Guam Flag Detail
Guam Background:
"Guam
was ceded to the US by Spain in 1898. Captured by the Japanese in 1941,
it was retaken by the US three years later. The military installation on
the island is one of the most strategically important US bases in the Pacific.
"
-Factbook
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GUAM News:
20080503
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 Barack
Obama -  Hillary
Clinton -  Gas
-  Politics
-  2008
Election -  New
York -  Illinois
-  Indiana
-  North
Carolina -  US
- Guam
- "Obama
rips Clinton's gas tax plan." ... "Broadening his
attack, [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate and Illinois Senator]
Sen. Barack Obama said Saturday that [2008 Election Democratic Presidential
Candidate and New York Senator] Sen. Hillary Clinton's support for a summertime
break from the federal gasoline tax symbolizes a candidacy consisting of
"phony ideas, calculated to win elections instead of actually solving problems.""
... "Locked in a Democratic presidential race for the ages, Clinton and
Obama campaigned across Indiana and North Carolina at the same time they
competed in Guam's caucuses and added to their convention delegate totals
in several states." ... "In all, four delegates were at stake in Guam half
a world away from the U.S. [United States] mainland. But given the closeness
of the race, both candidates made an effort to win."
-CNN
20050513
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- "Pentagon
recommends closing 33 major bases, cutting 29,000 jobs."
... "The Pentagon on Friday announced 33 major military bases throughout
the United States should be closed and hundreds of other smaller institutions
either shut down or their staffs and missions substantially trimmed, part
of an overall plan to save nearly $49 billion in the next 20 years." ...
"The proposed reductions throughout the country - and at U.S. bases in
Germany, South Korea, Guam and Puerto Rico - will now be reviewed by an
independent commission and must be approved by President Bush by October.
They include moving the existing Walter Reed Army Medical Center from Washington
[DC] to Maryland." ... "Pentagon officials said the savings would accrue
through reduction of some activities and the combination of others at the
nation's 318 major military bases and hundreds of smaller ones. But the
plan also calls for substantially expanding the size of some of the nation's
largest military installations." -By Stephen J. Hedges
and Aamer Madhani
-ChicagoTribune
via -KansasCity.com
20031229
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"Sick
cow's meat may have gone to 8 states." ... "Meat
from a Holstein sick with mad cow disease could have reached retail markets
in eight states and one territory, but poses no health risk, Agriculture
Department officials said yesterday." ... "Dr. Kenneth Petersen, an Agriculture
Department veterinarian, said investigators have determined that some of
the meat from the diseased dairy cow slaughtered Dec. 9 in Washington state
could have gone to Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, and Guam. Earlier, officials
had said most of the meat went to Washington and Oregon, with lesser amounts
to California and Nevada, for distribution to consumers." -By
Emily Gersema -AP
via -Boston/Globe
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Guam Flag
Guam Flag Detail
"Flag Description: territorial flag is dark blue with
a narrow red border on all four sides; centered is a red-bordered, pointed,
vertical ellipse containing a beach scene, outrigger canoe with sail, and
a palm tree with the word GUAM superimposed in bold red letters; US flag
is the national flag "
-Factbook
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