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When Japanese police arrived to take custody of the three, however, the U.S. military police denied the request, invoking Article 17, Paragraph 5C of the 1960 Status of Forces Agreement, which covers the rights and obligations of U.S. forces in Japan. The U.S. is obliged to hand over criminal suspects only after they have been indicted. In some countries, like South Korea, the U.S. does not surrender accused service members until they are convicted and have exhausted all appeals. In the Okinawa case, the U.S. compromised by permitting the police to take the suspects each day for questioning, but insisted...
...recent bestselling book, "My American Journey," Colin Powell mentions prominently that he turned down jobs in both the Bush and Clinton administrations. In a single paragraph, he adds he also turned down a job at Harvard...
...There's a lengthy oath about observing the Constitution and the laws of the Commonwealth. It's a formal ceremony in which everybody raises their right hand, and does, in fact, swear paragraph by paragraph," he said...
...sarcastic, off the cuff, and the reporter treated it as such. It was a remark not to be taken seriously," Jacoby said, noting that the comment had been far down in the story. "The AP [Associated Press] reporter put in the first paragraph. It was a little bit shamefully treated...
...outside world learned of the Hiroshima bomb--but not of its gruesome effects--from a terse White House announcement approved by President Truman, who was steaming home from Potsdam on the U.S.S. Augusta. The big news was saved for the beginning of the third paragraph: "It is an atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. The force from which the sun draws its powers has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East." This was the first public announcement anywhere indicating that nuclear weapons even existed...