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This task entails a willed return to innocence, to the raw emotions of an 18-year-old boy as he says goodbye to his father at the Minneapolis train station and sets off on an odyssey that will take him, in carefully prearranged steps, to bombing raids over Okinawa. Along the way, the provincial Midwesterner discovers unfamiliar places in his native land: Denton, Texas; Athens, Ga.; Memphis and air stations scattered along the coasts of Florida and California. He and the friends he acquires learn to fly planes, the machines and the maneuvers growing increasingly complex: "Sometimes I had secret...
North briefly left Quantico in 1973 to supervise jungle training in Okinawa. Once again, he never let up, working long hours and seven-day weeks. His wife was not with him, and toward the end of his tour, the strain seemed to trigger a depression. He voluntarily checked himself into Bethesda Naval Hospital for mental exhaustion and stayed three weeks. North has never spoken of the experience, and it was subsequently expunged from his record. When he was released, he was pronounced "fit for duty." North was helped through this trying period in his marriage by the works...
...Marine Corps confirmed that North was indeed hospitalized voluntarily between Dec. 16, 1974, and Jan. 7, 1975. That would be shortly after then Captain North, 31, returned to the U.S. from a brief tour in command of a Marine company on Okinawa. The Corps would not disclose the diagnosis; it referred all such questions to North, and these days the former NSC aide is not responding to any queries about anything. The Marines' statement did say North had been pronounced "fit for duty" on discharge, and "a review of ((his)) medical record . . . has failed to show any reason...
...fables. The P.G.A. Tour believed Palmer's feat to be unique, though Chi Chi Rodriguez claimed as many as five in six weeks. Miller Barber said, "Oh sure, I've won four or five automobiles over the years." Billy Casper was undecided whether his best was in Okinawa, where all Japan carried him off on its shoulders, or Boise, when he skipped the ball over a lake to entertain Lawrence Welk...
...L.D.P. candidates then hit the campaign trail with a vengeance. Like other Liberal Democratic leaders, the 68-year-old Prime Minister vigorously sought out Japanese voters from the northernmost island of Hokkaido to the southernmost archipelago of Okinawa. Outflanked and unprepared for the L.D.P. onslaught, the opposition got off to a slow start and never recovered. The Socialists, long the ruling party's most serious adversary, lost 25 seats in the lower house, bringing their total down to 86. The moderate Democratic Socialists did not fare much better, dropping sharply, from 37 seats to 26. The centrist, Buddhist-oriented Clean...