense Focus to Taiwan Associated Press, May 15, 2001 WASHINGTON The United States should expand its military presence on the Pacific island of Guam and consider asking Japan for permission to use its southernmost Ryukyu islands as a staging base in defense of Taiwan, a Pentagon-sponsored study says. The study by the Rand think tank says U.S. military strategy in Asia, which for decades has focused on Japan and North Korea, should be shifted south to better prepare for potential conflict over Taiwan. The study says the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam should be developed into a major hub from which the U.S. Air Force and Navy could project power into the South China Sea and elsewhere in Southeast Asia. The lead author of the Rand study is Zalmay Khalilzad, who headed the Bush administration's transition team at the Pentagon before joining the White House staff on Monday as a senior director at the National Security Council. Rand is a research organization that studies a wide range of public policy issues; the Asia security study was done by a Rand division financed by the Air Force. The Bush administration is in the midst of reviewing its Asia security strategy. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is expected to conclude that the rising military power of China and India, combined with the decline of Russia and the prospect of reconciliation between North and South Korea, requires the United States to make Asia a higher priority in military planning and security alliances.
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Extractions: Guam EPA explains the landfill site selection process and the validity of previous site assessments under the Ordot Consent Decree; sites named in PL 23-95 did not undergo comprehensive evaluation The Guam Environmental Protection Agency (Guam EPA) today responded to claims contained in Bill 240 that previous landfill siting processes were carried out in a comprehensive, objective, and valid manner. Despite the naming of two potential landfill sites in Public Law 23-95, no comprehensive environmental assessment process that meets the requirements of federal law and the Ordot Consent Decree has been undertaken for the previously identified sites, and no time or cost savings would result at this time from legislatively naming any location as the site for Guam's new municipal solid waste landfill facility. "Public Law 23-95 was passed without a comprehensive study that meets today's rigorous evaluation and assessment guidelines to thoroughly evaluate the suitability of the sites named in the law," said Guam EPA Administrator Fred M. Castro. "The Government of Guam [DPW and Guam EPA] thoroughly evaluated the previous landfill siting process, identified significant shortcomings with that effort, and then prepared a comprehensive process that meets federal requirements within the context of the Consent Decree with the approval of U.S. EPA and the U.S. Department of Justice," he added.
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Extractions: Recent Additions Contact Us Print Version Search: EPA Home Water Beaches Clean Beaches Plan ... About PDF Files Fact Sheet; November 2004 We are taking an important step forward in fulfilling the Administration's commitment to further protect the quality of the nation's beaches. The November 8th final rule established more protective health-based federal bacteria standards for those states and territories bordering Great Lakes or ocean waters that have not yet adopted standards in accordance with the BEACH Act of 2000 . These federal water quality standards are part of the Administration's Clean Beaches Plan , which also includes grants to states and territories for beach monitoring and public notification programs, technical guidance , and scientific studies The BEACH Act
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Extractions: Faculty Focus The Indian picture isn't any blacker than it always was. It is just that American Indians are trying to do something about their problems and injustices. They are speaking out more and making their wishes known. Maybe a new day is dawning for the Indian. -Robert K. Thomas, Indian Voices Although Robert K. Thomas was known primarily as an ethnographer and cultural anthropologist of considerable stature, his interests and activities transcended all boundaries conventionally associated with those fields. Stan Steiner, for one, went to some lengths in recording Bob's involvement with organizations like the National Indian Youth Council during the 1960s, and careful students will discover not a few explicitly political treatises published under his by-line, mostly appearing in the American Indian activist-pulp venues of the day, papers like Indian Voices and ABC: Americans Before Columbus . On the scholarly side of things, too, he was known to make such excursions into what has today come to be known as "applied" anthropology. His essay "Powerless Politics," for example, published in the winter 1966-67 edition of New University Thought, a small-circulation academic journal produced at the University of Chicago, is known to have had a significant impact upon the leadership of the fish-in protests of the Pacific Northwest in 1967, occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969, and 1972 Trail of Broken Treaties.
Search - International Herald Tribune In January, guam is to receive a third us nuclear attack submarine, the Houston . in guam, the us territory 240 kilometers, or 150 miles, south of here. http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/12/29/news/china.html
June 24, 1998 Whereas guam is the only remaining United States territory to have been occupied by Whereas the CSD, after conducting studies on 5 guam political status http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:S.RES.254:
World War II Artefacts And Wartime Use Of Caves In Guam Liberated by the us on July 21, 1944, guam was a restricted military area until1962 (Rogers, 1996). Since the war, it has remained a territory of the us. http://www.shef.ac.uk/~capra/4/danko.html
Recolonizing Islands And Decolonizing History guam, colonized for over 300 years and still a us territory, now has satellites of What claim do the people whose history we study have upon our work? http://www.micsem.org/pubs/articles/historical/recoldecol.htm
Extractions: Over there on Tumon Bay, where we will be holding our sessions, is the heart of the tourist trade that brings some 600,000 visitors each year. It is also the spot where, 300 years ago, the Jesuit priest Diego Luis de Sanvitores met his death - a death that some see as martyrdom, and others claim was just retribution for the calamities his compatriots unleashed on the island.
