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With self-government in 1978 came the political breakup of what used to be the Trust Territory.   Tosiwo Nakayama and Bethwel Henry, presiding officers of the Congress of Micronesia, attended the inauguration of the first governor of the Marianas in January 1978.  By the end of that year, the Congress of Micronesia was dissolved.
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(photo from TT Archives, Univ. of Hawaii Library)