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Harvard's move came just days after MIT Provost John M. Deutsch wrote a letter to Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney, reflecting similar sentiments and wielding similar veiled threats...
With tighter international embargoes on Libya, Washington doubts that Gaddafi will be able to rebuild. "It's a darned shame," said U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, grinning...
...time too often" over Subic and that the U.S. might pull out. Aquino, who was saved from a military coup last December when U.S. jet fighters from Clark kept rebel air power grounded, caught a lot of domestic heat over her dependence on the U.S. She may have used Cheney's visit to show some distance. While the U.S. bases are often picketed by leftists, polls show that a majority of Filipinos want them to stay. They provide 68,000 Filipino jobs and inject $507 million annually into the economy...
...Japanese, who take hope from recent negotiations with the Soviets over the Kurile Islands, urged Cheney to keep U.S. pressure on the Kremlin to reduce its military strength in Asia. As for the 50,000 American troops in Japan and its outlying island of Okinawa, Cheney said the U.S. plans to withdraw only about 5,000 over the next three years. The U.S. also wants the Japanese to increase the $2.8 billion they now pay toward the $6 billion annual cost of keeping American forces in Japan...
...talks, that North Korea's dictator Kim Il Sung still poses a threat. Within the South Korean military, there is disagreement over whether that nation's 650,000- member armed forces could turn back a North Korean invasion. Yet it is clear that the U.S. presence remains a deterrent. Cheney announced in Seoul that the U.S. plans to reduce the 43,000 troops now on the peninsula by only 5,000 over the next three years. This would include closing three U.S. air bases starting next year (leaving two). According to opinion polls, only a small minority of South Koreans...