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Coast Guard are asking whether the institution should have let the potentially career-ending charges hang over Blanchard for so long. By comparison, when a top Navy admiral suggested during a breakfast with the press last year that U.S. servicemen charged in the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl would have been smarter to hire a prostitute instead, he was out of his job by dinnertime. "The stress level went up as it dragged on and on," Connie Blanchard says. "I've struggled with this, but I think he believed that was the best thing he could...
...Sunday that the U.S. military would return to Okinawa 20 percent of the land it uses on the island. "At this point, this is announcement has been well-received," says TIME's Irene Kunii. "Okinawa Governor Masahide Ota himself said it was a welcome development." The rape of an Okinawan girl by U.S. servicemen served to galvanize residents already fed up with the noise and inconvenience of U.S. bases. Many, including Ota, have called for a complete U.S. withdrawal. It's unlikely that the U.S. will pull out completely, notes Kunii, especially since Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto...
...Sunday that the U.S. military would return to Okinawa 20 percent of the land it uses on the island. "At this point, this is announcement has been well-received," says TIME's Irene Kunii. "Okinawa Governor Masahide Ota himself said it was a welcome development." The rape of an Okinawan girl by U.S. servicemen served to galvanize residents already fed up with the noise and inconvenience of U.S. bases. Many, including Ota, have called for a complete U.S. withdrawal. It's unlikely that the U.S. will pull out completely, notes Kunii, especially since Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto...
Roderico Harp, one of three American servicemen accused of raping a 12-year-old Okinawan schoolgirl, told a packed Japanese courtroom that U.S. military investigators coerced him into confessing to the crime. Harp, a 21-year-old Marine, testified at the Naha District Court that investigators from the Naval Criminal Investigative Services woke him at four in the morning two days after the incident. Harp said he told the investigators what happened, but they asked him to "go in another direction" and say what the "Japanese would like to hear." When the trial opened November 7, Harp and another Marine...
Ties with Japan have been strained, first after the heavy pressure from Washington to absorb more U.S. goods, more recently after the rape of an Okinawan schoolgirl allegedly by three U.S. servicemen. Last week the commander of U.S. Pacific forces had to accept early retirement when he observed that the servicemen could have hired a prostitute for the cost of the rental car in which they purportedly committed the crime. But officials on both sides have been stressing the importance of healthy ties overall to undercut the disruptive power of individual issues, and it seems to be working...