Word: okinawa
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...Power Squadrons" [Feb. 2]. The U.S. Power Squadrons is not related to the Coast Guard. It is an independent organization whose sole mission is to teach small-boat handling, free of charge, to anyone willing to attend its classes. Comprised of 369 squadrons located throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico, Okinawa, Hawaii, etc., it reaches some 70,000 students each year...
Died. General LeRoy P. Hunt, 75, leader of the first U.S. Marine assault against Japan on Guadalcanal in August 1942, and assistant commander of the 2nd Marine Division in the Pacific campaign's last great battle on Okinawa in June 1945; of an apparent heart attack; in San Francisco...
Transferred to the First Naval District Headquarters in Boston-"the elephant's graveyard," as Navy line officers call it-Alexander will be replaced by Captain Joseph E. Snyder Jr., 43, a veteran of Leyte Gulf and Okinawa's Buckner Bay. No other heads are likely to roll, but many Navymen must be shaking theirs over the fall of Dick Alexander...
Specifically, the Premier came to the U.S. to discuss America's retention of Okinawa and the Bonin Islands, both of which were Japanese possessions before World War II, and have remained persistently sticky political issues in Tokyo. Sato won a promise that the Bonins would be returned, probably within a year, and that the status of Okinawa would be studied. In return, he assured Lyndon Johnson of his government's firm support for the U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia...
...more sensitive question of Okinawa, Sato received a promise of continuing consultations on the island's future reversion to Japan. This prospect has been clouded by the war, since Okinawa is America's major Western Pacific base, and a key way station for heavy bombers and troops headed for Viet Nam. The sooner the war in South east Asia ends, the sooner Japan will regain administrative control of Okinawa and the Ryukyu chain of which it is a part. With that in mind, perhaps, Sato offered last week to serve as best he could as a "third party...