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Show m Okinawa: The U.Ss Far East R DESERET Tug-Of-W- ar quell the massed workers. In the imbroglio, a leading Okinawan politician was in full slightly wounded by a bayonet view of the news cameras. Next day, papers in Tokyo had a field day. A few weeks later they had another. The Apollo 11 was moved to the bottom of the front pages, as all five of Tokyos leading dailies headlined the news of a nerve-ga- s leak from U.S. chemical weapons testing sites on Okinawa. There had been previous reports that the U.S. was storing and testing nerve gases on the island. Last year, 237 children contracted a mysterious high fever and skin burning after swimming near Chibana. At about the same time, nine other children were hospitalized with severe skin sore? after an outing rear Henoko. And a number of grossly deformed frogs, some with ten and eleven legs, were caught near Gushikawa. By BERNARD KRISHER (Newsweek Feature Service) TOKYO Okinawas years as a private preserve of the Pentagon are drawing to a close. For almost a quarter of a century, the American military has ruled the one million Japanese on Okinawa and the Ryukyu chain in a way it no longer rules anywhere in the world, even in Japan or perhaps especially itself. The Army has a veto on laws passed by the Okinawan legislature in the capital city of Naha; it outlaws strikes; it sets wages far below those prevalent on the main islands of Japan. And it brooks no interference by Okinawans in the islands function as the main base of U.S. operations for the war In Vietnam and for aerial intelligence over China and Soviet Siberia. The military has also ignored the objections of the local population to the vast arsenals of nuclear and chemical weapons it stores on the island. Okinawa has indeed been a military mans dream. Were able to do anything, any time, anywhere, without askU.S. ing anybody, says one ret of ing er- ,Ve co the its Kir- - site ort ihs iiki 'ae- - has ihs 'od- -' aps ihs hat stry ton , to : rice im- - rtah own a STT nue I by e to ople of just a moon-landin- to- . - How Berries g Picked The Candidates By HARRY JONES They used berries to pick their political candidates down in Strawberry Hats and the way Grandpa Jackson explained it, it seemed After the news break, the Department was forced to acknowledge for the first time that it had indeed stored lethal nerve-ga- s munitions at American bases overseas and to promise that it wouldnt do it anymore. But the U.S. remains a country that has great difficulty in recognizing defeat, even in the diplomatic field. In late summer, Secretary of State William P. Rogers visited Japan and made it abundantly clear that the Nixon Administration was not giving away something (Okinawa) for nothing. It has long rankled Washington that g Japan, now the worlds industrial power, contributes only one per cent of its gross national income to economic assistance for underdeveloped Asian countries. Rogers told the Japanese that the UJ, would keep Okinawa as an independent military base until the Japanese demonstrate greater willingness to take up the yellow mans burden in the East The Japanese response was not dear. Perhaps it didnt have to be. Time and public opinion are clearly working against the U.S. of Defense Newsmap shows strategic importance e Okinawa, major U.S. military installations. not the military necessity it was the chances are they will get their way, zo strongly has Japanese public opinion made itseif felt on the subject Were in a bind, says one Tokyo-base- d U.S. diplomat. We might wind up keeping the bases on Okinawa and losing alliance. the whole Japanese-America- n a few years ago. Polaris submarines, aircraft carriers and Korean-base- d planes now make up the greatest part of the U.S. nuclear force in the area, and the American-owne- d island of Guam, 1,400 miles southeast, remains a strong factor. Still, when the inevitable departure comes and for whatever the immediate reasons it will have about it some Though some U.S. policy-makewould prefer to delay the turn-ove- r until the end of the Vietnam war, the general feeling in Washington is that Okinawa is rs around Penneys store. It made for some interesting 24-ho- city-bre- . : INSIDE REPORT Inquest Revives Sen. Kennedy's Nightmare we MERRY - GO - ROUND By JACK ANDERSON Sen. Ted Kennedys WASHINGTON when he nightmare of July drove Mary Jo Kopechne off Dyke Bridge to her death in the black waters below d will be revived Wednesday at the . than - 18-1- 9 SON, ons, rive Apparently they were waiting for someone to pick them up, and I thought they werent aware of the accident, reported Hewitt "So I went over and asked them if they were aware of it. One of the fellows, I believe it was the big fellow, (Paul) Markham, he told me, he said yes, he just heard about it. "Was Senator Kennedy standing with Markham and this other fellow at the time that you told them? asked Ellen. As I approached, replied the ferry Senator Kennedy left the operator, other two men and walked away behind a couple of cars. The senator reboarded the ferry and object or another person