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	Marianas Missions - USS War Hawk - AP-168 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The assault on Marianas was conducted with overwhelming in force.
		What was left was a brutal war of attrition for the Japanese until the commanding general Saito committed suicide and the island was declared liberated on 9 July 1944.
		En route, she was diverted from the canceled invasion of Yap to take part in the invasion of the Philippines.
	home.pacbell.net /lesds/WarHawk/Marianas.html (521 words)

	DCCC.org: AP - Democratic challenger Brown attacks Doolittle over Marianas
		Doolittle, who traveled to the Mariana Islands in 1999, subsequently spoke favorably of conditions there and opposed bills to raise the minimum wage and impose U.S. immigration laws.
		While visiting the Marianas, Doolittle witnessed "an unfettered, free-market system that resulted in clean and orderly factories and employees who expressed personal satisfaction with their jobs," said a statement from Doolittle's congressional office.
		Defenders of Wildlife sent a mailer to voters in Pombo's district accusing him of refusing to investigate child prostitution and forced labor in the Marianas and contending it was because he was under Abramoff's influence.
	www.dccc.org /news/headlines/republicans_exposed/AP_Doolittle_Marianas (698 words)

	Mariana Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Marianas are the northernmost islands of a larger island group called Micronesia, situated between 13° and 21° N. latitude and 144° and 146° E. longitude.
		The fauna of the Marianas, though inferior in number and variety, is similar in character to that of the Carolines, and certain species are indigenous to both colonies.
		The Prefecture Apostolic of the Marianas was erected on 17 September 1902, by the Constitution "Quae mari sinico" of pope Leo XIII.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marianas (1198 words)

	Information from Congressman George Miller on the Northern Marianas Islands
		The Marianas is a U.S. territory in the western Pacific that, in 1986, was granted the right to set its own wage laws – lower than the federal minimum – and to control its own immigration flows outside of the federal immigration system.
		The Marianas’ local control of immigration not only contributed to labor and human rights abuses of poor women, but it also poses a potential security threat to the rest of the United States.
		The bill Miller and his colleagues are introducing, “The United States-Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Human Dignity Act,” would apply federal immigration control and U.S. minimum wage law to the CNMI and would close other legal loopholes that have badly distorted the local economy and injured thousands of workers.
	www.house.gov /georgemiller/marianas.html (884 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Marianas tropical dry forests (OC0203)
		The climate of the Mariana Islands is tropical with little seasonal temperature change and average monthly temperatures ranging from 24 to 27ºC. Annual precipitation, which averages between 2,000 and 2,500 mm, is strongly seasonal with heavy rains from July through October.
		Asuncion is the largest of the Mariana Islands that remains uninhabited by humans, and free of cattle, pigs, and goats.
		The Marianas are given ecoregional status on the basis of its endemic bird fauna.
	worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/oc/oc0203_full.html (2123 words)

	Vents Program: Marianas
		The Mariana Volcanic Arc extends from 13°N to 23°N in the western Pacific Ocean, northwest of Guam.
		The Marianas is one of the most active volcanic arcs on Earth.
		It was found that about 20% of the Marianas submarine volcanoes were hydrothermally active.
	www.pmel.noaa.gov /vents/marianas_site.html (185 words)

	Marianas - Coalition Against Trafficking of Women
		Russian and Chinese women were trafficked for the purpose of prostitution to the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, a U.S. Territory.
		But he said the Marianas' economy would suffer if the government is forced to raise its $3.05-per-hour minimum wage to the federal level of $5.15.
		The trafficking occurred with the collusion of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration executives and officials of the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas Islands.
	www.catwinternational.org /factbook/Marianas.php (634 words)

	Boeing B-29 Superfortress -- Chapter 10 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Marianas chain of islands, consisting primarily of Saipan, Tinian, and Guam, were considered as being ideal bases from which to launch B-29 operations against Japan.
		Plans for the conquest of the Marianas had been put forward as early as May 1943 by Admiral Ernest King at the Anglo-American Trident Conference in Washington, but not much was done at the time since the US Navy was locked in a bitter contest further south in the Solomon's and New Guinea.
		During the Marianas operation, a total of 25,500 individual aircraft sorties were flow, and 170,000 tons of conventional ordnance had been dropped.
	www.csd.uwo.ca /~pettypi/elevon/baugher_us/b029-10.html (2680 words)

