Word: guam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order, in Air Force lingo, was "five by five" (loud and clear) to clobber the enemy's homeland as never before. The military was invited to hit targets previously off limits around Hanoi and Haiphong. From Guam and Thailand they came, wave after wave of green-and-brown aerial dreadnoughts. About 100 B-52s, flying in "cells" of three, were being used round the clock, supplemented by F-4 Phantoms, F-111s, and naval fighter-bombers from aircraft carriers. The missions reminded aviators of the last months of World War II in Europe, when bombers prowled the sky striking...
Shoichi Yokoi, 57, the Japanese Imperial Army corporal who only last January emerged from his World War II hiding place in the jungle of Guam, found the contemporary world rather unsettling. Modern women, particularly, struck him as "monsters" who "screech like apes." Now, apparently, he has found an old-fashioned girl to marry: Mihoko Hatashin, 44, a war widow. Said Mihoko: "We can now communicate with each other by eyes, though we don't talk to each other much." The couple's expected honeymoon site: Guam...
...with his brother-in-law. (Never married, he has no other close relative.) With part of the $80,000 he has received from the government and from well-wishers, he has bought land and plans to build a house. He hopes to write his memoirs of the Battle of Guam and visit the families of his dead comrades-in-arms. "Then I might be able to settle down and think seriously about what to do with the rest of my life...
...hero, other glamorous figures (the Olympic gymnasts, among others) have since dethroned him. Worst of all, his neighbors have begun to cool toward him. Explains one friend: "Quite a few people have been wondering aloud why he didn't commit hara-kiri like a good soldier when Guam fell." Besides, "people are disgusted because he looks down on them disdainfully and seems convinced that nobody else suffered during...
...confidence, there was also evidence of a deeper restiveness, a persistent undercurrent of malaise. The war remains. Last week the last American ground combat unit was deactivated in Viet Nam, yet more than 100,000 U.S. military men were still pursuing the war from the South China Sea and Guam and Thailand. The bombing was heavier than ever...