U.S. Pacific Command Happenings from Andersen Air Force Base in the us territory of guam B52 bombers had previouslydeployed to guam in September Members of Class 98-3 of us Pacific Command's http://forum.apan-info.net/spring99/hap1.html
Extractions: PHOTO CAPTIONS: 1. U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen and Singapore Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Tony Tan after signing an agreement in November 1998 authorizing U.S. military forces to use facilities in Singapore, including access for a U.S. aircraft carrier at a new Singapore naval base being built. 2. Four U.S. Air Force long-range B-1 Lancer bombers deployed to the Asia-Pacific in October 1998 on a training mission demonstrating global reach. They also participated in an air show and exercise in the Republic of Korea. The bombers operated from Andersen Air Force Base in the U.S. Territory of Guam. Three B-2 Stealth bombers and three B-52 bombers had previously deployed to Guam in September 1998 on a short-notice, air power exercise. 3. U.S. Pacific Command's cold-weather soldiers of the Alaskan Command conduct exercise NORTHERN EDGE in Alaska. Two CH-47 helicopters move U.S. Army HUMMV vehicles in slings at Fort Greely, Alaska. 4. SMSgt. Hiroshi Nishihama and SSgt. Kenzo Koyama of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force join U.S. Air Force SSgt. Miguel Perez in receiving the U.S. Air Force's highest peacetime medal for heroism - the Airman's Medal. The Japanese and U.S. airmen received the decoration for bravely rescuing a U.S. pilot trapped in a burning F-16 at Misawa Air Base, Japan. The Commander of U.S. Forces Japan, Lt. Gen. John Hall, Jr., USAF, lauded the Japanese-American spirit of cooperation which characterized the rescuers. He said, "You have created a culture and attitude that encourage trust, respect and teamwork . . . magnificently displayed in this rescue effort to save a fellow warrior."
Extractions: AMERICA'S HALF-FORGOTTEN FORMER TRUST TERRITORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS By Colin Woodard UMAN, Federated States of Micronesia (December 27, 1999 The Christian Science Monitor)-Sixty years ago, residents of this small tropical island had access to electricity, running water, paved roads, good schools, competent health care, and a regular ferry service to the main town on a nearby island of the Chuuk archipelago. But after 40 years as a U.S. trust territory - and another 15 years of U.S.-funded development - Uman has none of these things. The roads built by the Japanese before World War II have been reduced to slender footpaths. Japanese-era industrial machinery rusts in the jungles, and shrubs grow on the main dock. With no jobs and no future, young men drift to the district center, Weno, where many regularly drink themselves into a violent rage, then attack anyone or anything around them. The neglected, supply-starved hospital has such a poor reputation that even those seriously injured in attacks prefer not to be treated. All this in a nation of 130,000 that has received more than $1.3 billion in U.S. grants - $ 10,000 per person - over the past 13 years.
PALAU: A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY at University of guam, Micronesian Area Research Center, Mangilao, guam. MicronesiaDecolonisation and us Military Interests in the Trust territory of the http://www.hawaii.edu/movingcultures/network_palau_biblio.htm
Extractions: HAWAII FIJI JAPAN NEW ZEALAND ... SINGAPORE compiled by Terence Wesley-Smith Bibliographic works Relevant periodicals Ethnography History ... Contemporary issues Kiste, Robert C. 1986. Micronesia. In Pacific Island Studies: A Survey of the Literature . edited by Miles M. Jackson, 61-114. New York; Westport, Conn.; London: Greenwood Press. Goetzfridt, Nicholas J. and William L. Wuerch. 1988? Micronesia 1975-1987: a Social Science Bibliography. New York; Wesport Conn.; London: Greenwood Press. Marshall, Mac and James B. Nason. 1975. Micronesia 1944-1974; A Bibliography of Anthropological and Related Source Materials. New Haven: Human Relations Area File Press. The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs . Honolulu. Bi-annual scholarly journal. Includes annual review of developments in Palau, spring issues. Full Moon. Koror, Palau. Monthly newsmagazine. ISLA: A Journal of Micronesian Studies. Guam. Bi-annual scholarly journal Islands Business. Suva, Fiji. Monthly regional newsmagazine.
