Word: okinawa
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...years since U.S. troops wrested Okinawa from Japan at a cost of 12,500 American lives, the 60-mile-long island in the East China Sea has been built up as the Pentagon's "Keystone of the Pacific," its most vital staging area for operations from Korea to Viet Nam. A bustling bastion just 500 miles southeast of Shanghai, it is honeycombed with 91 military installations accommodating 45,000 U.S. troops, It is also, however, a growing threat to harmonious U.S.-Japanese relations. A quarter-century after the war, the continued rule of 1,000,000 citizens of Okinawa...
...issue against the pro-U.S. government of Premier Eisaku Sato. Last week the U.S. approached the difficult decision. As Japan's Foreign Minister visited the White House to open formal talks on reversion, the Nixon Administration let it be known that it will soon move to return Okinawa and the other Ryukyus to Japanese control...
...might consider scaling down its nuclear presence on Okinawa. This presence alarms not only China but also Japan, which has residual sovereignty over the Ryu-kyus. Alleged U.S. "colonial" rule there feeds Peking propaganda and incites those Japanese who demand both the return of the islands and the abolition of U.S. bases in Japan. Such a scale-down might be strategically risky, but the U.S. could compensate in part by relying on the deterrent of its submarine-borne Polaris and forthcoming Poseidon nuclear missiles...
...Except for Berlin, Okinawa stands as the last occupied territory of World...
...long as the U.S. commitment to Asian security remains strong, any withdrawal from Okinawa seems a dubious prospect. Those ugly black B-52s will probably keep on rolling off Okinawan runways toward targets in Viet Nam, or rest poised to defend Taiwan, South Korea and Japan should the need arise...