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Give the Mic:ronesians a progressively
increasing share in the administrative services
in the territory...
Develop their participation in government .

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Give due recognition to the customs of the

Micronesians ..

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Promote the economic advancement and selfsufficiency of the inhabitants.
Improve the means of transportation and
communciation ...
Promote ..

. social advancement.

Protect the health of the Micronesians

..

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Promote the educational advancement of the
Micronesians.
The juridical status of the Trusteeship Agreement has
been the subject of litigation in the federal courts three
times.

In 1958 the United States District Court for the

District of Columbia, in an action brought by Dr. Linus
Pauling and Dwight Heine, refused to enjoin the Hardtack
series of nuclear weapons tests at Enewetak.

Pauling and

Heine argued that the detonation of the nuclear weapons would
"produce radiation or radioactive nuclei

[which] will inflict

serious genetic and somatic injuries upon [the] plaintiffs
and the population of the world in general,

generations.”

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including unborn

Pauling v. McElroy, 164 F. Supp.

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