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...never to acquire nuclear weapons. Nakasone has reiterated that pledge, though he, like his predecessors, must fudge a bit. The government vowed that atomic weapons would never be "introduced" into the country, but it is widely assumed that the U.S. warships that visit the U.S. naval base at Yokosuka are equipped with nuclear arms. The two countries observe a sort of polite fiction: the U.S. does not consider that it is bringing the weapons permanently into the country, so it never informs the Japanese of their presence. Tokyo, in turn, never asks...
...South Korea, the departure of 20,000 G.I.s will force Seoul's troops to patrol the entire 151-mile length of their DMZ for the first time since 1950. In Japan, there will be 12,000 fewer U.S. servicemen. The U.S. Navy plans to vacate its huge Yokosuka base in favor of quarters in Sasebo, and some 50 F-4 Phantom jets will be moved to South Korea...
...Power Remains. That sounded impressive, but the largest and most important facilities were not on the list, such as the giant airbases at Tachikawa and Yokota near Tokyo, the sprawling naval bases at Yokosuka and Sasebo in Kyushu. And many of the items on the U.S. roster were small indeed: a brace of tiny and long-unused airstrips near Tokyo, a handful of gunnery ranges, a maneuver area near the base of Mt. Fuji, a golf course and a laundry...
Maddox, a 2,200-ton destroyer, left Yokosuka, Japan, July 23 on what seemed to be a routine mission to observe North Vietnamese naval activity in the Gulf of Tonkin. Stopping at Taiwan, she took aboard a "black box," about the size of a moving van, crammed with electronic gear, and about a dozen new men to tend its innards. What was it for? Defense Secretary Robert McNamara insisted at first that the equipment "consisted in essence" of normal radio receivers that gave the ship "added capacity" to detect indications of possible attack. In testimony released at week...
About eight hours after Pueblo was towed into Wonsan, the Pentagon released word of her capture. In Yokosuka, the pregnant wife of Pueblo's executive officer, Lieut. Edward R. Murphy, heard about it from a neighbor, who heard it from her radio. As for the wounded crewmen, the Pentagon could not say which of Pueblo's complement of six officers, 75 enlisted men and two civilian hydrographers had been injured...