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...Nixon-Sato agreement also commits Japan to partial defense responsibility for Asia, with U.S. nuclear power serving as "the spear" and Japanese manpower as "the shield," in the words of Self-Defense Agency Director Yasuhiro Nakasone. Though the Japanese constitution specifically prohibits the country from developing offensive capabilities, Japan has been steadily building up the top nonnuclear military force in Asia, under pressure from the U.S. By 1975, it is scheduled to have a 286,000-man army and an air force with 900 modern warplanes...
...think Medeiros is trying to avoid the issue," Griffin said last night. "He's just surrounded by a lot of people who like to shield him from unnecessary contact, and I doubt if he's had a chance to really look at the letter...
...question has even larger implications. The fact is that Australia is approaching a watershed as profound as the moment at the beginning of the Pacific war when the Japanese had seized Singapore and stripped the country of its British defense shield. Australia's late Prime Minister John Curtin at that time declared that his country would henceforth look to the U.S. for its security, "free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship" with Britain. Today the U.S. is engaged in extricating itself from Indochina and is unlikely to make new commitments in Southeast Asia...
...Communists took over that country in 1949. The enmity was only heightened by China's intervention in the Korean War. Congressional leaders-particularly Republicans-constructed a policy of containment through generous military and economic aid to Chiang Kai-shek's anti-Communist regime and security commitments to shield Taiwan and its satellite islands from mainland control. In the 1950s, election campaigns were fought on a lingering charge that...
...Valdez is a Mexican constable who matches his shield: battered and tarnished. The decades of self-deprecation seem a fair resume of his character. Yet when a gunrunner humiliates him to the limits of dignity, the deputy discovers the force that has been dormant in his shield and himself. He announces a vendetta with a terse message-"Valdez is coming"-and the shabby film ignites as he begins a journey to prove himself to himself. Why? Because Valdez is played by Burt Lancaster, 57, who owns a property not available to the Now generation of film actors: a face...