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...might be well to leave Japan unfettered to use its ability to supply the needs of the old "co-prosperity sphere" nations. American dominance in Asia is diminishing, and President Nixon's declaration at Guam portends the phasing out of deep involvement by the U.S. here. To lead in Asia again won't be a strange role for Japan, and the Japanese trader with his attache case might still furnish the ultimate victory where kamikaze pilots hit a blank wall...
Instead, the "Nixon Doctrine" recognizes that "others now have the ability and responsibility to deal with local disputes which once might have required our intervention." Echoing his Guam declaration, the President says: "The United States will participate in the defense and development of allies, but ... America cannot-and will not -conceive all the plans, design all the programs, execute all the decisions and undertake all the defense of the free nations of the world...
While Nixon said that Agnew would be "prepared to discuss bilateral matters" with heads of state, the Vice President is expected to reiterate the so-called "Nixon doctrine" enunciated by the President last July in Guam. At that time, the President promised to respect existing treaties and to continue aid, but he described a lower U.S. profile in Asia-with no more Viet Nams. "Most of Agnew's time will be spent listening," one aide confessed. "On his first trip, it would be a little presumptuous for him to be wheeling and dealing...
...House subcommittee on the draft. He unfired the paper and handed it to a Selective Service representative who announced the date and pasted it on a display board. The following capsules were drawn by members of the Selective Service System's youth advisory council- one representative of each state, Guam, New York City, and the District of Columbia...
...thorns suddenly began proliferating in the South Pacific a decade ago. Since then it has laid waste to 100 sq. mi. of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest and most impressive collection of underwater coral formations. It has also destroyed nearly 22 miles of Guam's coral barrier. Marine biologists report similar starfish damage off Saipan, Fiji and the western Solomons. In only five years, says Oceanographer R. D. Gaul of San Diego's Westinghouse Ocean Research Laboratory, the starfish can destroy a coral atoll that may have taken thousands of years...