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...Japan were now equal partners. The original Security Treaty had tied Japan to the U.S. in perpetuity, had entitled the U.S. to "come to Japan's defense" whether or not Japan so desired. The new treaty was limited to ten years, at which point Japan could refuse to renew it, and pledged the U.S. to "consult" with Japan before reacting militarily to a threat to Japanese or Far Eastern security. Implicitly-and by Japanese interpretation-the new treaty gave the Japanese government a veto power over the kind of weapons the U.S. could maintain in Japan as well...
...cities. Fascinated since his student travels abroad by the medieval walled city of Carcassonne in France, he came to the conclusion that what gave it coherence was that every aspect of the city was ordered around a single principle, namely, defense. Today Kahn believes that the modern city will renew itself around the principle of movement. His fertile imagination visualizes the idea in terms of a river. Great expressways would channel traffic around and beneath the city's center, raised like some Venetian island. As docks. Kahn would erect harbor buildings with parking spaces on the lower levels...
Kenya, whence last week African leaders flew off to London to renew their fight for control of the colony. Minimum demands of tough young Tom Mboya, the brains of the African delegation: internal self-government for Kenya's 6,000,000 Africans this year, a common voting roll with universal suffrage, and only a brief transitional tutelage period in which Britons would remain in charge of Kenya's justice, defense and foreign affairs...
...appointment with the President. Within three days the U.S.'s self-imposed, 14-month suspension of nuclear tests was due to expire on its deadline of midnight Dec. 31. The urgent question to be decided that morning: Should the U.S., or should it not, renew the nuclear-test moratorium...
...fate of local amusement-type pinball machines still remains in doubt. The Cambridge Licensing Board's recent announcement that it will not renew pinball licenses applies to the bino-type machine, a gambling type on which money...