Japan
The Freedom Bird Flies Again
The first refugees out of Saigon — 54 Vietnamese orphans — arrived at Yokota AB early Thursday after a dash to freedom from an increasingly nervous South Vietnamese capital. This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, April 4, 1975. It is republished unedited in its original form.
Doin' a job that's so bad ...
My name is Horosha. That means tramp, drifter, hobo, bum. I had a home once — loving hands, regular meals, even a place to sleep. Now, whenever I see people, I have to cut and run.
Makarios hopeful of Mideast peace
Archbishop Makarios, president of Cyprus, said Monday the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser could imperil Mideast peace prospects because Nasser's successor, lacking his power and influence, might not be able to get other Arab leaders to accept a negotiated settlement.
Air Force wife describes 6-floor jump in hotel fire
An Air Force wife from Okinawa, alive after jumping six floors Monday from the blazing New Japan Hotel, has told a harrowing story of survival to a thankful husband.
Carter, Hua meet after Ohira rites
President Carter met Thursday with Chinese Premier Hua Guofeng, the day after Carter laid white carnations on an altar of flowers and called his friendship with the late Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira "a symbol of the firm bonds" between Japan and America.
Japan’s Christians face struggle, says Rev. Billy Graham
Magnetic and compelling, evangelist Billy Graham called upon 20,000 Japanese to turn Christian and warned them that conversion could be a costly thing that might mean conflicts with their families and friends.
Famed lensman David Douglas Duncan still working hard
Fifteen years ago, a young LIFE magazine photographer named David Douglas Duncan caught the weary, mud-spattered face of a young U.S. Marine sergeant as he ducked enemy fire and slogged past a dead north Korean on the banks of the Naktong River.