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THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday September Pages Is US still an imperialist nation Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service The dispatch of American military forces to the island of St Croix one of the United States Virgin Islands to stop the looting and lawlessness that followed the destruction reaped by Hurricane Hugo is a reminder of how many small but often strategic island ter ritories are still held around the world by the United States All of them together f torn the Caribbean to the South Pacific may not make up enough territory to say the really is the last of the old colonial powers But the fact that the US still holds on to so many of them as we near the end of the 20th century br ings accusations from some local leaders that a benign American imperialism still exists or else why are they not independent Those who did not know the US Virgin Islands have been American territory for more than 70 years they were bought from Denmark in 1917 for a mere million probably believed and quite inaccurately that the quick arrival of US troops and armed US Coast Guard vessels to restore order was just another of the many American military inva sions of an independent Caribbean nation The urge to be independent like most of their neighboring islands is much more pronounced in such US South Pacific territories as American Samoa Guam and the socalled Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands than it is in the tiny US Virgin Islands Most residents of the much larger Puerto Rico a self- governing commonwealth within the United States are satisfied with their status All of the commonwealths Inhabitants are US citizens Despite that apparent benefit though a small but strong in dependence movement has existed in Puerto Rico since It was annex ed from Spain In Puerto Ricos independentistas would like to see the island takes its chances as a new Caribbean nation However the US Virgin Islands with a small population of rely almost totally on the and Puerto Rico for 90 per cent of the islands trade and tourism Last year no fewer than 800000 tourists visited the US Virgin Islands leaving an estimated billion- US in the local economy But in the South Pacific especially in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands composed of the island archipelagoes of the Carolinas Marshall and Marianas quite different issues have aroused local demands for separation DETERIORATION The chief of these has been local claims of continuing environmen tal and human deterioration as a legacy of the now longabandoned US atmospheric atomic bomb tests which were carried out open ly in these islands during the 1950s Then there is the local fear less pronounced in the 1980s than in the 60s and 70s that the some day would want to use the islands as military bases as had each of the three previous colonial masters back to the 18th century Spain Germany and Japan in that order American Samoa which like the US Virgin Islands and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands is a selfgoverning unincorporated territory of the US coming under the Department of the In terior in Washington feels the ef fects of being close to such established independent South Pacific islandnations as Fiji Tonga and former British Samoa which gained its independence in 1962 Historically speaking American Samoa can be called r col onial than any of the other US territories since it became a US possession back in 1899 as part of a classic division of territory by im perial powers That year Britain and Imperial Germany renounced all their claims to what became Samoa Finally there is the tiny and tru ly strategic S island of Guam Though it is geographically one of the Marianas group Guam also has become another unin corporated territory of the US under the US Interior Depart ment During the Vietnam War Guam was the air base for the hundreds of B52 bombers that bombed North Vietnam Before the Second World War Guam was the major US listening post against the Japanese Who ruled the Carolinas Marshalls and Marianas Japan had turned them into major military and naval establishments bases that US forces ultimately captured at tremendous cost Even today with no conceivable enemy around in the South Pacific the US navy and air force still oc cupy about a third of the land space in that tiny island RECYCLING It only pari Please Remember to Recycle This Newspaper THE WORLD ALMANAC DATE BOOK Sept 30 1989 Today is the day of 1989 and the 9th day of autumn TODAYS HISTORY On this day In 1954 the atomicpowered subma rine USS Nautilus was commis sioned at Conn TODAYS Deborah Kerr actress Truman Capote 19241904 novelist Angle Dickinson 1931- actress Johnny Msthia 1035- singer Marilyn McCoo 1943- sing er Deborah Allen singer TODAYS QUOTE Venice Is like eat ing an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go Truman Capote TODAYS MOON Day after new moon Sept 20 TODAYS BARBS BY PHIL PA8TORET A pessimist Is a person who looks on the bright side of things In hopes it will tarnish while being watched 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