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Asst. Atty. Gen. Robert M. Bonin, who investigated the case, said yesterday that there doesn't appear to be evidence of bad faith or breach of trust on the part of Harvard...
This year, Tokyoites have had still more reminders that they are, in effect, sitting on a volcano. Mount Asama, 85 miles northwest of Tokyo, literally blew its top in February. Three months later, there was an upheaval in the Pacific seabed that lifted part of the bottom of the Bonin Trench an astonishing 6,000 ft., forming a new volcano north of Iwo Jima. In June came a major quake in Hokkaido, though it caused no deaths...
...YEARS AS PREMIER: "What worries me is that some people seem to think of my eight years as Premier as eight years of dictatorship. But I think we have done well in following a policy of peace. All this, however-our economic growth, the return of Okinawa and the Bonin Islands-we owe to our good relations with the U.S. With the Soviets, we have to have arguments even over such things as salmon fishing. My greatest regret is that our opposition has never understood this...
...atop Suribachi, with the U.S. flag flying above it. Now the flag has been lowered as a concession to Japanese sensibilities, and in its place a copper flag has been raised. When a treaty is signed this week or next, the U.S. will officially return to the Japanese the Bonin and Volcano Islands, of which Iwo Jima is one, and two other Pacific islands...
Most of the 7,000 Japanese colonists on the Bonins, which supplied Japan with fish and many of its winter vegetables, were evacuated during the war, when the large Bonins were turned into a part of Japan's island defense system. After the U.S. took them over, it made them and the Ryukyu chain (including Okinawa) bases for air and naval installations. While Okinawa has since become the major U.S. military base in the Western Pacific, the Bonin area installations are now only three small stations and a complement of only 75 men. Last November, as an omiyage (gift...