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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 7D Holding On In Micronesia War II airfields on Tinian are Vt VST "We have plenty of time tor sex, it we're and we're inclined." "Sometimes I feel guilty when I think ot him at home, taking care ot the kids." "I'll be honest I used to think women weren't complete people." I i i I- 11 I -J "I enjoy sex. As a matter of tact, I love it. There's a difference, for me, between Casual sex and love." "II you train them equally, the gap between them in sports will narrow considerably." "Black men will not admit that they have just normal sexuality and normal capacity." Hawaii and Asia is U.S.-owned Guam. And Guam sits right in the middle of Micronesia.

In 1941, with the Japanese administering Micronesia under a League of Nations mandate, Guam became the first American base to fall in World War II. The United States has governed the Micronesians with a missionary zeal that showed little concern for their bodies while filling their minds with the glories of American democracy. In the schools, and in supposedly harmless local affairs, the Americans allowed the Micronesians self-government. They even allowed the creation of an elected Congress of Micronesia eight years ago. Washington also promised that "someday" Micronesia would be independent, but no dates were circled on the Department of Interior calendars.

Now many Micronesians want their independence. Truk high school students such as William Irriate, writing in the Xavier High School paper, ask: "How is i' that Papua-New Guinea, a country that is similar and yet much more backward than ours, is now a free and independent nation while we are not only still under the United States, but are also drifting away from each other?" Geography is part of the answer to Irriate's question. The Micronesians live insular lives on a few square miles of island separated from other groups by vast stretches of water. They have an islander's distrust of all outsiders and, as Micronesians, are' united only by the language of their current colonial government. First it was Spanish, then German, then Japanese and now English.

The illusion of Micronesian nationalism was splintered into Palauan, Marshallese and Saipanese nationalism when independence suddenly became a distinct possibility. Every district leader thrust out a brown-skinned hand to grab as much as possible for himself and his clan. The Marshallese thought it unfair that they should share their fat tax revenues from the Kwajalein missile range and began talking unification with the newly proclaimed Republic of Nauru. Their legislature voted to pull out of the Congress of Micronesia. The Palauans at the eastern end of Micronesia also are being urged by their leaders to split.

They have strong ties with Japan and a rich tourist and fishing potential. Saipan and Tinian figure the glitter of American dollars more at- tractive than independence, and their majorities favor staying with the Americans, particularly if the old World reactivated to inject million- dollar military payrolls into the local economy. Friends with warm-water ports are very much a part of the new Soviet interest in the Pacific. Last April, Micronesian and American negotiators worked out a preliminary "free asso ciation" pact which would grant independence some time after 1980, but only after several preconditions were met. First, the Micronesians must hold a constitutional convention and choose their own type of government.

That is scheduled for next year. Then the Micronesians must vote on the proposed "free association" pact agreed to by the negotiators last April. Next comes the cruncher: The U.S. Congress must approve the agreement if it is accepted by the Micronesians. There is a final hurdle; the pact must be blessed by the United Nations.

The "free assitciation" contract states that the Americans will guide Micronesia's foreign and defense destinies for 15 years. Micronesia will then be allowed complete independence after reaching some sort of mutual security agreement with Washington. An estimated one billion dollars worth of American aid is guaranteed during the 15-year transition period. No constitutional convention has ever faced a bigger construction job than assembling a Micronesian constitution that will be acceptable to the Yapese, Trukese, Chamor- ros, Palauans, Marshallese, the Pentagon, The United Nations, and the U.S. Interior Department and Congress.

The final answer to William Irriate's question will be given in Washington where Congress will ultimately flecide just how much freedom Micronesia should have, and when. And many congressmen will be remembering such names as Peleliu, Bloody Nose Ridge, Truk, Guam, Saipan, Kwajalein and the rest of the World War II Micronesian battlefields where American lives, blood and money were paid to guarantee the freedom of millions of Americans. Although sympathetic to Micronesia's desire for complete independence, the American administrators of the trust territory in Saipan see no chance of congressional approval of independence that doesn't include American military dominance in one form or another. In Hawaii, a Pearl Harbor authority summed it up by saying: "We don't particularly want or need Micronesia right now, but we want to make damn certain that nobody else gets it." Tonight Barbara Walters and Tom co-ancnor an extraordinary three-hour-long program about the explosive revolution-in-progress that's shaking up bedrooms and boardrooms alike: the revolution in relations between the sexes. It's a fascinating and forthright three hours on.a subject that involves everybody.

7-00 10:00 Hy KuImtI C. Milh (r I'nilfil I'ri'HHliiu-nialioiiul SAI PAN, Micronesia An embarrassed America is treed by the problem. (if what to do with its World War II foundling, Micronesia. The Japanese and the Russians have come courting with-money and promises and many of the Micronesia who live in this 2140-island Pacific paradise want independence. The Pentagon, however, insists that at least some parts of Micronesia must remain perpetually under America's paternalistic palm.

The Micronesians became' United States wards under a United Nations trusteeship in 1945. The 3.000,000 square miles of ocean, atolls and volcanic islands, including the Marshalls, Carolines and Marianas, were used for atomic testing and as a convenient dumping ground for bureaucrats and political castoffs. The trust territory maladministration caused no concern to anyone except a few at the United Nations, most of whom spoke with a Communist accent. More recently Micronesia has become a militarily desirable mailing address. The islands form an in-depth fence across the Pacific a convenient buffer protecting America from possible Asian enemies.

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