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Article: National Security and Self-Determination: United States Policy in Micronesia (1961-1972).(Review)
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- The Contemporary Pacific
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 University of Hawaii Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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National Security and Self-Determination: United States Policy in Micronesia (1961-1972), by Howard P Willens and Deanne C Siemer. Westport, CT and London: Praeger, 2000. ISBN 0-275-96914-2, x + 312 pages, maps, photographs, tables, notes, appendixes, bibliography, index. US$65.
Willens and Siemer are a Washington, DC based husband and wife legal team with extensive experience with a variety of federal agencies and the private sector. As noted in their introduction, since December 1972 they have had a "close professional and personal relationship with the people of the Northern Mariana Islands" (ix). They represented the Northern Marianas in the negotiations that ...