Insular Areas Budget Request for Fiscal Year 1989: Oversight Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Insular and International Affairs of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session ... Hearings Held in Washington, DC, February 18, 1988, February 25, 1988

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Page 405 - Covenant to establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America (48 USC 1681 note). (4) "Coast Guard" means the organization established and continued under section 1 of title 14.
Page 606 - The Security Council shall, subject to the provisions of the trusteeship agreements and without prejudice to security considerations, avail itself of the assistance of the Trusteeship Council to perform those functions of the United Nations under the trusteeship system relating to political, economic, social, and educational matters in the strategic areas.
Page 606 - To promote the political, economic, social and educational advancement of the inhabitants of the trust territories, and their progressive development towards self-government or independence as may be appropriate to the particular circumstances of each territory and its peoples and the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned, and as may be provided by the terms of each trusteeship agreement: C.
Page 145 - SEC. 3. (a) Every contract for the construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work in the United States...
Page 652 - With the care, skill, prudence, and diligence under the circumstances then prevailing that a prudent man acting in a like capacity and familiar with such matters would use in the conduct of an enterprise of a like character and with like aims...
Page 503 - October 5, 1983, the presidents of the Republic of Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands endorsed the construction of the proposed nursing school.
Page 635 - The sovereign's immunity from suit exists whatever the character of the proceeding or the source of the right sought to be enforced.
Page 648 - No person dealing with the Trustee shall be bound to see to the application of the purchase money or to inquire into the validity...
Page 606 - Charter, the administering authority shall: 1. foster the development of such political institutions as are suited to the trust territory and shall promote the development of the inhabitants of the trust territory toward self-government or independence...
Page 634 - When the United States creates rights in individuals against itself, it is under no obligation to provide a remedy through the courts.

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