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Specifically, the Premier came to the U.S. to discuss America's retention of Okinawa and the Bonin Islands, both of which were Japanese possessions before World War II, and have remained persistently sticky political issues in Tokyo. Sato won a promise that the Bonins would be returned, probably within a year, and that the status of Okinawa would be studied. In return, he assured Lyndon Johnson of his government's firm support for the U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia...
Savory Settlement. The Bonin Islands, which include the bloody battleground of Iwo Jima where 21,000 Japanese and 4,189 American Marines died in early 1945, is a craggy archipelago of little modern-day strategic value, though it is just 700 miles southeast of Japan. Originally settled by 19th century seamen, including two New Englanders (many islanders still bear such old American names as Savory, Webb and Robinson), the islands are currently used by the U.S. only for a small naval and weather station, whose total complement is no more than...
...Bonin placed second to Dicksie in sialom and won the jumping event when Dicksie took a bad fall on an 89 foot jump which fell three feet short of Barbara Cooper's 92 foot record...
...girls' slalom, Dicksie Ann Hoyt could very well break a world record in her class. She has run through the course at 34 m.p.h. with 18 feet off, picking up five of six possible points. She will, however, be hard pressed by Suzanne and Barbara Bonin...
...reassurances that Japan maintains "residual sovereignty" over the American-occupied Bonin and Ryukyus Islands, including Okinawa; i.e., it will eventually get them back, but not until conditions "of threat and tension" abate in the Far East...