Word: jima
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quiet the nation. In the '50s the flag remained unassailable, the military beyond challenge. After all, only a few years before, another group of boys had gone off to war and had returned covered with honor and rewards. The movies advertised the glories of The Sands of Iwo Jima and Battleground. Who were a bunch of 18-year-olds to dispute their elders on the draft board...
...Egypt, where only seven years ago Gamal Abdel Nasser unleashed virulent anti-Americanism by falsely charging that U.S. planes had wiped out his air force, the U.S. helicopter carrier Iwo Jima placidly anchored off Port Said to begin the minesweeping of the Suez Canal. Meanwhile, the Egyptian government prepared two former palaces of King Farouk for a possible state visit by President Nixon as early as some time...
Riding at anchor six miles off Egypt's war-battered Port Said was a strange sight-the 18,300-ton U.S. helicopter carrier Iwo Jima. For nearly two decades, the warships of America's Sixth Fleet have been regarded by Egypt as unfriendly and unwanted. But now the U.S. Navy is playing a major role in helping the Egyptians clear the Suez Canal of the explosives and wreckage that have blocked it since the Six-Day War of 1967. TIME's Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn visited the Iwo Jima last week. His report...
...bigger, or at least more zealous. Last year about 6,000 Japanese toured World War II battlegrounds. A Pan Am jumbo jet last month brought 300 pilgrims home from Saipan, Guam and Tinian; another 400 will soon be leaving on a cruise ship for the burning sands of Iwo Jima, where no fewer than 20,000 Imperial troops died in combat. Later this year, other battleground pilgrims will visit Mindanao, Leyte, New Guinea and even Siberia...
...summer grasses are especially lush where it is always summertime: Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Tinian, Luzon, Iwo Jima-World War II battle sites where hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers died in a losing cause. But rather than rely on troubadours to describe the battlegrounds, many Japanese are making the grim journey to these islands in the sun. Not incidentally they have spawned a lucrative sideline for Japan's booming tourist industry-senseki jumpai, or battlefield pilgrimages...