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...first astronauts on the moon; in Cutchogue, New York. CONVICTED. TIMOTHY WOODLAND 25, Okinawa-based U.S. Air Force staff sergeant, for the rape last June of a 24-year-old local woman on the hood of a car at a shopping center; by a Japanese district court in Naha. The incident was the latest in a string of public relations debacles for the U.S. military in Okinawa, whose personnel number some 26,000. Woodland has been sentenced to 32 months in jail. INDUCTED. RAGGEDY ANN, 87, wholesome redheaded doll, into the U.S. National Toy Hall of Fame, joining such icons...
...hour-and-a-half's drive from the bustle of Naha City is a village called Katsuyama. It's both minutes and light years away from Nago, the site where the leaders of the world's most powerful countries met at the G8 summit a year ago. Even the term village is a stretch for the sparse scattering of thick, orange-tiled houses set amid jungle-covered mountains...
...Force Base; on Friday nights it's the Globe & Anchor, a vast R. and R. complex on Camp Foster with arcade games and pool tables around a pulsing dance floor; on Saturday nights it's Slum, a three-story hip-hop club on the divey back streets of Naha City. (In the wake of the June 29 incident, the club 3F has fallen off the circuit.) On any of these nights at any of these venues, men invariably outnumber women by ten to one. A girl can't go five minutes without getting hit on?and there...
...three U.S. servicemen raped a 12-year-old girl, 85,000 Okinawans took to the streets to protest. Alleged crimes like the one last week just feed the sour mood. "How long do we have to wait until this ends?" asks Suzuyo Takazato, a member of the legislature of Naha, Okinawa's largest city. "Why can't the U.S. take these men and their training and do it somewhere else...
...girl, 85,000 Okinawans staged a peaceful but angry protest. Over the years, a series of outrageous sex crimes have made the U.S. servicemen seem totally out of control. "How long do we have to wait until this ends?" asks Suzuyo Takazato, a member of the legislature of Naha, Okinawa's largest city. "Why can't the U.S. take these men, and these bases, and their training, and do it somewhere else...