a dependent country; administered by another country under the supervision of the United Nations
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the position of trustee
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Trusteeship \Trus*tee"ship\, n. The office or duty of a trustee.
Palau, with an estimated 15,000 residents living on eight of its 200 islands, is the world's last trusteeship, established in 1947 by the United Nations.
It asks that the court remove the Teamsters leadership, place the union under trusteeship and prohibit the alleged mob figures from any future dealings with the union.
The Security Council voted Saturday to dissolve a 43-year-old U.N. trusteeship over several Pacific island chains that were once a stage for Cold War rivalries.
In June 1986, Local 560 was placed under federal trusteeship after the Justice Department charged in a civil suit that the local had operated under organized crime control for more than a quarter century.
Schaeuble made special mention of the official trusteeship overseeing the privatization of businesses in former East Germany.
Since Mr. Ford's death, the Ford heirs have repeatedly gone to court over issues of trusteeship.
Accordingly, the court has decided to commit additional resources to the trusteeship" by appointing the two men to "carry on the work begun by Mr. Jacobsen."
The United State has been administering Palau affairs under the trusteeship. The candidates also advocate a stronger government role for the island chain's 16 traditional chiefs.
A PLO official said before the meeting that Arafat would explore ways of involving the world body directly in the territories, including a possible trusteeship.
Namibia was under South Africa's control as a trusteeship until U.N. supervised elections were held last November.
It may entail taking full responsibility for Somalia as a UN trusteeship.
Giuliani initially wanted to force Teamsters leaders out of office and put the union under court trusteeship.
The $1.8 million passed from the Housing Ministry to a subsidiary trusteeship of the Jewish National Fund, the ministry's statement said.
"Newcomers represent the revitalization of the political process in this local," said Linda Kaboolian, a fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government who has researched the Local 560 trusteeship for a year.