Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Steam? The most sanguine Administration assessment came from Spiro Agnew-not exactly a disinterested observer. After participating in Tokyo ceremonies that formally returned Okinawa to Japanese control, the Vice President paid a three-hour visit to Saigon. Back in Washington, he briefed President Nixon on his trip, then told newsmen that Nixon's actions had reduced Communist capabilities to "only a couple more months of activity." Added Agnew: "We're coming out of the woods...
Gilded Bird. Deadlines are a problem because of the intricate truck-train-plane system that hustles copies around the world. Distribution accounts for an astonishing 25% of the Trib's total production costs. The per-copy price is high, ranging from 28? in Paris to 75? in Tokyo, because most papers must be shipped out by air freight or chartered plane. Advertising rates are astronomical; it costs as much to place an ad in the Trib as in the Washington Post, which has more than four times the circulation. Yet there is no shortage of advertisers or readers. Nowadays...
...North Koreans even allowed the Times to send its Tokyo Bureau Chief John Lee. Through its unofficial representatives in Tokyo, the regime had passed the word some time ago that it would welcome a limited number of American newsmen-possibly because Peking has begun to admit U.S. reporters without suffering a bad press. Last week Washington Post Correspondent Selig Harrison was cleared for entry, and others are waiting their turn...
...many Americans over 40, a simple ceremony in Tokyo this week will perhaps serve as a strange and vaguely reassuring reminder of how shallow are the tracks of former wars. During 82 savage and bloody spring days in 1945, 12,300 American servicemen died in the closing months of the Pacific war for the control of Okinawa, a 60-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...
...spirits of the dead for the return of sovereignty to the motherland. But there will probably not be a repetition of the dancing in the streets or displays of fireworks that accompanied the first reports in late 1969 that the U.S. was getting ready to return political control to Tokyo. Even though most Okinawans welcome the change, they have had time enough for uneasy second thoughts about their island's future. "After all," Okinawan Banker Hiroshi Senaga told TIME Correspondent Frank Iwama, "the younger generation was brought up under U.S. administration, and the older generation knows only the discriminatory...