Word: ryukyu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mile-long island in the East China Sea. Early this week, in the gardens of the Imperial Palace, Vice President Spiro Agnew is to read a presidential proclamation, signed by Richard Nixon, that will end the U.S. military occupation of Okinawa and 140 other islands of the Ryukyu chain. For both nations this reversion to Japanese control will resolve what Agnew describes as "the last major issue...