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35. Shunji Taoka, “The Japanese-American Security Treaty Without a U.S. Military Presence,” Japan Policy Research Institute Working Paper, no. 31, March 1997; and Taoka, “The Way to Save the U.S. Japan Alliance,” NIRA Review, Summer 1997, pp. 3–8.

36. Washington Post, March 27, 1990.

37. Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post, March 7, 1996.

38. Asahi Shimbun, March 19, 1999.

39. Asahi Shimbun, April 18, 1996; see also Morihiro Hosokawa, “A De Facto Treaty Revision,” Japan Times International, June 1–15, 1999.

40. “Interview with Governor Ota: Japanese Democracy on Trial,” Japan Echo, Autumn 1996, p. 43 (from Sekai, July 1996).

41. Joseph S. Nye Jr., “The Case for Deep Engagement,” Foreign Affairs 74.4 (July–August 1995), pp. 90–102.

42. Washington Post, December 8, 1995.

43. Department of Defense, United States Security Strategy for the East Asia—Pacific Region (Washington, D.C.: Department of Defense, Office of International Security Affairs, February 1995), pp. 23–24.

44. Reuters, Tokyo, March 24, 1997.

45. Reuters, Washington, July 9, 1998.

46. Japan Times, July 25, 1998.

47. Defense Monitor 19.6 (1990), p. 3.

48. Camp Foster USO, Exploring Okinawa Travel Guide, 4th ed. (Naha: Barclay Publishing, 1996), pp. 62, 64, 68.

3: Stealth Imperialism

  1. Rudolph J. Rummel, Death by Government (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1994).

  2. Michael P. Scharf, “Results of the Rome Conference for an International Criminal Court,” American Society of International Law Insight, August 1998, on-line at http://www.asil.org/insigh23.htm.

  3. New York Times, October 11, 1997, and December 3, 1997.

  4. See the report in the mainstream Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo, November 12, 1997.

  5. “Australia a Key Player in Global Landmine Removal,” Australia Report, June 1998, p. 1.

  6. New York Times, December 3, 1997, and October 11, 1997.

  7. Washington Post, July 12, 1998.

  8. See Dana Priest, “Free of Oversight, U.S. Military Trains Foreign Troops,” Washington Post, July 12, 1998; Douglas Farah, “A Tutor to Every Army in Latin America,” Washington Post, July 13, 1998; Dana Priest, “Special Forces Training Review Sought,” Washington Post, July 15, 1998; Mary McGrory, “In Joint Training, a Singular Failure,” Washington Post, July 26, 1998; and Lee Siew Hua, “U.S. to Review Training of Foreign Troops,” Singapore Straits Times, August 13, 1998.

  9. Washington Post, July 12, 1998.

10. New York Times, July 20, 1998.

11. Nation, June 15–22, 1998. See also Tim Weiner, “A Tale of Torture from an Indonesian Dissident,” New York Times, May 8, 1998.

12. New York Times, November 4, 1998.

13. New York Times, August 1, 1998. See also David E. Sanger, “U.S. Backs Indonesian Loans but Cancels Military Exercise,” New York Times, May 9, 1998.

14. “Indonesian Special Ops Force Praised for Protecting National Security,” Special Warfare 10.2, Spring 1997. (This journal was formerly available online from http://leav-www.army.mil/fmso/lic/sfindex2.htm, but the army seems to have pulled it from the Internet.)

15. For details, see Allan Nairn’s reports in the Nation, March 30, April 6, June 8, and June 15, 1998. On March 18, 1998, the Indonesian military expelled Nairn from the country, but he continued to file his articles from Singapore.

16. Business Week, Asia ed., August 3, 1998. See also David Lamb, “6 Students in Jakarta Protest Killed by Police,” Los Angeles Times, May 13, 1998.

17. New Republic, July 13, 1998.

18. George Hicks, “Indonesian Mayhem and American Imperialism,” unpublished manuscript dated July 26, 1998, supplied by Hicks to the author.

19. Jakarta Post, reprinted in the Straits Times, July 20, 1998.

20. Asiaweek, July 24, 1998, p. 30.

21. William McGurn, in Asian Wall Street Journal, July 10–11, 1998.

22. Nation, June 15–22, 1998.

23. Washington Post, July 25, 1998.

24. Philip Shenon (New York Times), “U.S. Delegation Puts Emphasis on Human Rights in Indonesia,” San Diego Union-Tribune, August 2, 1998.

25. International Herald Tribune, July 21, 1998.

26. Ken Silverstein, “Privatizing War, How Affairs of State Are Outsourced to Corporations Beyond Public Control,” Nation, July 28—August 4, 1997.

27. See the Arms Control and Disarmament’s Web site at http://www.acda.gov/factshee/conwpn/wmeatfs.htm.