Word: pacificism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hardly anyone in Washington or Tokyo believes the current furor will lead to the closing of the bases. They are still important for Japan's defense, especially given tensions with North Korea and China, as well as for the credibility of the U.S. security commitment to Asia. In 1991 U.S...
For Okinawans, the special treatment afforded U.S. service members is symbolic of a deeper problem. The bases represent the latest face of the hard fate that Okinawa has endured since the once independent kingdom, the heart of the Ryukyu island chain, was annexed by Japan in 1879. The Japanese then...
Are there courses which teach indigenous intellectual traditions at Harvard, are there any native Americans on the faculty? No. The only place our fine art traditions are presented is at the Peabody Museum and in the anthropology department. It is an ironic situation. I implore Harvard to continue funding the...
Neither his admirers nor his detractors were surprised by Holbrooke's diplomatic coup. In terms both camps could embrace, a State Department colleague says, "Dick is very abrasive and arrogant, but he is also a brilliant conceptualizer and tactician." Those qualities characterize Holbrooke's career both in and out of...
Nearing 1 a.m., Sunday, Sept. 3., just beyond the French navy's 12-mile exclusion zone at Mururoa, the South Pacific atoll where France plans to test nuclear bombs. Light wind. Half-moon. Waves from a far-off storm swell under La Rebaude, a broken-engined, radio-dead ketch owned...