Mr. Netanyahu's predecessor, Ehud Olmert, proposed in his talks with Mr. Abbas in 2008 that the holy sites in and around the Old City be administered by an international trusteeship made up of Israel, the Palestinians, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United States.
Political realities make it unlikely that New York State's sole trusteeship will be abolished any time soon.
In 1950, the United Nations set a term of ten years on Italy's trusteeship of Somalia, and in June the Italians make their unreluctant exit.
He understood very clearly the need to make finance subservient to human needs, environmental imperatives and the real economy, and promoted democratic trusteeship as an ownership and management model to achieve it.
"We are transforming the system to make it easier for children and families to access their entitlement of a birth certificate," said Phillip Saliboko, the Chief Executive Officer of the Registration, Insolvency and Trusteeship Agency (RITA), responsible for the initiative.
Williams also made Maria's co-trusteeship — and the not insubstantial stipend that eventually came with it — dependent on Rose's life span.
Mr. Koppes said sole trusteeships may have made sense decades ago, when pension assets were smaller and invested almost entirely in simple investments like bonds.
Count Sforza and the late Ernest Bevin then got together and suggested that a ten-year trusteeship be established for Libya, making Italy responsible for Tripolitania, Britain for Cyrenaica, and France for the Fezzan.
"If I didn't do the trusteeship," he continued, "I might have been in trouble.
Mr. Indyk, who is now head of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, has suggested making the West Bank and Gaza an international trusteeship, with American-led troops in charge of security, but the idea has not taken root among Mr. Bush and his aides.