American Studies Program Graduate Students and she hopes to return to guam to pursue Her principal field of specialization isUS ethnic literatures of proJapanese Caucasians in the territory of Hawai`i http://www.hawaii.edu/amst/people_gradstudents.htm
Extractions: Graduate Students Over the years UH American Studies graduate students have come from an extraordinarily wide range of backgrounds, with an equally diverse body of interests. At any given time a seminar in the department might find students from three continentswith specializations in film, politics, literature, art, popular culture, historic preservation, or moreengaged in animated cross-cultural discussion. Our current graduate students continue that tradition. Here are some of them: Magnus Andersson is working toward a PhD in the department, with particular emphases on technology and culture, criminal and social justice, and post-1945 domestic and international politics. He presently is doing research in the United States and Sweden on a dissertation dealing with U.S. military deserters and so-called draft dodgers who took refuge in Sweden between 1967 and 1973. Magnus was born in the small town of Halmstad in the south of Sweden and earned an MA in economics and an MBA (though he now says he can’t remember why) before joining the American Studies department. During his time in the department he has been a teaching assistant and lecturer and served as membership coordinator of the Hawai`i American Studies Association. Although he plans to return to Europe for a teaching career, he says "politically vibrant Hawai`i will always be my crossroad." Freda Arii Robyn Blanpied is a PhD candidate originally from upstate New York–"among the cows, apples, and snowdrifts," she says. After receiving a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, Robyn served as a commissioned officer in the US Air Force. At UH she earned an MA in American Studies, with a concentration in historic preservation, and presently is writing a dissertation on the use of images in constructing historic memories of the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
Asia Pacific Transcripts be made that in effect moving PCBs from guam into the importation of PCBs which isprohibited by us law So even though we are American territory and even though http://www.abc.net.au/ra/asiapac/archive/2000/may/raap-9may2000-1.htm
Extractions: The PCBs were used by the US army in electrical capacitors for its missile program in the 1950's. The army departed in the ninteen sixties leaving the capacitors behind. They were rediscovered eleven years go and over the last ten years the US army crp has been attempting to clean up sites where the capacitors were dumped. Former Marianas land secretary, Benigno Babauta. BABAUTA: There are fifty-three capacitors found on island, particularly on this village of Tanapag. We are trying our very best to locate documents, information as to axactly how many capacitors were brought on Saipan. Nobody knows that answer yet not even the Federal Government, the Army Corps, the EPA, the division of environmental quality, our health department, nobody knows exactly how many capacitors are brought in from the Marshall Islands.
FAS Email Archives -- 1995-96 Missile Defense Monitor that could strike the us territory of guam, the London Korean submarine which Seoulsays infiltrated its territory. told Kyodo news service a us satellite first http://www.fas.org/MHonArc/BMDList_archive96/msg00098.html
The Extent & Condition Of U.S. Coral Reefs - National Picture guam. Located about 3,700 miles westsouthwest of Honolulu, guamis a us territory with a locally elected government. It is the http://state-of-coast.noaa.gov/bulletins/html/crf_08/national.html
Extractions: Photo 5. The Florida reef tract accounts for nearly one-third of U.S. coral reef holdings in the Caribbean. Photo 9. A diver works to remove blackband disease. Photo 12. Coral reefs are an important part of tourism in the Northern Mariana Islands. Most of the economy depends on tourism. Estimates of total coral reef coverage, worldwide and nationally, are based on data sets of extremely rough scale, and many areas are not yet characterized. For example, in a recent estimate of shallow coral reefs (based on charts) for areas located in major geographic regions only five percent of reefs were mapped at a scale of 1:100,000 or better ( Table 1 , Spalding and Grenfell 1997). A second estimate is presented in Table 1 based on available platforms suitable for reef growth in water less than 30 meters deep(Smith 1978). Additional estimates range from 100 to 3,930 x 10 sq km (Kleypas, 1997), which suggests the great difficulty scientists have in making even first order attempts to define regional and global reef area. Differences in estimates for similar regions mostly reflect biases based on methodology and a general lack of information.
