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...atoll was selected because there is no similar facility in the continental U.S. The Army claims that the incinerator's initial tests have been successful. The plant was designed to burn some 13,000 tons of obsolete chemical munitions and containers removed from Okinawa...
...commercial and other concerns. This has been especially true when it comes to Japan given that the Pentagon looks at Japan as an "an unsinkable aircraft carrier" in the Far East where we have placed premium value on base rights at Camp Zama, Yokosuka, Yokota, Misawa, Iwakuni and throughout Okinawa Prefecture. While not every Japanese is fond of U.S. bases on Japanese soil, the deal has been sweetened by virtually throwing open the U.S. market to Japanese goods...
...Japanese Navy in World War II, the Pacific Ocean has been, in military terms, an American lake. From naval bases in the Aleutian Islands and southward to Subic Bay in the Philippines, 107 U.S. warships and 51 submarines project commanding seapower. Ashore, mostly in South Korea, Japan and Okinawa, 120,000 American troops are poised to deter aggression along the Pacific's western rim. Now, with the Soviet threat waning under the U.S.S.R.'s economic and ideological decay, is that U.S. military presence still necessary...
...Japanese, who take hope from recent negotiations with the Soviets over the Kurile Islands, urged Cheney to keep U.S. pressure on the Kremlin to reduce its military strength in Asia. As for the 50,000 American troops in Japan and its outlying island of Okinawa, Cheney said the U.S. plans to withdraw only about 5,000 over the next three years. The U.S. also wants the Japanese to increase the $2.8 billion they now pay toward the $6 billion annual cost of keeping American forces in Japan...
...know, of course, how this great story finally ended. That is told in a series of place names that have become part of the language: Bataan, Midway, Guadalcanal, Stalingrad, El Alamein, Anzio, Omaha Beach, Bastogne, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Hiroshima. In retrospect, it all seems to have a kind of inevitability, and yet there lingers over each battlefield a faint question. What if rains in Poland had mired the German tanks in mud? What if the French army had then attacked? What...