Word: controls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come under heavy Red Guard fire over the past three years, and analysts believe that Mao, despite Chou's attempts to protect them, decided that they were dispensable. In general, the Politburo now seems divided into three main groups: the Mao-Lin section (twelve members), which retains control; the People's Liberation Army segment (six members), which mistrusts Lin because he espoused the extremism and instability of the Cultural Revolution; and the so-called Pragmatists, which now encompasses only Chou and Li Hsien-nien. The key factor in the changes is the rise to power of military leaders...
...Okinawans stared at the television monitors in a Tokyo TV studio. Across the screen flashed scenes of Japanese student rioters surging through the Ginza area, hurling Molotov cocktails, jamming auto and rail traffic and stoning every cop in sight. Police kept the 8,000 demonstrators under a degree of control with the generous use of throat-clogging tear-gas grenades and high-pressure water hosings. In the process, some 160 people were injured and 900 students were seized...
...Naha, Okinawans held demonstrations too, but of a far more purposeful and peaceful nature. In Naha, about 20,000 showed up to hear Chief Executive Chobyo Yara and Shinei Kyan, head of the Council for the Return of Okinawa Prefecture to the Fatherland, demand that Okinawa revert to Japanese control. "The more people shout," said Kyan, "the stronger will be public opinion for our goal." Shouting is hardly needed to convince most Okinawans: Yara was elected last November on a platform demanding fukki, or immediate reversion. Yara has no illusions, however, about the problems that fukki may bring...
...curlers. In Koza, the nearest large town to the Kadena base, there are numerous bars, such as the Night Queen, Cabaret Aloha and U.S. Club, and few nights go by without at least one fistfight involving overloaded Americans and Okinawans. Not quite as visible, but equally pervasive, is American control of Okinawan affairs. Except for Berlin, Okinawa stands as the last occupied territory of World...
Talks in Washington. Officially, the U.S. position is that while Okinawa is rightfully and eventually Japan's, the is land's strategic location makes continuing U.S. control necessary for some time to come. Reversion to Japan would cut severely into its usefulness, since Sato has been forced by heavy domestic pressures to maintain that the tough strictures on U.S. bases in Japan would also apply to Okinawa.* This fall, when Sato meets Richard Nixon in Washington, he is expected to hold to that uncompromising stand...