In the back seat, he testified. The latter could have k been some clothing or a hat or a on the back ledge, he said. Before he could reach the car, he said, it drove off down Dyke Road. He continued on his way home and encountered a man and two women strolling near the Chappaquiddick fire station. "They were acting very happy and so I recalled Look, unconcerned, stopped and asked them if they would like to have a lift The girl the tall girl In the back closest to me said, Shove off, bud. I am not sure whether she said either, i am not a pickup or just Shove long-awaite- pock-etboo- inquest. Thus far, the participants in the festivities before the tragedy, all Kennedy loyalists, havent cooperated with District Attorney Edmund Dinis, whose preliminary investigation has raised as many questions as it has answered. For instance, Deputy Sheriff Christo-he- r S. Look Jr., who was driving on appaquiddick Island the midnight of e accident, has now positively identi-ie- d the death car as the one he saw sav--e eading down Dyke Road at 12:40 in the we ' orning. And you are reasonably certain, Mr. are asked Diniss chief investigator, ik, hina ,t. George Ellen, that the car you saw eing pulled out of the water on the re is orning of Saturday the 19th, that it was call he same car that you saw at the interthen action of Dyke Road and Chappaquid-ic- k war- 5 Road at approximately m. on that same day? Yes sir, said Look emphatically. This was more than an hour after ien. Kennedy said the accident had occurred. .Look said he had approached the car, hinking the driver might be lost. "I noticed a man driving and a roman on the other side and either an returned to the mainland where he reported to the Edgartown police station. Chief Dominick Arena was at the accident scene in swimming trunks when he learned of Kennedys arrival The station put Kennedy on the phone, and Chief Arena, ironically, took the call at nearby the same house that the Dyke House senator bypassed after the accident. I told the senator, testified Arena, that I felt bad, that I was sorry that I had to make this call but it seemed as though there was a tragedy involving his car, and he said he knew. I asked him if anybody else was in the car, do you think they are in the water? He said, I would like to talk to you. I said, Where would you like to off, buddy. The man was very polite and said, Thank you, sir, but we are only going to He pointed to the this cottage house. cottage where the Kennedy party had been holding a cookout. This tends to confirm my original report that the people at the cookout had started to drift off in pairs for a midnight swim. Kennedy invited Mary Jo for a swim, say insiders, about 11:30 p.m. Ferry operator Richard Hewitt told Dinis investigators that he had delivered Kc.titiiy uiil two men on the island. They were at the landing when he returned after quick crossing. In the meantime, he had learned of the accident 12:40-12:4- . talk to me, over at my office? He said, 'I would like to see you over there. . . . When I reached the station, I met the senator, and he was there with Paul Markham in my office. They had been using the office phone, and when I got there, I said, I am sorry. Almost the first remark the senator made was, I was driving the car. How was the senator dressed at the time he appeared at the station? asked Ellen. He had a white sport shirt on, short sleeves and a pair of blue slacks, and he looked neat. He looked physically okay, but he was very depressed and acted very depressed, acted very downtrodden. For a week after the Chappaquiddick incident, say intimates, he brooded about it and wouldnt discuss the details with his most intimate advisers. They had to depend upon his cousin, Joe Gargan, and Markham for an account of what had happened. The senator wept bitterly when he learned that his paralyzed father had been told about the accident and was upset. On another occasion, he couldnt contain his emotions, and the tears flowed again. The old Kennedy buoyancy still hasnt returned. The signs of strain show on his face. He avoids looking people in the eye. He is a tragically sad figure as ha resumes his ordeal this week at the inquest. MAN Citv BOOKS Hey! Hey! They Play Like Crazy , Man Or Machine; Which Is Boss? ian By HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Editor MAN AND THE COMPUTER; by 3thn Diobold; Frederick A. Praeger; 153 pfiges; $5.95. great ideas are simple and never laew in the sense of being created in a vacuum or first exemplified, but the Subconscious realization of the possible fclfe and ramifications of an idea is. I Scientific and technological advances till take us beyond the civilization of an very industrial society and will raise an out, ef tlrely new set of social, economic and o. In fcfsiness problems. They will tax our inle i' nuity to its utmost. 