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Based on interviews and once-classified documents, this work examines the efforts of Defence, state and interior officials to implement President Kennedy's 1962 policy to bring the islands now known as Micronesia under the United States' sovereignty.

In 1975, after three centuries of colonial rule, the people of the Northern Marianas exercised their right of self-determination to become U.S. citizens in a self-governing commonwealth under U.S. sovereignty. An Honorable Accord is the remarkable account of their tenacious efforts to shape a political future separate from other Micronesian peoples, of the negotiations that produced the Covenant defining the commonwealth relationship, and its ...