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EL AVIV bbt.1 i—The trial of
Kozo Okamoto opened Monday
with a confession from the Jap-
anese
- kamikaze" gunman cap-
tured in the Ividda Airport mas-
sacre
(is Mat. 30, Itr72
I
Oka
no,. together with two other per
whow• name. I has(' forgotten
opened fire at the TN dda Airport
ter mina! I do not know hiss many
1 .,•op: e wet e lolled. ' he said
The atintesion of guilt came as
sLirrrl,:• to tit . ferl-e lawyer Max
Ist,tzman
sill0 had ads ised him
not to reply to the question of
his guilt This left Nia/man with
no other alternative than to ask
the court to appmnl a medical
to
toe whether Okamoto was
fulls
',file at the brioo of al.. massacre .
Howe. er the nolitar:, tribunal
declined to order a ps cluiltrie ex
animation after the prisoner told
KOZO OKAMOTO
the court. "I am a normal man
from a psychological viewpoint I if all the gunmen had been ac-
counted for or if further attacks
am not insane "
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The decision represented a set were planned.
When defense counsel expressed
back for Kritzman.
doubt that the information was
The tribunal announced its de-
urgent enough to require such
vision in the matter after hearing I
b it, Gen Zeevi snapped, ''If you
testimony from a government psy-
had a relative due to arrive at
chiatrist, Dr. Reuben Meyer. who
I
said that a proper psychiatric ex- Lydda You'd think otherwise.'
Kritzman complained to the
a ruination of Okamoto might last
court over the personal nature
as long as three weeks, but that
of
the remark, and Gen. Zeevi
it would yield no results if the
was warned to refrain from mak•
subiect refused to cooperate
ing such remarks.
Nhen the court asked Oka-
in the days of the British Mandate
base for
a.: a central m !Wary
Brittsh troops after World War
hall
is
specialty
long
I. The
equipped to accommodate the more
than 200 newsmen. cameramen and
teleDsion cress who are attendmg
the trial
Strict security measures are in
effect, and no flashbulbs are per
mitted. The defendant was scale I
in a small w ooden box reinforced
with a breast-high steel plate. The
television cameras are positioned
along. one side of the hall on a
raised platform
The opening session of the
trial lacked any aura of the
tragedy that Okamoto and his
companions brought to the Lydda
victims and their families. The
at mosphere was legaliStic as
Kritzman instructed the court
that it need not ask Okamoto it
he confesses or denies guilt.
In addition to admitting that he
killed tourists and citizens, Oka-
moto said that he had killed po-
licemen. Ile said that he' was act-
ing in the service of the Japanese
Red Army which is in partnership!
with the Arab liberation move.
ment
The court went into consulta- 1
tions and - later decided to accept
the defense consel request for a
psychiatric commission.
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A few minutes later, the gen- ing grenades and performing
mote if he would cooperate. the
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prisoner replied vehemently in
sociation.
asking him a "stupid question"
the negative.
All charges are under defense
A statement Okamoto gave to and was again cautioned by the '
regulations dating back to British
police shortly after the May 30 court
Mandate times.
The court ruled against defense
-Lydda Airport massacre was read
into the record at his trial Wed- counsel's demand that it disqual
nesdac after the court rejected . ify itself because Gen Zeevi was
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that the ranking Israel officer authority on the military code said
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oresent at his interrogation had this week that contrary to wide-
no intention of carrying out a deal spread belief, the military tram-
to allow him to commit suicide nal trying Okamoto can impose
if he told the truth the death penalty.
The lawyer, Evyatar Levin. said
The prosecution argued that
Okantutr was told beforehand that the authority to pronounce the
the agreement he had made with maximum sentence depended MI
Mal Gen Rehavam Zeevi, con,- the terms under which the tribu-
mander of the Central Command, nal was appointed
When the three-man panel was
was null and said and that the
general refused to honor it be- named last month by Army Chief
cause the prisoner had, in fact, of Staff Gen David Elazar it was
made false statements believed that capital punishment
Some observers here believe that was ruled out because only one
as a result of the court's accept- member, the tribunal's president.
Lt Col. Abraham Frisch, is a law-
anc• of Okamoto's statement, the
yer. Israeli lass requires that at
trial could end this week
The prosecution said Tuesday least two members of a military
that it would waive further wit - tribunal he jurists in order ro
nesse,: if the prisoner's statement. impose a death sentence
Levin told the Jewish Tele-
tantamount to a confession, wzts
graphic Agency that this rule
accepted
The trial Wednesday morning
applied only to a tribunal ap-
pointed under emergency regu-
wa s marked by angry exchanges
Vi
between defense counsel Max
lations in the occupied terri-
ftra
tories. lie said that a military
Kritzman and the key prosecti-
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tribunal appointed under the mil-
Lion witness, Gen. Zeevi. who
the
took command of Lydda Air-
itary code, which is part of
Israeli penal code and which
port immediately after the may-
sits inside Israeli teuitory, can
sacre.
impose capital punishment with-
The tough. outspoken officer ad
out having two jurists on the
mated that he had offered to give
bench.
Okamoto a pistol with one bullet
The tribunal trying the Japan-
If he cooperated with his inter -
rogators and told the truth. The ese gunman was appointed under
Israeli penal code, which
offer was made after the prisoner the
repeatedly expressed the wish that stems from the British emergency
he had died along with his two regulations in effect during the
rompanions after their machine Palestine Mandate.
Inasmuch as it is sitting in Israel
gun and grenade attack in the
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Gen Zeevi said he had no in. on Israeli territory, it can impose
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