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...about 51, a University of Utah psychology graduate who became a Hughes favorite one day in the 1950s by filling in when the master's regular movie projectionist showed up drunk. Eckersley has seven children and is an energetic tennis player despite having suffered a broken back on Okinawa in the World War II Navy. In 1972 he was charged by Canadian authorities with stock fraud in connection with a mining venture. The case was never brought to trial, but Eckersley's standing in the Hughes empire declined...
...functions of labor and production in the economy. During the Depression, he advised F.D.R. on unemployment policies and later helped set up the Social Security system. After serving in the Marines during World War II (he lost the use of his left arm when hit by enemy fire on Okinawa), Douglas traveled to Washington in 1949 as the junior Senator from Illinois. Many of the causes he campaigned for-civil rights, truth in lending, tax reform, Medicaid, campaign finance reform-have since become law. His steadfast support of the Viet Nam War contributed to his defeat by Republican Charles Percy...
...Cannon, 75, retired Army lieutenant general, who served as chief of staff to General Joseph Stilwell in the China-Burma-India theater from 1943 to 1945 and, immediately following the war, commanded a task force that disarmed the Japanese forces and destroyed their war materiel on the islands between Okinawa and Formosa; of a heart attack; in Wilton, Conn...
Official U.S. statements were quickly followed by some ominous military moves. U.S. military personnel on leave in South Korea were ordered back to their posts, where they went on "increased alert status." A squadron of F-4s (18 to 24 planes) was dispatched from Kadena, Okinawa, to Korea; so was a squadron of F-111s from Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho; so was the carrier Midway from its position off Japan. Still, there was no indication whether the U.S. was preparing a retaliatory move or simply beefing up its strength in anticipation of more assaults by the North...
...scant six feet of space separated Japanese Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko from tragedy. The first members of the royal family to visit Okinawa in 54 years, Akihito and Michiko had stopped to place a wreath at a World War II memorial when a helmeted attacker tossed a Molotov cocktail that landed two yards from their feet. Miraculously unhurt, the couple retreated to their car while police arrested two radical students for the firebombing. Okinawa was the scene of 187,000 Japanese deaths during World War II, and last week's attack served as a grim reminder...