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...Under Secretary is Tang Ming-chao, 62, an American-educated diplomat who edited a newspaper in New York's Chinatown before returning to his homeland in 1950. In his new post, Tang will be involved with the work of the U.N. Trusteeship Council. He will thereby be in a position to press for the independence of the world's remaining colonial territories...
Though Nixon's plan was a buoyant -and unprecedented-gesture by a major world power, it came in for surprisingly heavy criticism at the Malta conference. Third World delegates heard ominous colonial overtones in the term trusteeship. Britain's Lord Ritchie-Calder wanted faster action t? keep the arms race out of the seabed. It is now so easy to detect land-based military sites, he said, that the big powers will soon look to the "opaque depths of the seas" for concealment...
...great-great-great grandfather founded the school in 1865, and he has long been in line for the hereditary trusteeship reserved for his family. Thus, on his 21st birthday this week, Ezra Cornell IV becomes the first student trustee in Cornell University's history. He has already made it clear that he takes the job seriously. "Last year's demonstrations by armed black militants are still on my mind," he said. "I'm still trying to think about what the Negroes really want. How can we help them the most? How can we help ourselves...
Abram said the trusteeship arrangement will last only until the Independent can incorporate. "But as of now." Atkinson said yesterday, "the paper belongs to Abram...
...this Micronesian, your article "Remembering an Adopted Cousin" [May 23] is one of the best things that has happened to Micronesia since 1947, when the United Nations handed Micronesia over to the U.S. under a trusteeship arrangement. The U.S.'s negligence towards the "adopted cousin" is portrayed in Willard Price's America's Paradise Lost...