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...strictly limited. Recently the Defense Department suggested that nuclear weapons to be banned from Okinawa when it reverts to Japanese control might be transferred to Taiwan; other Washington officials dismissed this idea as politically impractical and militarily unnecessary. If required, these weapons could more readily be shifted to Guam...
...White House line is that Agnew is carrying a message of good will as well as an "explanation of the Nixon foreign policy." That should leave ample time for golf: enroute to South Korea, Agnew toured the course in Guam. He plans a "logistics" stay in Singapore, whose Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew is an ardent golfer...
...There are, in fact, quite a few of them. Last week the Defense and State departments jointly proposed to the White House that hundreds of nuclear bombs, ground-to-ground rockets, atomic land mines and depth charges, air-to-air missiles and surface-to-air missiles be moved to Guam, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines and the U.S. American spokesmen insist that any reintroduction of such weapons to Okinawa will require Japanese approval. But the treaty implies that Japan would be obliged to grant such approval if the security of the Republic of Korea or Taiwan was threatened...
GORDON ELLIOTT Agana, Guam...
...fact, many of the proposals that White House officials have so casually referred to as neo-isolationist no more deserve that description than does the Nixon Doctrine. First enunciated by the President at Guam in July 1969, it was a major effort to rethink U.S. world policy and lower the American profile abroad. Quite rightly, Historian Manfred Jonas argues that applying the term isolationist to contemporary Senators tends to confuse rather than illuminate their stance. "They earnestly believe that there are limits to America's power," he writes in Isolationism in America, "and that to overstep these limits means...