Director Of Development Distinguished Alumnus School of Natural and Social Sciences. Robert A. Underwood'69, '71, us Congressman House of Representatives, territory of guam. http://nss.calstatela.edu/nssoffice/distalumniaward.htm
Extractions: Alumni Association Newsletter NSS Alumni Scholarship Distinguished Alumni Award Dean's Office What's New Alumnus of The Year ... Distinguished Alumnus School of NSS Alumni from the School of Natural and Social Sciences were well represented at the 27th Annual Alumni Awards Gala held Tuesday, May 16, 2000 at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex. Mr. Ronnie C. Chan, Chairman of the Hang Lung Development Group, who received his B.A. and M. A. in Biology, was recognized as the Alumnus of the Year. Dr. Louis R. Negrete, Professor of Chicano Studies, who earned his B. A. degree with a concentration in speech in 1957, was the Distinguished Faculty Awardee, and the Honorable Robert A. Underwood, Guam's Delegate to the United States, who received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in History, was recognized as the Distinguished Alumnus from the School. Alumnus of The Year Ronnie C. Chan '72, '74, Chairman of Hang Lung Development Group
Chapter 3 Puerto Rico Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the us people guam Mr.Michael J. Levin, us Bureau of the research at hand, travel to guam and the http://ponce.inter.edu/vl/tesis/sharon/chap3.html
Extractions: CHAPTER III - METHODOLOGY This historical-comparative study of the language policies in Guam, the Philippines and Puerto Rico intended to systematically present the factors and social processes related to language maintenance and language shift in these areas. In particular, those factors related to nationalism and its role in native language maintenance were examined. In addition to contributing to a research area where systematic analysis has been found lacking (Fishman, 1972, 1977, 1991), strategies for formation of more effective and ethnoculturally sensitive language policies were recommended. Design Geographic Areas Guam : Guam, an unincorporated territory of the United States, is the largest and Southernmost island in the Marianas. The Island lies approximately 3,700 miles West-Southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii and 1,500 miles South of Tokyo, Japan. It is approximately 30 miles long and five to eight and a half miles wide. The population of Guam in 1990 was 133,152 (Department of Commerce, 1993, p. 1). Philippines : An archipelago of approximately 7,100 islands stretching 1,100 miles from North to South, the Republic of the Philippines is located off the Southeast coast of Asia. The population in 1990 was 66,647,000 (The World Almanac, 1992, p. 793).
Extractions: ZIP CODE tables by State (Lotus spreadsheet .WK3 format) PURPOSE AND TABULAR PRESENTATION The ZIP Code Tabulations report provides selected statistics, by ZIP Code, from the 1997 Census of Agriculture. The census of agriculture, conducted every five years, is a comprehensive source of statistics about the Nation's farms and ranches, and the only source of comparable detailed data at the county level. The 1997 Census of Agriculture marks the third time that agricultural statistics also are available by ZIP Code. The Tabulations cover all farms, regardless of size, in all 50 States. Two new data items are included in the 1997 tabulations: (1) cut Christmas trees sold and (2) maple trees tapped. Total farm counts by five-digit ZIP Code and by ZIP Code by frequency are represented for the following items: Number of farms Market value of agricultural products sold Operator characteristics Land use including cropland harvested Land under Conservation Reserve Programs (CRP) or Wetlands Reserve Programs WRP) Acres and sales of selected crops - including corn, soybeans, sorghum, barley, cotton, tobacco, hay, vegetables, orchards, nurseries
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.
