Word: okamoto
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Whether because of youth or ignorance, Kozo Okamoto, 24, seemed not to comprehend last week the sober déja vu of his appearance before a military tribunal in a barracks near Tel Aviv. Okamoto stood before the three-officer court accused in the killing of 26 people and the wounding of 72 others in a terrorist attack at Tel Aviv's Lod International Airport in which his two accomplices were also killed (TIME, June 12). The circumstances, however -a stern tribunal, spartan courtroom, TV lights, well-frisked audience of international journalists-replayed the surroundings in which Adolf Eichmann...
...accompany him to the Democratic Convention this week. Among them are Ken Regan, who, in addition to photographing every major candidate this year, provided the color photography for this week's Essay on the Rolling Stones and this week's cover photo; Pulitzer Prizewinner Eddie Adams; Yoichi Okamoto, President Johnson's White House photographer and Walter Bennett of our Washington Bureau, who has been capturing the capital on film for two decades...
...compensation from his government, amounting to roughly $5,000 per injured survivor of the Lod massacre and $10,000 each for the families of the dead. Meanwhile, in a poignant letter to Israeli Premier Golda Meir, the former schoolteacher father of the surviving gunman, Kozo Okamoto, pleaded that "my son be executed as soon as possible after he is given relentless investigation...
...which has brought a new kind of terror to the world, has also provided the means by which radical groups as ideologically alike but logistically separate as the Japanese and Palestinians can get together in a kind of terrorists international. Japanese Assassin Kozo Okamoto, for instance, was apparently recruited by an Arab who flew into Japan to show a film on commando warfare. While there, the Arab also surreptitiously offered disenchanted Japanese students forged passports, air fare and a chance for a twisted kind of glory...