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SERVICEMEN ADMIT RAPE ROLES...
Three American servicemen admitted their roles in the abduction and rape of a 12-year-old Japanese schoolgirl on the island of Okinawa, a crime that has threatened the military alliance between the U.S. and Japan. If convicted, the men face up to life in prison. At a press conference in Atlanta, the defendants' families maintained the confessions had been coerced by military authorities...
...Ruts '96-'97, a member of the Student Affairs Committee of the Undergraduate Council, said the idea for a women's safety group "started out of a PUCC {Progressive Undergraduate Council Coalition} discussion about how out-raged we were at the police response or lack thereof to the recent rape...
Another committee will focus on self-defense classes. HASTF succeeded last week in securing $600 from the Undergraduate Council to fund the participation of undergraduate women in the Rape Aggression Defense System (RAD) program...
...would probably be impossible to write a musical about gang warfare, racism, police brutality, and attempted rape. Drive-by shootings aren't the kind of thing out-of-towners spend $50 to see on the Great White Way. But Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story" comes from a more innocent time, when a knife fight could seem a natural subject for a ballet, and a line like "got a rocket in your pocket" didn't automatically provoke knowing winks from the audience. To present that musical now, without turning it into pure kitsch, requires a daunting level of sincerity...