Search Engines: Asian And Pacific Islands Micronésie . Micronesië; GU guam (us) ; HM Heard and McDonalds Islands (AU) ;ID Indonesia . IO British Indian Ocean territory (UK) ; JP Japan . Japon . http://www.xs4all.nl/~wjsn/searchislands.htm
Extractions: For the Asian and Pacific Islands there are 38 domaine codes available: for the 24 sovereign states and for 14 "territories". For more information: The domaine codes for Asia and The domaine codes of the Pacific Islands Country Codes, Domaine Codes: AQ .. ID Country Codes, Domaine Codes: ID .. NZ Country Codes, Domaine Codes: NZ .. WS Google: searches all islands Asiaville: 19 Asian Countries Island Studies Organization Peace: Pictures of Countries ... Maptown: Maps of the World Sorted by country codes AQ Searching Antarctica AS Search American Samoa AS American Samoa Gov AU Australia: Matilda ... ID Indoseek: Indonesia Sorted by country codes ID Indo1 Com: Indonesia ID Elga Net: search Indonesia ID Indosite: Indonesian search ID Indocenter: Indonesia ... LK Search Lanka, Sri Lanka
U.S. Department Of The Inteior: The Department Of Everything Else The Virgin Islands, guam, and American Samoa remain entities fashioned from the TrustTerritory of the to other federal agencies; studies territorial problems http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/utley-mackintosh/interior12.htm
Extractions: THE DEPARTMENT OF EVERYTHING ELSE Territorial Affairs Territorial Affairs During most of America's nationhood, a major portion of the land under United States jurisdiction was in territories rather than states. In 1873, when Congress transferred territorial oversight from the Secretary of State to the Secretary of the Interior, the governance of some 1,629,000 square miles became a department responsibility. By then the United States had reached its present continental dimensions encompassing nearly 3,611,000 square miles, so that the territories covered about 45 percent of the national domain. From them were formed the states of Colorado in 1876; Montana, Washington, and North and South Dakota in 1889; Wyoming and Idaho in 1890; Utah in 1896; Oklahoma in 1907; Arizona and New Mexico in 1912; and Alaska in 1959. In 1898 the United States acquired its first insular possessions, annexing the Hawaiian Islands and obtaining Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines from Spain following the Spanish-American War. America's Pacific presence was extended a year later with the addition of several of the Samoan Islands. Only Hawaii came under Interior at the outset; the State Department took primary responsibility for Puerto Rico, the War Department supervised the Philippines, and the Navy Department oversaw Guam and American Samoa. When the United States purchased the Virgin Islands from Denmark in 1917, the Navy also took charge of that Caribbean possession.
Untitled Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and the Micronesian Area Research Center,guam. Prepared for Entomology Laboratory, us Trust territory of the http://www.gmu.edu/departments/anthropology/bios/pblack.html
Extractions: Peter Weston Black Department of Sociology and Anthropology George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia 22030 Phone: (703) 993-1434 FAX: (703) 993-1446 email pblack@gmu.edu Education Ph.D. Anthropology 6/77 University of California at San Diego M.A. Anthropology 6/71 University of California at San Diego B.S. Government 6/64 Columbia University Dissertation 1977 Neo-Tobian Culture: Modern Life on a Micronesian Island. University Microfilms. Ann Arbor xvi+422 Research Interests Ethnicity in Conflict and Conflict Resolution; Psychological Anthropology; Ethnopsychology; Political Anthropology; Religion; Belau, Micronesia; South Moluccans in the Netherlands Publications Book 1991 Conflict Resolution: Cross Cultural Perspectives (co-editor with K. Avruch and J. Scimecca) Westport: Greenwood Press. Articles and Chapters Essays, Reviews, and Reports
Pacific Islands the development of the former SRF facility, the us Navy has have given complete titleto the Government of guam. for Govguam that could put the territory in a http://www.pacificislands.cc/pm72001/pmdefault.cfm?articleid=6
Protected Areas Programme - environmental impact statement for flood control improvements, Agana River, Agana,territory of guam. us Army Corps of Engineers, Honolulu, Hawaii. http://www.unep-wcmc.org/sites/wetlands/gum_ref.htm
Extractions: REFERENCES Amesbury, S.S. et al . (1977). Marine environmental baseline report, Commercial Port, Apra Harbor, Guam. Univ. Guam Marine Lab. Tech. Rep. 34. 96 pp. Anon. (1990). Guam's excess military lands multiple-use and protection of world-class natural and cultural resources. Div. Forest. Soil Resources, Guam Dept. Agric., Mangilao, Guam. Unpublished. Anon. (in press, a). Natural Resources Management Plan for the U.S. Naval Station, Guam (NAVSTA Guam). Dept. of Navy, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Anon. (in press, b). Natural Resources Management Plan for the U.S. Naval Supply Depot, Guam (NSD Guam). Dept. of Navy, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Anon. (in press, c). Natural Resources Management Plan for the U.S. Navy Public Works Center (Guam). Dept. of Navy, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Baker, R.H. (1951). The avifauna of Micronesia, its origin, evolution, and distribution. Univ. Kans. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. 3: 1-359. In : Guam Div. Aquatic Wildl. Resources Ann. Rept., FY1988: 105-116. Mangilao, Guam.