	HyperWar: US Army in WWII: Campaign In the Marianas
		Aslito was the principal Japanese air base in the Marianas, and its capture and development was to be the main objective of the American forces that invaded the Marianas in 1944.
		The Marianas during this period served the Japanese chiefly as supply and staging bases for troops, ships, and planes engaged in battle well to the east and south, and the strength of combat naval shore units in the area remained low.
		Finally, air strength was poured into the Marianas during the period as local airfields were developed and war came closer, so that many naval airmen and maintenance men swelled the number of naval air personnel in the islands.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-P-Marianas/USA-P-Marianas-4.html (8730 words)

	Philippine Sea: June 19 - 20, 1944
		The Battle of the Philippine Sea, 19-20 June 1944, was the fifth and last major carrier-vs-carrier battle of the Pacific War, and perhaps in history.
		Triggered by the US invasion of Saipan, in the Mariana Islands, the battle pitted the nine Japanese carriers of the Mobile Fleet against the fifteen American carriers in Task Force 58.
		Earlier reports had the carrier force east of the Marianas, but those were the "jeep" carriers supporting the expeditionary forces.
	www.cv6.org /1944/marianas/default.htm (2618 words)

	EPA > Polluted Runoff (Nonpoint Source Pollution) > Section319II > Northern Marianas Islands
		The Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands (CNMI) is a commonwealth of the United States, consisting of 16 small islands in the western Pacific.
		The project's primary goals were to help CNMI agencies develop the capacity for conducting similar projects in other watersheds and to develop a systematic method to monitor nonpoint source pollution throughout the CNMI.
		The team monitors the nearshore ecosystem to detect early changes in the reefs that may be caused by upland activities and nonpoint source pollution.
	www.epa.gov /owow/nps/Section319II/marianas.html (1134 words)

	History The first people to come to the Marianas arrived over 3500 years ago
		The U.S. District Court for the District of the Northern Mariana Islands operates in the CNMI with the Honorable Alex Munson presiding.
		The Mariana Islands are on the edge of the Philippine Plate.
		The U.S. citizen population of the Northern Marianas is predominantly of Chamorro cultural extraction, although a number of Carolinians (Chuukese, Kosraeans, Pohnpeians and Yapese) and immigrants from other areas of East Asia and Micronesia have also settled in the islands.
	www.doi.gov /oia/Islandpages/cnmimain.htm (1883 words)

	Noonsite: Northern Marianas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Of the 14 volcanic islands that stretch north to south in almost a straight line, the southernmost three, Saipan, Rota and Tinian, are the main islands.
		The islands were military-dominated for many years and access was forbidden, but that is no longer the case and now the islands attract a few cruising yachts every year.
		As the Marianas appear to be hit by typhoons every year, extreme caution must be exercised when cruising this area.
	www.noonsite.com /Countries/NorthernMarianas (392 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Marianas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Marianas MARIANAS [Marianas] see Northern Mariana Islands and Guam.
		Marianas trench MARIANAS TRENCH [Marianas trench] Marianas trough, or Marianas deep, elongated depression on the Pacific Ocean floor, 210 mi (338 km) SW of Guam.
		Northern Mariana Islands NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS [Northern Mariana Islands], commonwealth associated with the United States (2005 est.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Marianas&StartAt=1 (571 words)

	www.myspace.com/marianastrench
		Soaring in and around the guitar/bass/drum fury are four highly trained singers with the skill to break into a cappella flights of harmony.
		Fix Me, Marianas Trenchs full-length 604 Records debut, documents a hugely ambitious Vancouver quartet that has been relentlessly writing, fine-tuning and performing since the turn of the decade.
		And once Marianas Trench was signed to 604, Warne Livesey (Matthew Good Band, Midnight Oil), Brad McGivern (Bif Naked, Lillix) and the Nickelback combo of Chad Kroeger and Joey Moi helped refine the material further.
	www.myspace.com /marianastrench (970 words)