0 Both these questions are from the their me book, Man and the Computer, by 3i hn Diebold, a leader in the field of Bsmagement and technology and one of most knowledgeable young men in ENS. i wo id on the impart of the computer East a: d technology on society as a whole. If the statements appear paradoxical they resemble other, similar points elsewhere in this brief but farsighted wrk the reader should not be coniema-dAll s at 19th that were considAccomplishments ered fabulous exhibitions of instrumental virtuosity at the threshold of the present centuiy are now matters of routine for any music school uate. grad- Only 30 year ago, for example, the American pianist, John Kirkpat- rick, amazed a sophisticated New York audience by performing Charles Ives "Concord Sonata Kirkpatrick had spent three years in prep aration. Now a dozen pianists have the Concord Sonata in their repertoire, and all of them have it memorized. To a Paderewski redivivus, the Ives sonata would have been impossible to master because venue Schoenberg. The conclusion is inescapable that present-da- y pianists and violinists and other instrumentalists have ascended to a higher rung of the double helix of musical inborn and digital facility. When a violinist remarked that he would have to grow an extra finger to overcome the fantastic technical difficulties of Schoenbergs "Violin Concerto, Schoenberg replied, I can wait It must be emphasized that the aston- ishing development of digital techniques is not the result of training alone. Environmental factors play an important role. The proliferation of four-minu- te rollers is accounted for by improving control of muscles and of breathing. The technical prowess of modern musicians must have a similarly rational explanation. It would be a grave error to contend that a modern musical technician, who can play anything and everything, is, ipso facto, superior to the great virtuosos of the past Indeed, competent critics denlore the acquisition of technique for techniques sake. And they frequently point out that the cold proficiency of modern performers is attained by sacrificing the freedom of individual interpretation. is a dirty But "interpretation word in the vocabulary of modern musicians. Fidelity to the composers explicit instructions and to the letter of his text is now the universal desideratum. by Briekman fhg small society cerned. Diebold goes one step beyond the writer who wring their hands and, like CScken Little, predict the sky will fall b :ause computers Kill replace man. Diebold tells us, first, that technology kes immense changes in all phases of lives and business inevitable, and nd, that it is within the capacity of to cope with computers and to mas-thebefore the machine gets the r hand. tflf there is a single thread that runs through tiie entire book, it is that man mst learn to accept tiie fact he is living bys time of great change. CNS -P- AUL CORCORAN, of its transcendents1! difficulties and the unfamiliarity of its dissonant idiom. Schoenbergs Piano Concerto would have appeared a meaningless jumble of unrelated notes to the great Anton Rubinstein. Even Debussy and Ravel would have been beyond the grasp of most 19th Century musicians. Perhaps only Liszt, who possessed a prophetic vision in the harmony of the future, would have been at ease with 20th Century music even he would probably balk at Ives and gifted HE GtloilLP MAKING ises- - XteteMnetmi gSwdUectto. Ins. THE ce&-- S ' 1 were yokels. It was these candidates who got the most baited by these same yokels. ,,, If he was a Democrat, he would be told about the amazing cat that just had 25 kittens all of them Republicans. When he asked how you can tell a cat, they replied: Those cats have their eyes open now. The cat C changed politics to fit the candidate. Grandpa Jackson always told the can-- u didate that there were 10 in the family . who could vote and everyone but Uncle , George was supporting him. When the candidate asked why ,, George wasnt among those supporting him, Grandpa replied, Hes been to ag- ricultural college hes smarter than the 1 rest of us! M Grandpa was only joking, of course, but if he had lived to see Uncle George make more money off the farm government subsidies for not growing any- he might have believed it. , ) But back to how the folks at Straw-berr- y Flats used strawberries to pick the candidate they would support. It was Grandpas idea and everyone went along ' with it. For about three days before the candidate came for a visit, everyone saved the strawberries they had harvested. The primary campaign always started when the berries were ripening. And these berries were the pay crop of the Talk Won't Curb Inflation By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK Eehlnd the facade ' of forced optimism about the state of the economy, President Nixons economic policymakers have decided to stick indefWASHINGTON initely to the tight money attack against inflation despite the grim foreboding that it almost surely will produce a 1970 recession possibly of severe dimen- r valley. When the politician arrived, everyone sions. Desperate appeals from President Nixons economic advisers to loosen tiie screws on the money supply are having no effect whatever on the Quadriad, the economic policymaking body of the government However, there is growing realization inside the administration that tills policy will stop the inflation far