Word: okamoto
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...mouthpiece, the skyjackers warned that their hostages would be killed and the jet blown up unless 53 assorted "freedom fighters" were released from prisons. Israeli jails held 40 of them, including Melchite Catholic Archbishop Ilarion Capucci, who was convicted two years ago of gunrunning for Palestinian guerrillas, and Kozo Okamoto, the only survivor of the three Japanese Red Army members who massacred 27 bystanders in 1972 at Tel Aviv's Lod Airport. The 13 other extremists, claimed the skyjackers, were imprisoned in France, Switzerland, Kenya and West Germany. Among the six German prisoners were terrorist members of the Baader...
...week's end, there was still no clear word from the terrorists about their aims, except a demand for the release of Kozo Okamoto, the only survivor of the three-man Japanese murder team that carried out last year's massacre at Lod. His two companions were killed; Okamoto was captured and sentenced to life imprisonment by an Israeli court. (At the time, a columnist for the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz made a disturbingly prophetic argument for executing Okamoto: "As long as the Japanese murderer is in Israeli hands, he becomes an operational objective, an invitation...
ORSON WELLES CINEMA. THURS. The Scandalous Adventure of Buraikan (Shinoda), 4, 7:55, 11:45. Kill! (Okamoto) 5:50, 9:45, FRI-SAT Swords of Death 5:30, 8:30. San Francisco (Clark Gable) 4, 8:05, Ninotchka (Garbo), 6, 10:15, Midnite FRI-SAT Alfie...
...demanded their release. Also on the list were the names of Ulrike Meinhof and Andreas Baader, leaders of a gang of German leftist terrorists that had robbed at least eight banks, bombed U.S. Army posts and killed three policemen before the last members were captured in June, and Kozo Okamoto, the Japanese terrorist who took part in last May's massacre at Tel Aviv's Lod airport, in which 26 people died. As the police read the list, the Olympic Games continued only 400 yards away, and 2,000 cheering fans -many of them still unaware...
Reactions to the verdict were mixed. Okamoto was visibly disappointed. He wrote a request-later handed to Japanese Ambassador Eiji Tokura-that was scarcely likely to be granted: extradition to Japan, retrial, and the death penalty there. Some editorialists applauded Israeli justice, but Ha'aretz's military commentator, Ze'ev Schiff, pointed out a disturbing argument for executing Okamoto after all: "As long as the Japanese murderer is in Israeli hands, he becomes an operational objective, an invitation for murder and extortion against Israel and its citizens. In order to free Okamoto the Red Army is liable...