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...signing of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, Washington agreed not to "introduce" nuclear weapons into Japan. Two weeks ago, however, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer revealed that the two countries have ever since been living a convenient lie. In an interview with Tokyo's Mainichi Shimbun, Reischauer asserted that U.S. naval vessels carrying nuclear weapons have routinely visited Japanese ports-with Tokyo's tacit approval...
...President but predictably criticized the American tendency toward mayhem. "I pray your injuries are not serious," cabled Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt relayed his "deep horror," and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat his "extreme shock and sorrow." Japan's largest daily, Yomiuri Shimbun, said the attack "proves that violence is deep-rooted in U.S. soil...
Many Japanese are advocating a stronger stand against foreign demands. An editorial in the Tokyo Shimbun, an influential daily, argues that "it has become a fixed pattern that as soon as Japan concedes one issue, the U.S. brings up a fresh one. We cannot tolerate the disgusting threat of retaliation every time a Congressman opens his mouth." Says Economist Kunihiro Takano: "What the Americans are really telling the Japanese is, 'Change your tastes, your attitude and your life-style so you can buy more American goods.' That borders on domestic interference...
...Several thousand men of both regular and regional Vietnamese units with heavy arms are advancing toward Chinese positions," a correspondent for Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun reported from Lang Son. He described Vietnamese trucks with 105-mm. guns rolling north on Highway 1; other vehicles carried troops, weapons, ammunition and fuel toward the border. Meanwhile, under the fire of long-range 130-mm. howitzers, columns of refugees fled south, leaving Lang Son to the troops, security cadres and government officials who teemed around staging areas...
...shortcomings. Mystic sects and pseudoreligious groups exist in this part of the world as well and in worrisome numbers. The Jonestown deaths pose the vital question of whether in our modern way of life our institutions provide a sense of sufficient stability." Commented Tokyo's daily Asahi Shimbun: "The Guyana incident is a ghastly reminder of how fanaticism born of the contradictions of modern society can destroy human beings...