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Extractions: [Access article in PDF] This book by Mac Marshall seeks to explore the effects of regional and international migration on a small community on the atoll of Namoluk, in Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia. The atoll has eight matrilineal clans, the original members of which immigrated to Namoluk from ten other nearby islands: seven in the Mortlocks, two in Chuuk Lagoon, and Polowat Atoll. "This diversity of background is typical of Carolinian atoll communities and is hardly unique to Namoluk" (135). While Marshall describes the highlights of Namoluk history, its settlement, discovery by Europeans, and colonization (first by Spain, and then Germany, Japan, and finally the United States), as well as its geography, kinship system, and social structure, his main interest is social change, especially that brought about by migratory movements.
NOTICE In addition, because no study area included the territory of guam when the We conclude, based on the record before us, that authorizing a new study area http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Orders/1997/da970595.txt
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If you need the complete document, download the WordPerfect version or Adobe Acrobat version, if available. ***************************************************************** Before the Federal Communications Commission Washington, D.C. 20554 In the Matter of ) AAD 97-27 ) Guam Telephone Authority ) ) Petition for Declaratory Ruling ) REPORT AND ORDER Adopted: March 20, 1997 Released: March 21, 1997 By the Chief, Accounting and Audits Division Common Carrier Bureau: I. INTRODUCTION 1. On January 16, 1997, Guam Telephone Authority ("GTA") requested that the Commission issue a declaratory ruling allowing the establishment of a study area encompassing the Territory of Guam ("Petition"). In the alternative, GTA requested a waiver of the definition of "Study Area" contained in Part 36 Appendix-Glossary of the Commission's rules, a definition that freezes the geographic boundaries of all study areas. 2. On February 3, 1997, the Common Carrier Bureau ("Bureau") released a Public Notice soliciting comments on GTA's Petition. Comments were filed by Guam Cable Telecommunications, Inc. ("Guam Cablecom") and the National Telephone Cooperative Association ("NTCA"). Reply comments were filed by GTA. In this Order, we find that creation of a study area for the Territory of Guam would serve the public interest. We therefore grant GTA's Petition. II. BACKGROUND 3. A study area is a geographic segment of an ILEC's telephone operations. Generally, a study area corresponds to an ILEC's entire service area within a state. Thus, ILECs operating in more than one state typically have one study area for each state. ILECs operating in a single state typically have a single study area. Study area boundaries are important primarily because ILECs perform jurisdictional separations at the study area level. For jurisdictional separations purposes, the Commission froze all study area boundaries effective November 15, 1984. The Commission took that action primarily to ensure that ILECs do not set up high-cost exchanges within their existing service territories as separate study areas to maximize interstate cost allocations. In evaluating petitions seeking a study area waiver, the Commission employs a three-pronged standard: first, the change in study area boundaries must not adversely affect the Universal Service Fund ("USF"); second, the state commission(s) having regulatory authority over the exchange(s) to be transferred must not object to the change; and third, the public interest must support such a change. 4. GTA is a self-governed agency of the Government of Guam providing exchange and exchange access service in the Territory of Guam. GTA was authorized in 1973 to take over the telephone facilities of the U.S. Navy, which had provided telephone service on Guam since the end of World War II. GTA did not consider itself to be subject to the Communications Act of 1934 and therefore failed to file exchange access tariffs with the Commission. In addition, because no study area included the Territory of Guam when the Commission froze the study area boundaries, Guam was not included within the "frozen" study areas. 5. In 1990, a Guam-based interexchange carrier petitioned the Commission to require GTA to file an interstate access tariff and to convert its existing equipment to offer equal access. The Commission held in 1992 that the Territory of Guam and GTA were subject to the Communications Act of 1934 and required GTA to show cause why it should not be required to file interstate and foreign exchange access service tariffs with the Commission. GTA subsequently filed an Integrated Compliance Plan under which it proposed to convert to cost- based federal interstate access tariffs over a four-year period. GTA intends to participate in the NECA tariffs that will become effective on July 1, 1997. III. THE PETITION 6. GTA states that establishment of the Territory of Guam as a study area is an administrative step that is necessary for GTA to become a fully compliant domestic local exchange carrier. In particular, GTA states that such a designation is required for GTA to perform the cost studies needed to file tariffs and urges the Commission to respond expeditiously so that GTA can file an access tariff that will be effective on July 1, 1997. 