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...seeking out their Western counterparts for private chats to deliver a similar assessment. The Nixon Administration has made some sensible and overdue adjustments of U.S. foreign commitments. But in Moscow's view, the scale-down in South Viet Nam, the troop withdrawals from South Korea, the return of Okinawa to Japan are all indications of growing American isolationism and decline. Accordingly, the Russians are making every effort to convince Western Europeans that Washington is no longer a reliable ally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Top Dogs and Underdogs | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

...Viet Nam, it has already begun to cut one-third of its 64,000 troops in South Korea. Reductions in the 285,000-man force stationed with NATO, mainly in West Germany, are in the offing. In a concession to Japan, the U.S. decided last week to stop using Okinawa as a B-52 base. It is withdrawing about 10,000 of its 39,000 military personnel, mostly airmen, from Thailand. The active-duty strength of the U.S. Army will be reduced by three divisions next June. The Navy is in the process of decommissioning hundreds of ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Mid East: Search for Stability | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

...TIME Essay [Aug. 10] tends to underestimate the tenacity of the Japanese by applying Occidental standards of defeat to the Oriental principles of war. Tarawa, with its six survivors of 4,000; Okinawa, with its kamikaze, bear true testimony to the prevalent fanaticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 31, 1970 | 8/31/1970 | See Source »

...problem is what to do with the weapons. The U.S. has facilities in Maryland and Colorado where chemical munitions can be safely disassembled and detoxified or incinerated. But Okinawa lacks such facilities-and wants none. Moreover, the gases cannot be dumped into the sea; if they escaped their containers, cubic miles of ocean might be contaminated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Weapons Nobody Wants | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

...issue that has become a touchstone of the new protectionism: whether or not the U.S. should impose quotas on imports of Japanese textiles. The question has become charged with emotion on both sides of the Pacific, and ranks with the tug of war over the return of Okinawa to Japan as the worst diplomatic impasse between the two countries in recent years. Last month Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, who is hardly known as a protectionist, introduced a bill designed to write import quotas into law. It would roll back imports of textiles to average 1967-68 levels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Comeback for Protectionism | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

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