World War II Artefacts And Wartime Use Of Caves In Guam be Retained by the Navy Nimitz Hill, territory of guam Journal of Cave and Karst Studies63 922 General Geology of guam, us Geological Survey Professional Paper http://www.shef.ac.uk/~capra/4/dankotext.html
Extractions: of caves in Guam, Mariana Islands D. Current address: Laboratory of Geoecology, Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, N-10, W-5, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. email: danko@ees.hokudai.ac.jp J. W. Jenson Water and Environmental Research Institute of the Western Pacific, University of Guam, Mangilao, GU 96923 e mail: jjenson@uog.edu When referencing this article, please use the following convention: Geology of Guam Guam, the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands, is an elongate island, 550 km in area, 48 km long, 6-19 km wide ( Fig. 1 ). It is divided into two major physiographic provinces: southern Guam, a rugged volcanic highland with some limestone outliers, and northern Guam, an undulating limestone plateau with two volcanic inliers. There are hundreds of caves on the island, mostly in the Plio-Pleistocene Mariana Limestone, a reef and lagoonal deposit that covers nearly all of the northern plateau and the eastern flank of southern Guam; and the Miocene Alifan limestone, a reef deposit, which caps much of the mountain ridge running along the western edge of southern Guam. The caves in these units belong to four general categories: pit caves, flank-margin caves, stream caves, and sea caves. The principal publication on the geology of the island is a report with a 1:50000 scale geologic map by Tracey
Extractions: Nondiscrimination Policy Message From VPAA Message From the Student Government President Degree Programs ... Quick Reference Numbers RICHARD F. TAITANO MICRONESIAN AREA RESEARCH CENTER RFT-MARC research faculty produce transcriptions, translations, and analytic bibliographic listings of important Spanish, German, French, Japanese, and other foreign language documents. In addition to archival and historical research, RFT-MARC faculty have conducted research in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, history, education, political science, economics, and sociology. The service role of RFT-MARC is performed through its program of publishing, teaching, presenting public lectures, and coordinating campus events related to Guam and the Pacific. RFT-MARC faculty and staff also provide community services through consultation and cooperation with many government agencies and community organizations. Financial support for the RFT-MARC program of collection development and research has come primarily from the Guam Legislature. In addition, grants and contracts have been awarded by the National Park Service, the U.S. Department of Education (Title VI), the U.S. Department of the Interior, the U. S. Navy, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, the National Geographic Society, the Asia Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the South Pacific Commission, and the Guam Preservation Trust. Special acquisitions projects and assignments have been carried out by RFT-MARC researchers in the archives and libraries of Europe, Mexico, Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, as well as in the mainland United States and Hawaii. Visit RFT-MARC's web site: www.uog.edu/marc for additional information.
Extractions: AREA-[ ARTICLE ] by Dr. Thomas O. Lemke The Marianas Fruit Bat (Pteropus mariannus) is in serious danger of extinction if its population decline is not halted in the near future. With a 3 foot wingspan and a weight of a pound or more, this flying fox is the largest native mammal in the Mariana Islands, a 15 island archipelago located in the western Pacific 1500 miles southeast of Japan and 3800 miles west of Hawaii. The southernmost island, Guam, is a U.S. Territory and the rest of the islands form the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands (CNMI). Recent wildlife surveys in the CNMI have verified that Marianas Fruit Bats are close to extinction on three islands (including Saipan, the Commonwealth capitol), declining rapidly on a fourth island and are subject to illegal hunting throughout the Commonwealth, including the remote islands north of Saipan. The Marianas Fruit Bat was listed as an endangered species on Guam by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1984 and has been protected by CNMI law since 1977 History of Decline Prior to the early 1970's these fruit bats were common on most islands in the CNMI and on Guam. In 1957 there was an estimated population of 3000 on Guam. Today there are approximately 400-500 remaining. The undeniable reason for the decline in fruit bats is over-hunting for personal consumption and commercial exploitation by market hunters. Fruit bats, or "fanihi" as they are known locally, are a delicacy in the native Chamorro culture, and recipes for fruit bats appear in modern day cookbooks. The bats are boiled in a mixture of water, coconut milk, spices and onions and eaten whole, including fur, wings and internal organs. The uncontrolled harvest of any species can endanger its existence, and the decline of fruit bats in the Marianas is a classic case of over-exploitation with no regard for conservation or management of the resource.