7. GTA supports its waiver request with an Order from the Public Utilities Commission Territory of Guam ("Guam PUC") stating that the Guam PUC has no objection to the establishment of Guam as a study area. GTA states that there will be no adverse impact on the USF as a result of establishing Guam as a study area. GTA represents that its annual cost per line is $266.15, as compared to the national average cost per line of $248.40. GTA therefore states that it will not be eligible for high cost assistance because its average cost per line does not exceed 115% of the national average cost per line. Finally, GTA requests that the Commission assign a "COSA" code for the Territory of Guam study area. IV. COMMENTS 8. NTCA supports GTA's petition because it would enable GTA to file access charge tariffs in accordance with the Commission's requirements. NTCA states that GTA's participation in the NECA tariffs will benefit the public and GTA consumers by allowing GTA to realize the benefits of efficiencies implicit in the NECA pools. NTCA also urges the Commission to declare that GTA's request for a study area waiver is unnecessary because the Commission does not require a waiver when a separately incorporated company creates a study area for previously unserved territory. NTCA argues that because Guam has never been included in a study area, it is tantamount to previously unserved territory. 9. Guam Cablecom asserts that Guam is not, and should not be declared, a study area because competition would be impaired. Contending that GTA's Petition stems in part from Guam Cablecom's attempts to negotiate with GTA for interconnection with and resale of GTA's telephone services, Guam Cablecom also asserts the following: (1) GTA is a financially thriving entity reaping monopoly profits from its monopoly position and the people of Guam need and deserve the benefits of local exchange competition; (2) the Congressional intent of the 1996 Act was to construe exemptions from competition narrowly to protect consumers in areas that cannot support multiple carriers, not to protect carriers per se; (3) GTA is an incumbent local exchange carrier ("ILEC"); and (4) GTA is subject to the Telecommunications Act of 1996. 10. In its Reply, GTA states that its request for a waiver does not relate to the activities of Guam Cablecom, but stems instead from the need for GTA to file access tariffs. Noting that Guam Cablecom's comments are irrelevant to the issues raised by the instant request for a study area, GTA requests that the Commission refer these issues for proper consideration to the proceeding instituted by the Guam PUC's Petition for a Declaratory Ruling. GTA urges that the Commission not condone this effort to prevent GTA from coming into compliance with the Commission's requirements. V. DISCUSSION 11. The Common Carrier Bureau clarified on July 16, 1996, that a separately incorporated company may create a study area for a previously unserved territory without requesting a waiver. We find that as a territory that has been served by GTA since 1973, Guam does not fall within this exception from our waiver requirements. 12. GTA proposes to participate in the NECA tariffs as a cost company. GTA's interstate costs provide the basis for rate development information provided to NECA and for defining settlement amounts it will receive from NECA. To participate in the NECA tariff process as a cost company, GTA must apply the Commission's jurisdictional separations rules to determine its interstate costs. These rules require a carrier to separate its costs between the state and interstate jurisdictions by study area. Therefore, we find it necessary to establish a study area for GTA's service territory in Guam so that it may participate in interstate access tariffs. 13. The study area freeze was adopted to prevent companies from disaggregating and recombining study areas, and portions thereof, to increase interstate revenue requirements, and compensation, through the manipulation of study area boundaries. We conclude, based on the record before us, that authorizing a new study area that merely encompasses GTA's existing service area will not compromise the Commission's reasons for freezing the study area boundaries. We also find that our three-pronged standard for study area waivers has been met in the following ways: first, there will be no adverse impact on the USF because, as GTA claims, it will not be eligible for high cost assistance; second, the Guam PUC does not object to creation of the study area; and third, the public interest supports creation of the study area because the geographical designation is necessary for compliance with the Commission's rules. We therefore authorize a new study area coterminous with the geographic boundaries encompassing the Territory of Guam. We also assign COSA code "GUMI" for the purpose of GTA's ARMIS, Form 492A, and Tariff Review Plan filings. 14. Guam Cablecom argues that grant of a study area waiver would be anti- competitive. It fails, however, to provide any support for this allegation. Guam Cablecom raises additional issues that are beyond the scope of this proceeding. We will address these issues in the Guam PUC Proceeding. VI. ORDERING CLAUSES 15. Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED, pursuant to Sections 1, 4(i), 5(c), 201 and 202 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 151, 154(i), 155(c), 201 and 202, and Sections 0.91, 0.291, and 1.3 of the Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R. 0.91, 0.291, and 1.3, that the Request for Declaratory Ruling of the Guam Telephone Authority to authorize the establishment of a study area encompassing the Territory of Guam IS GRANTED. 16. Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED, pursuant to Sections 1, 4(i), 5(c), 201 and 202 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 151, 154(i), 155(c), 201 and 202, and Sections 0.91 and 0.291 of the Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R. 0.91 and 0.291 that GTA SHALL USE COSA Code "GUMI" in its filings with this Commission. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Kenneth P. Moran Chief, Accounting and Audits Division Common Carrier
