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...FIRMLY BELIEVE THOSE SERVICEMEN who brutally raped the 12-year-old girl in Okinawa should be held fully accountable for their actions [JAPAN, Oct. 2]. The smoke screen of the Status of Forces Agreement only intensifies the embarrassment of the American people for the behavior of their military personnel. How can anyone with a conscience tolerate such a defense? What are the obligations of the U.S. military when stationed on foreign soil, and why aren't those obligations being enforced? In their blatant and callous disregard for human decency and proper military behavior, the servicemen waived their right to protection...
...ASHAMED FOR MY COUNTRY AFTER reading about the rape of the young girl in Okinawa by U.S. servicemen. Those who commit such brutal crimes should be put to death, but men in my country commit rapes in frightening numbers because the penalty is laughable. LISA TUCKER Kingsville, Texas...
...FUROR OVER THE RAPE OF AN Okinawan girl should be tempered by the realization that since the end of World War II the number of crimes by our servicemen has been far outweighed by their many, many acts of decency and humanitarianism. HUGH F. O'REILLY Ewa Beach, Hawaii...
...scheme took shape, according to Japanese police, early in the evening of Monday, Sept. 4, the Labor Day holiday for Americans. Four U.S. servicemen stationed on Okinawa, home base to 29,000 American troops, met at a disco in Naha, the island's main city, and talked about grabbing an Okinawan girl and having some "fun." One man quickly backed out, but, he later told investigators, the other three, two Marines and a sailor, decided to cruise the seaside boulevards in search of prey...
...formal apology by U.S. Ambassador Walter Mondale has done little to placate the people of Okinawa after the rape of a 12-year-old girl, allegedly by a group of U.S. servicemen, exactly three weeks ago. Today, nearly a thousand people gathered in a park on the Japanese island to demand that American military personnel stationed there leave for good. "The rape has crystallized Okinawans' sense of grievance against the powers in Washington and Tokyo," reports Tokyo bureau chief Edward Desmond. The timing couldn't be worse, since the U.S. and Japan are to sign a five-year agreement Wednesday...