later than had been hoped and at a cost to the economy far greater than expected. That is, lack of financing will slow down the economy so much that business activity will slump and unemployment will soar. Moreover, there is a dread feeling that the recession, when it comes, will be most difficult to reverse and quite likely will extend into the 1970 election campaign. Nor is there any agreement about hov best to combat a recession. Mr. Nixons repeated Considering strictures to friends that the 1960 Eisenhower recession cost him the presidency and that economic downturns must be avoided by any future Republican president, there is at least the possibility that he will reverse the Quadriad. Certainly, he could base such action on the views of unofficial advisers outside the government. Chief among them has been Dr. Mil-to- n Friedman, a conservative economist at the University of Chicago with intimate ties to this administration. For the past montn, Friedman has been waging a campaign. His plea: tight money already has had its impact on the pitched in with the chore of sorting the berries for size. A good politician wanting to get next to the residents always pitched in with them . . . lent a hand at the sorting. It would be explained to him that the strawberries were to be sorted according to size small, medium and large. (What the candidate didnt know was that the berries he was to sort had been especially hand picked and were the ; same size.) How he sorted those berries determed the support he got from Strawberry Flats voters. If he hesitated and stumbled around, he was in trouble as a vote getter. Like Grandpa said: If a man cant make a small decision like determining whether a r'Tawberry is small, medium or large, he couldnt be trusted to make big decisions in Washington! ft ir Wit's End If you wat to get a youthful figure . . woman her try asking a middle-age- d J age- - BIG TALK one-ma- n economy though tiie indicators dont quite show it; the Federal Reserve must ease up or risk disaster. Other friends of the Nixon Administration, economists and businessmen alike, are urging action to put sone money in the banks. As a substitute for fighting inflation, some want Mr. Nixon to return jawpartially to the Kennedy-Johnso- n bone technique and urge greater on business and particularly labor in seeking higher prices and wages. The campaign has failed. Regarding presidential admonitions as basically ineffective, the Quadriad feels rethat a public plea for straint would fail miserably and would therefore only erode Mr. Nixons presnt - labor-busine- ss m IRER MUSICAL WHIRL Nixon Decides four-ma- n d j ring ime times in an otherwise quiet hamlet. Some of the candidates could not hide the fact that they thought the rural residents of Strawberry Flats third-rankin- of the aura of a forced retreat And Japanese political pressure will be only pah of the story. ' The Okinawans themselves have forced the issue. A series of anti-U.demonstrations culminated in a wildcat strike of 18,000 laborers early this summer. In an effort to cool things, the Army heated them up sending troops to logi-ca-l. It seems that the rest of the congressional district of which Strawberry Flats was part, was divided almost to the man between Democrats and Re-- p u b licans. That meant that the candidate who could sell himself to the residents Flats could win the election. lj For this reason, would-b- e senators i and congressmen made special trips to woo the people of Strawberry Flats and H to "set a spell with the men hanging area. officer. Not for long. Reality, international politics and the new open season on U.S. military policies have brought their changes. Now the complete reversion of Okinawa and the Ryukyu chain to Japanese rule has became the No. 1 political issue in Japan. Prime Minister Eisaku Sato has staked his political life on the outcome of his talks with President Nixon in November about a timetable for the islands return. Sato has publicly stated that he could not consider the postwar era ended for Japan until it regains administrative control of Okinawa. There has never been any doubt that the U.S. would sooner or later hand over control of Okinawa to Japan. But until recently, Pentagon strategists hoped the U.S. would be able to retain not only its big bases on the island, but the right to launch any combat operation it wished from those bases. Now the Japanese are demanding that they be given the right to veto any warin the like missions from Okinawa same way they may now veto warlike missions from U.S. bases on Japan. And ; OUR MAH JONES AH three areas were situated near U.S. chemical warfare testing sites. The U.S. had a policy of denying knowledge of any nerve-ga- s testing or storage in the high-ranki- nee es. A15 Tuesday, September 2, 1969; !i!H led NEWS will tige. A c c o rdingly, administration policymakers see only one alternative to a continuation of tight money: letting inflation roar on. If this inflation could be controlled at a rate even so high as 5 per cent a year, some Nixon economists ' could accept it. 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