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| Micronesia had come a long way since the chartering of the early district legislatures. The legislatures, like Palau's shown here, offered people some political say in their affairs, but the flags in the background testified to where real authority lay. Nearly thirty years passed before islanders could elect their own chief executive. |
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(photo from TT Archives, Univ. of Hawaii Library)