Tosiwo Nakayama and Bethwel Henry petitioned the UN; the Congress of Micronesia was disbanded that year.

What happened

Nakayama of Chuuk and Bethwel Henry of Pohnpei were the leading figures of the Congress of Micronesia, the territory-wide legislature that had met since 1965: Henry was House Speaker from 1966 to 1979 and Nakayama led the Senate for most of the 1970s. In 1979 that Congress gave way to the new FSM Congress, elected in March, which first met on 10 May.