Word: okinawa
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Transferred to the First Naval District Headquarters in Boston-"the elephant's graveyard," as Navy line officers call it-Alexander will be replaced by Captain Joseph E. Snyder Jr., 43, a veteran of Leyte Gulf and Okinawa's Buckner Bay. No other heads are likely to roll, but many Navymen must be shaking theirs over the fall of Dick Alexander...
Specifically, the Premier came to the U.S. to discuss America's retention of Okinawa and the Bonin Islands, both of which were Japanese possessions before World War II, and have remained persistently sticky political issues in Tokyo. Sato won a promise that the Bonins would be returned, probably within a year, and that the status of Okinawa would be studied. In return, he assured Lyndon Johnson of his government's firm support for the U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia...
...more sensitive question of Okinawa, Sato received a promise of continuing consultations on the island's future reversion to Japan. This prospect has been clouded by the war, since Okinawa is America's major Western Pacific base, and a key way station for heavy bombers and troops headed for Viet Nam. The sooner the war in South east Asia ends, the sooner Japan will regain administrative control of Okinawa and the Ryukyu chain of which it is a part. With that in mind, perhaps, Sato offered last week to serve as best he could as a "third party...
...coast. Two cruisers and five destroyers turned broadside to begin the softening-up bombardment of the shore line in the heaviest concentration of naval gunfire since the Korean War, while the amphibious assault boats swarmed in. Waves of troop-packed helicopters rose from the deck of the carrier Okinawa. The amphibious troops and their tanks, tractors and guns came ashore, meeting with little resistance. For the heliborne assault forces, it was another story...
...calisthenics when, over breakfast in his distinctly unpretentious colonial house in the St. Louis suburb of Ladue, he reads papers and reaches decisions. At the plant, amid the wail of Phantoms taking off to fly directly to Viet Nam (with the help of in-flight refueling and an Okinawa stop), he operates out of a spacious but spartan corner office, with a scuffed carpet and hand-me-down, imitation-leather chairs...