Military agreement to be renewed soon
TOKYO (UPI) Japan's conservative government is ready to renew its military security treaty with the United States for an indefinite period.
The 1960 pact, so controversial a decade ago that it toppled a government, will renew automatically on June 23 unless Tokyo or Washington cancels it.
June 23 is the first date since the treaty was signed 10 years ago on which Japan can give notice of withdrawal from U.S. military protection.
Under the treaty, signed amid Japanese street riots against it, the United States maintains air and naval strike forces in Japan and agrees to come to Japan's aid in the event of military attack.
The United States now keeps 39,200 uniformed men in Japan including 18,300 Air Force, 8,700 Navy, 7,400 Army and 4,800 Marines. These forces are backed up by the U.S. 7th Fleet and the 5th U.S. Air Force which roam the seas and skies of East Asia and the western Pacific.
Docking puts 4 on council for ecology
TOPEKA (UPI)—Gov. Robert B. Docking appointed four members to the state's new advisory council on ecology today.
Appointed to two year terms on the panel were: Leonard L. Sammons of Pittsburg; Brad Thompson of Wichita; K. W. Kirkman of Great Bend; and Robert J. Robel of Manhattan.
The 1970 Legislature created the 18-member council to anticipate environmental problems and propose solutions.
Docking also named as chairman of the new council, Dale E. Saffels, chairman of the Kansas Corporation Commission. The governor is authorized to name the chairman.
Sammons is owner and director of Sammons Medical Laboratory in Pittsburg. Thompson is coowner of Brad Thompson Co., a termite and pest control firm, Kirkman is president of Great Bend Feed Co. and the Barton County Flour Mill Co., and Robel is with the division of biological science at Kansas State University.
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The Japanese forces are responsible for the home defense of the Japanese Archipelago, a chain of islands which arch around Soviet Siberia and Communist China.
Japan operates its own self defense force, but it is one of the smallest military organizations in Asia.
But the big job of defending Northeast Asia and Japan is left in the hands of the United States with its nuclear air and sea forces. Japan refuses to build atomic weapons although it has the technical ability to do so.
By leaving the big cost of defense in the hands of the United States, Japan has been able to spend less than 1 per cent of its gross national product on the military and direct its energies into building the world's third largest economy after the Soviet Union and the United States.
When the security treaty renews June 23, Japan is not required to specify how long it wishes to remain under the U.S. nuclear umbrella. The first term of the treaty was set at 10 years.
Best guesses are that Prime Minister Eisaku Sato's conservative government will make a vague announcement on the renewal date without placing any life expectancy on the treaty.
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