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Irritated when Japanese civilians scrambled recklessly across the U.S. Army's Somagahara rifle range near Tokyo in search of scrap metal, G.I. William S. Girard one day last January decided to get tough. He shoved an expended cartridge into the grenade launcher on his rifle, slid a blank into the rifle, and fired in the general direction of five civilians 30 yards away. The cartridge hit a 46-year-old woman in the back and killed...
...last week the death of Mrs. Naka Sakai had become an international incident. Japan demanded that Girard be tried for manslaughter in a civilian court (likely sentence: two to 15 years). The U.S., in the person of Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, refused to release him from Army custody "pending a complete review of the matter...
...much a bone of contention as Girard himself was the U.S.-Japanese "status of forces" agreement, which holds in general that U.S. military men shall be subject to Japanese law except when on duty. Japan claimed jurisdiction under the agreement because Girard shot the woman during a target-practice rest period, therefore was technically off duty. U.S. military authorities (who might have been able to head off the whole uproar by promptly court-martialing Girard) argued that he was on duty during the rest period, was therefore subject to military discipline. Finally, Rear Admiral Miles H. Hubbard, U.S. representative...
...returned from a brief horizontal joy ride, it slowed down and tilted its nose upward. Then it backed down toward earth, standing on its column of gas, and walked steadily toward the platform. A man was waiting at the top of the platform to help Pilot Girard during the critical operation of engaging the hook. He watched the X-13 approach until its hook was above the cable. Then he pressed a control that raised the supporting arms, slipping the cable under the hook. That was the end of the flight. The platform was cranked down to the horizontal. Pilot...
...pilot does not have to take off vertically while sitting on the back of his neck with his feet in the air. His seat pivots enough to keep him in a reasonable sitting position. Ryan officials say that the X-13 has proved remarkably easy to fly. Pilot Girard, who has been working on vertical flight for nearly five years, agrees. Even the critical transition from vertical to horizontal is no problem, he says. "You just tip her forward. It's not much of a trick; any helicopter pilot could...