	NMC - The Marianas
		Eventual migration to the Marianas may have originated from an island in the southern Philippines about 1500 B.C. For Europeans, the Marianas were discovered by Ferdinand Magellan of Spain in 1521 on his voyage across the Pacific Region.
		Repopulation of the Northern Marianas was possible because of active recruitment of Carolinians from the outer islands of Yap as well as Chuuk.
		A constitution for the people of the Northern Mariana Islands was approved by a plebiscite in 1978, and on January 9, 1979 Carlos S. Camacho was elected as the first Governor of the island archipelago.
	www.nmcnet.edu /facultyStaff.cfm/handbook/9/f (4998 words)

	myMicronesia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Marianas Visitors Authority Chairman Jerry Tan says they want to bring in 60,000 additional Japanese tourists in the next fiscal year, a goal that can be realized if, he adds, appropriate marketing strategies are in place.
		President George W. Bush announced today his intention to nominate Clyde Bishop, of Delaware, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
		Connecting the dots in the Western Pacific.™ Serving the islands of the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, Guam, Northern Marianas and Marshall Islands.
	www.mymicronesia.com.cob-web.org:8888 /northernmarianas (1180 words)

	Northern Marianas - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Northern Marianas were formally admitted to the Commonwealth of the United States in 1986.
		Marianas' inhabitants were granted US citizenship but not the right to vote in presidential elections.
		Throughout 1999 local officials, backed by key figures from the Republican Party in the US Congress, argued intensely with the Clinton (Democrat) administration, regarding the conditions of slavery and exploitation that immigrant workers were subjected to on the island.
	gbgm-umc.org /country_profiles/countries/mnp/History.stm (737 words)

	Lemke, Dr. Thomas O., 1986. Marianas Fruit Bats Near Extinction . BATS. Vol 3, No 1:1-2.
		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.
		As a result of marked declines in Marianas Fruit Bats, the CNMI passed a moratorium on fruit bat hunting in 1977 Unfortunately there were no funds or personnel to enforce this unpopular law until the CNMI Division of Fish and Wildlife was created in 1981.
		An endangered Marianas Fruit Bat eagerly feeds on the pollen of a Freycinetia inflorescence (Freycinetia reineckei) on the island of Guam.
	www.batcon.org /batsmag/v3n1-1.html (1545 words)

	Coast Guard Marianas Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Marianas Section and the Marine Safety Office formed a consolidated command located at the Naval Forces Marianas Operations Base Guam.
		Marianas Section’s search and rescue area of responsibility encompasses the Marianas and Caroline Islands which includes Guam, the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas Islands, the Republic of Palau, and the Federated States of Micronesia (Kosrae, Pohnper, Chuuk, and Yap).
		Maintaining the highest tradition of Coast Guard’s motto of Semper Paratus, Always Ready, Marianas Section men and women serve and protect the "crossroads of the Pacific" islands.
	www.uscg.mil /d14/units/marsec.htm (308 words)

	Northern Marianas Adult Education and Literacy
		The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is a group of fifteen islands in the Pacific Ocean located 3,500 miles west of Hawaii and 125 miles north of Guam.
		By Presidential Proclamation, on November 3, 1986, a territorial trusteeship was terminated and a covenant was established between the United States and the indigenous people of the Northern Marianas.
		The Adult Basic Education Program of the CNMI under the administration of the Northern Marianas College was embodied in the Adult Education Act of 1975 under the former Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Administration.
	literacynet.org /northernmarianas/home.html (411 words)

	Marianas trench - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Marianas trench Marianas trough, or Marianas deep, elongated depression on the Pacific Ocean floor, 210 mi (338 km) SW of Guam.
		A U.S. navy bathyscape reached its bottom in 1960; a 1995 Japanese probe made what is probably the most accurate measurement of its depth.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Marianas trench" at HighBeam.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-marianas.html (238 words)

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