Word: iwakuni
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...hangout for intelligence agents from various nations. Even though dates there cost up to $100 a night and Oswald took home less pay than that in a month, he began appearing at Atsugi with one of the Queen Bee's prettiest hostesses. When he was assigned temporarily to Iwakuni, a U.S. air base 430 miles from Tokyo, Oswald was seen with an attractive Eurasian woman. "She was much too good-looking for Bugs [Oswald]," said one Marine...
...Japan, the nuclear issue is charged with emotion. Recently, a Japanese Diet member exposed the probable presence of U.S. nuclear weapons at Iwakuni Marine Corps Air Station, ironically only 22 miles south of Hiroshima. The reaction in the Iwakuni area and throughout Japan was strong--but none stronger than that of the A-Bomb victims...
...want the nuclear weapons removed from Iwakuni and we want them destroyed. If they are just taken out of out country, they will be sent to Thailand or Kores and used for oppressing the people there...
Judging from the mixed success of last week's performances in Japan, the authorities may have been overestimating the F.T.A.'s appeal. In Iwakuni, one-third of the G.l.s in a large gymnasium walked out before the show was over, apparently bored. The Japanese seemed somewhat disenchanted by Jane's transformation, as one weekly put it, "from a scandal actress to a pacifist." One fan who had expected to see Barbarella onstage lamented: "She looks too undistinguished and sounds too shrill...
...Akira's father found him a bride. Though it was an arranged marriage, Akira seemed pleased with his pretty, 19-year-old Chieko, and she with him. They delayed their honeymoon because they did not have enough money. One day last week, Emoto announced gaily: "My uncle in Iwakuni wants us to go up there for our honeymoon, and he has sent me the tickets...