U.S. Samoa Follows
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The Trend!
A seven-man political status commission will be set up in American Samoa to examine all possible alternatives for the terri tory’s political future. Governor Owen Aspinall signed a bill in Samoa’s Legislature in May pro viding SUS2O,OOO for travel and other expenses for the com mission.
Three members of the com mission will be appointed by Governor Aspinall, three others will come from the legislature and one will be appointed by the speaker of the legislature.
Governor Aspinall in May also signed a bill setting up an eight-man economic commission to co-operate with a yet-to-be appointed director of develop ment planning, to plan the territory’s economic growth.