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...return of sovereignty to the motherland. But there will probably not be a repetition of the dancing in the streets or displays of fireworks that accompanied the first reports in late 1969 that the U.S. was getting ready to return political control to Tokyo. Even though most Okinawans welcome the change, they have had time enough for uneasy second thoughts about their island's future. "After all," Okinawan Banker Hiroshi Senaga told TIME Correspondent Frank Iwama, "the younger generation was brought up under U.S. administration, and the older generation knows only the discriminatory policies of Tokyo that made prewar...
Inconveniences. "A very happy solution," said Oregon's Senator Mark O. Hatfield. But to Okinawans, it was no such thing. It is "unforgivable," Okinawan officials wired Nixon last week, "to continue to subject the Okinawan people to dangers of the gas because of internal inconveniences in the U.S." Waving death's-head placards, 5,000 angry Okinawans demonstrated outside the U.S. base...
...right to store nuclear weapons there but retaining the bases, which are vital to the American defense system in the Pacific. Such an agreement will not satisfy Sato's foes at home. Demanding nothing less than the immediate and unconditional return of Okinawa, 146 Japanese and Okinawan leftist intellectuals charged that Sato's trip was a cover-up for a U.S. military buildup on the island...
...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...
...legislative veto has not been invoked directly: Okinawan lawmakers simply do not introduce bills that they feel may be killed. But several officials have been removed in the past, and when Naha in 1956 elected a Communist mayor, the then-High Commissioner forced him out of office...