Word: yamashita
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...magnificent obsession of Sachio Yamashita is to turn the gray streets and buildings of Chicago into a splendiferous explosion of color. "The whole city is my canvas," declares the slight, goateed artist, who left Japan in 1968 to join the faculty of Prairie State College in Chicago Heights. So far, with the help of small contributions from the city, the U.S. Government and the Stone Foundation, Yamashita has painted the side of an old apartment building with a picture of waves surrounding Mount Fuji, hung a thick, 165-ft.-long, rainbow-hued rope from the roof of another structure...
...presidency, and that the interests of the presidency may be quite different from the interests of the country as a whole. This over developed identification of self with office is quite alien from any American political tradition. It is also a phenomenon which demands Nixon's impeachment. The Yamashita precedent--set when a Japanese general was hanged (by American justice) for crimes his troops committed--is inapplicable for anything but political crimes. Yet political crimes are what the American Congress faces when it confronts the Watergate affair and other comparable incidents in Nixon's presidency. As Mitchell has pointed...
...calculated "solution" which Prof. Huntington unabashedly singles out and encourages as a good thing. And they are policies which, if we went by certain clauses in the Geneva Convention and the U.S. Army Manuals, could not hold their own in any war crimes trial of the Nuremberg or Yamashita type...
Font stated in his allegations that an inquiry should follow from the Yamashita rule, under which the U. S. hanged the Japanese commander in the Philippines in 1946 for atrocities his men committed without his knowledge or authority. The U. S. Supreme Court has upheld a military court ruling that a commander is responsible for the conduct of his men whether or not he is aware of their activities...
...generals?say, William C. Westmoreland, U.S. commander in Viet Nam at the time of My Lai? Clearly, the Yamashita decision is part of U.S. law until the Supreme Court or Congress amends it. Unlike Yamashita, moreover, Westmoreland had superb communications with his troops. But even if he is prosecuted for My Lai, which seems totally unlikely, a modern court-martial would unquestionably require detailed proof that Westmoreland had had actual knowledge or reason to know that Calley-style acts were likely to occur, and that he had failed to take reasonable steps to ensure compliance with the laws...