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Guam
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Guam
An island in the Marianas Oceania, whose Chamorro natives have had their brains extensively researched by Japanese and American neuropathologists attempting to determine why the natives are particularly susceptible to the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-Parkinson’s-Alzheimer’s dementia complex—ALS-P-A


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On Thursday they proposed the base be moved to the US territory of Guam, or to the remote Japanese islet of Iwo To, formerly called Iwo Jima, the site of heavy battles between American and Japanese forces in World War II.
Aa The Democrats have said they want to reexamine an agreement governing US military forces in Japan and a deal under which about 8,000 Marines will leave for the US territory of Guam and a Marine Corps air base shifted to a less-populated part of the southern island of Okinawa.
But State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said the United States would not revisit a deal finalized just months ago by Japan s long-ruling conservatives that also include moving troops to the US territory of Guam.
 
 
 
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