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...force was changed from "Safety" to "Self-Defense." To help with the changeover, the U.S. House of Representatives last week voted to hand over to Japan some $500 million worth of U.S. weapons already in the islands. Next month Japanese troops will replace the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division in Hokkaido, the major Japanese island nearest Russia...
...Andrew D. Bruce, 59, to succeed Walter W. Kemmerer (TIME, May 4, 1953) as president of the University of Houston (see MILESTONES). A graduate of Texas A. & M., Armored Forceman Bruce commanded the 77th Infantry Division in the Pacific during World War II, was the first occupation governor of Hokkaido, later became commandant of the Armed Forces Staff College at Norfolk...
...skies. Japanese diplomats formally asked the U.S. to prevent "foreign military planes" from crossing Japan's frontiers. In a news release, the Japanese warned "the foreign power concerned" to stay away, left no doubt that they were referring to Soviet Russia, whose planes have been flying over northern Hokkaido for months. To the fighter pilots of Major General Delmar Spivey's Japan Air Defense Force went an order: give one warning burst of fire to intruders, then shoot to kill...
Until recently Spivey did not have enough fast planes or radar to issue such an order and make it stick. But ever since the Russians shot down an American B-29 within sight of Hokkaido last fall (TIME, Oct. 20), the Air Force has been stocking Hokkaido with F-86 Sabre jets, F94 night fighters and up-to-date radar. News of any big shift of planes between Soviet bases in the Kurils or on Sakhalin, any significant change in training there-or, more important, any mass flight toward Japan-can now be flashed in seconds to Spivey...
Only two miles of sea separate the top of Japan from Soviet-held territory. Across this narrow, foggy stretch of water last week came sounds of detonations strong enough to make Japanese windowpanes rattle. The sounds might be either construction blasting or artillery practice. Off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, searchlights from Russian submarines or patrol boats have been turned on the homes of the island's farmers from less than a mile offshore. Shipping between Vladivostok and Russian-occupied Sakhalin Island, which dangles like a knife over Hokkaido, is heavy...