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...Washington treaty not directly related to NATO. Greece could break the treaty, though at week's end, it had given no indication that it would do so. Loss of the sites would deprive America of its antisubmarine warfare base and Sixth Fleet resupply facilities at Crete's Suda Bay (described by one U.S. officer as "one of the best natural harbors in the world"). It would also mean giving up bases on Crete and near the Bulgarian border, where tactical nuclear warheads are stockpiled...
Just Crazy. The dakkochan is the brainchild of Yoshihiro Suda, 27, planning chief for Japan's toymaking Tsukudaya Co. Last February Suda began experimenting with a U.S. made plastic-and-cardboard eye that appears to wink whenever the angle at which light hits it is changed. Suda placed the come-hither eye in a 12-in. doll made of black sheet plastic inflated with air. Besides its stubby, clinging arms, the dakkochan boasts ring-shaped ears, a red doughnut mouth and a plastic grass skirt. Girl dakkochans can be told from boy dakkochans by the fact that the girls...
...first Suda was not too optimistic about the sales of his doll. Today, with a raging boom on his hands, he says: "The whole thing is crazy." But Japanese intellectuals, who can be pretty crazy themselves, have been quick to discover social significance in the dakkochan's black skin. Citing the growing popularity of Negro jazz. Artist Setsu Nagasawa argues that "a Negro culture wave seems to be sweeping Japanese youth." Novelist Tensei Kawano, who has featured Negroes in four books, asserts: "We of the younger generation are outcasts from politics and society. In a way we are like...
...night of Oct. 29, when Israel attacked Egypt, the Sixth Fleet was busy with a complex landing exercise in Suda Bay, Crete. It speedily reboarded its marines and beached equipment overnight and headed east. Soon its destroyer groups and attack transports were slipping into Haifa, Gaza and Alexandria to pick up U.S. citizens and U.N. workers while the sleek grey carriers maneuvered in battle formations below the horizon. At one point, combat-ready marines were all set to storm through to Cairo just in case the Egyptians tried to prevent Americans from leaving, but the marines relaxed when the Egyptians...
Item: Thousands of Suda nese troops, Negroes from southern provinces, mutinied against their Arab officers from the north...