Word: guam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sight, but your 100,000 soulmates on this 30-by-7-mile rock in the Pacific have arms, legs and nerves as tender as yours. And out of mind we'll not be for long if any attempt is made to store the nerve gas on Guam. A howl of protest would be heard from Agana to Washington D.C. And is this how America treats her country cousins who suffered torture and death at the hands of the Japanese in World War II, and who are dying in the jungles of Viet Nam today to preserve the American...
...Guam has been called the window of American democracy in the East. But with the U.S. Navy's present attempts to condemn the most valuable part of the island, upon which the people depend for economic development, and the proposals to store the nerve gas in our backyards, Guam should more accurately be identified as the showplace of American military aggression in the western Pacific...
...seizure of U.S. properties. After an unfortunate initial delay, the U.S. won warm thanks from the Peruvian generals for its effective aid. From the U.S.'s Southern Command in Panama came a 40-man rescue team three days after the quake, and giant Chinook helicopters from the carrier Guam lifted supplies into remote Andean villages that otherwise were completely cut off from the outside world by landslides. Washington also donated $10 million in relief funds...
...Velasco, an army general who seized power in 1968, and had just begun to check inflation and whittle down the budget deficit when the disaster struck, ordered $16 million set aside for relief and reconstruction. A dozen other countries rushed aid-including the U.S., which sent the helicopter carrier Guam, despite Washington's displeasure with Velasco for his seizure of a U.S.-owned oil company. It will take vast sums to repair the effects of a catastrophe that has left 800,000 homeless in a nation of 13 million. Said one official, who estimated the losses at $250 million...
...massive outpouring for the first Moratorium Day last October. Still, the renewed attacks at home on his handling of the war in Asia will be yet another factor for Richard Nixon to consider as he compounds a prescription for U.S. tactics in Indochina. In declaring the Nixon Doctrine, on Guam, he pledged that the U.S. would honor existing guarantees to Asian countries, but made it clear that the nation had no heart for another Viet Nam. The Administration is also committed to press on with Vietnamization of the present conflict. Now Nixon confronts the first real test of both that...