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                  Background: Under US administration as part of the UN
                  Trust Territory of the Pacific, the people of the Northern
                  Mariana Islands decided in the 1970s not to seek independence
                  but instead to forge closer links with the US. Negotiations
                  for territorial status began in 1972. A covenant to establish
                  a commonwealth in political union with the US was approved in
                  1975. A new government and constitution went into effect in
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