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Looking at recent book titles about Japan, a disturbing pattern emerges: The Coming War with Japan, Yen! Japan's New Financial Empire and its Threat to America...
Nissan and Toyota cite the rising value of the yen. But several analysts say the Japanese firms are anticipating a move by Tokyo trade officials, responding to pressure from Washington, to limit the number of Japanese cars exported to the U.S. Raising prices would be one way of maintaining profits while curtailing sales...
...Yen town is little more than a crossroads with a few shops and an open market. The local People's Committee compound, a series of one-story concrete buildings, would be our base of operations. Four witnesses who had either seen the crash or its aftermath made the trek from outlying villages to be interviewed. Two would serve as guides up nearby Suoi Pai Mountain to the crash site itself. Over cups of bitter green tea, I interrogated the witnesses as carefully as possible...
...guides, Mui Van Pin, was the leader of a nearby guerrilla detachment in 1965. During questioning at Phu Yen the day before, he had clearly remembered burying the two airmen three days after the crash -- a delay caused by a dispute between two neighboring villages over which should get the credit for two dead enemies. But the newly discovered witness, Phe, distinctly recalled burying both men the day after the crash, in separate graves, even though the regular soldiers were ready to put them in a common grave. "I am a member of the Thai minority," he explained...
...continued to argue at the crash site, squatting on what appeared to be the cowling of one of the F-4's engines. Hin, the hamlet party chief, tended to agree with Phe but said he had left before the burial to attend a meeting in Phu Yen. When he returned to the crash site several days later, the men had been buried. Pin said the graves lay deep in the jungle up the mountainside -- though he could not remember exactly where. According to Phe, however, the site was only 15 ft. away. He quickly located one of the spots...