AROUSES FEAR IN JAPAN
Uneasiness is rising in Japan over the Pentagon’: s conversion of Okinawa into a major’ logistical base for supporting and escalating the war in Vietnam. L rae
. Vast areas of: the flat coastal. land have been turned into on parking lots for trucks, tanks, guns: and. packing crates containing ~ military equipment to be’ shipped on to Vietnam. Freighters lie at .. anchor awaiting their turn to. get into port.
About $1, 000, 000 , 000° have already been put. into Okinawa for. military facilities and new projects are: proceeding feverishly. Okinawa provides for medical evacuation, jungle training, rotational quarters: en aerial “refueling in relation with the war in. Vietnan.
Th ‘ease of an attack on the ‘People! ‘s Republic of China, ‘the. base would bécome of even greater strategical Aimportance:.! The. air-.. strips built by the Pentagon can accommodate Bape" s carrying . nuclear, weapons. . .
The Japanese fear that the use to which Washington is putting Okinawa can only serve to help suck their ‘country deeper into. the... escalating vortex in Southeast Asia. :
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