TED Saipan Case Study By Elizabeth Sobel This is the story about an American territory whose exemption from federal duties, without having to go to nearby guam or any other us immigration zone. http://www.american.edu/TED/saipan.htm
Extractions: This case study is about Saipan, capital of the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), which is famous to Japanese tourists for its beautiful beaches, golf courses, and sex industry, but infamous Following is Chie's story, which illustrates the abuse, exploitation, powerlessness and vulnerability of hundreds and thousands of Chinese, Filipino, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan and Thai women and men who have left their countries in search for better opportunities for themselves and their families. It is a story that has reproduced itself in the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Island's garment, sexual slavery, domestic servitude, security, and construction industries. It is a story that humanizes the global problem of human trafficking for forced labor.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin Editorial - Our Opinion A us commission recommends $125 million for guam residents for their suffering In addition, studies might lead to insights into how Alzheimer s develops http://starbulletin.com/2004/06/12/editorial/editorials.html
Extractions: WHEN the United States waived claims of reparations against the Japanese following World War II, it essentially assumed the burden of paying compensation to residents of U.S. territories. Guam residents who suffered brutality at the hands of their Japanese for 30 months are still waiting for compensation, comparable to that paid to residents of Micronesia and the Philippines. Congress should approve a federal commission's recommendation of payments totaling $125 million to the victims of atrocities and barbarism. The Guam War Claims Review Commission, appointed last September by Interior Secretary Gale Norton, conducted hearings and heard stories of "oppressive, cruel and barbaric" conduct by the Japanese during its occupation from the day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor until August 1944, when Guam was liberated by U.S. forces. The Japanese tortured Guam's indigenous Chamorros for concealing American soldiers in the territory. "Public executions usually by beheading became frighteningly common," the five-member commission said this week in its report back to Norton.
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Extractions: American Samoa American Samoa , a group of islands in the mid-South Pacific, is located about 2,300 miles from Honolulu. American Samoa has a land area of 76 square miles and approximately 57,291 residents (est. 2000, U.S. Census Bureau), most of whom live on Tutuila. Since American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the U.S., its people are U.S. nationals who freely enter the U.S. An estimated 65,000 Samoans have migrated to the West Coast and some 20,000 live in Hawaii. The territory has an important tuna processing industry, and its capital, Pago Pago, has a great natural harbor with dry dock and port facilities. The local government is the biggest employer in American Samoa. Culture The Samoan culture is strong and intact. The Faasamoa (Samoan way of life) is centered on the "aiga" (family), which consists of the immediate family and extended family members (maternal and paternal) such as grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins. The family name holds special value in the hearts of Samoans and every opportunity is taken to keep that name in good standing within the community. The "matai" (chief) is the head of the family and has the final say on decisions that are made for the family and their land. Land in American Samoa is communally owned; therefore, it is up to the matai of the family to distribute the land among family members. Community hospitality is ingrained into the Samoan way of life with families commonly inviting guests into their homes.
Text Of US Habitual Residence Regulations For FAS Citizens Of Micronesia. In guam, Puerto Rico, and. The us Virgin Islands Those territoriesand possessions are at present guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, http://www.macmeekin.com/Library/Regs/Habitualres/text.htm
Extractions: Dan MacMeekin Attorney at Law Washington, DC, USA ISLAND LAW Library Documents Relations between dependent islands and the mother country Citizenship and immigration United States Regulations Governing Habitual Residence Of Citizens of the Freely Associated States Of Micronesia In Guam, Puerto Rico, and The U.S. Virgin Islands Return to table of contents [TEXT OF REGULATION]: Accordingly, part 214 of chapter I of title 8 of the Code of Federal Regulations is amended as follows: 1. The authority citation for part 214 is revised to read as follows: Authority : 8 U.S.C. 1101, 1103, 1182, 1184, 1186a, 1187, 1221, 1281, 1282; sec. 643, Pub. L. 104-208, 110 Stat. 3009-708; Section 141 of the Compacts of Free Association with the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and with the Government of Palau, 48 U.S.C. 1901, note, and 1931 note, respectively; 8 CFR part 2. Top of page Return to table of contents 2. Section 214.7 is added to read as follows: § 214.7 What is habitual residence in the territories and possessions of the United States and what are the consequences thereof?
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