ataan Death March
try to sue Japan
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United Press International
■ ALBUQUERQUE — A Ba
taan Death March survivor says
iEjapanese people placed in de
tention camps in World War II
hjtve the right to seek damages
flom the U.S. government, he
should be able to sue the
Jlpanese government.
I Leo Padilla, who observed his
|cih birthday in a Japanese pris-
er-of-war camp, said he has
ked to other survivors of the
42 march and subsequent
farced labor and said “I imagine
efery one of them” would be in-
teiested in seeking damages.
■ Rep. Manuel Lujan, R-N.M,
will introduce legislation
Wednesday designed to circum
vent the 1951 peace treaty with
jlpan, which specified that
+ nlither member of the newly-
f|rged alliance would sue the
o|her for wartime damages.
Padilla said he started talking
to other survivors about the pro
hibition about three years ago
bfit had never done anything ab-
oyt it until recently.
[He said his interest was re
vived after the U.S. Supreme
Court ruled that Japanese na
tionals interned in detention
camps in the United States dur
ing the war could sue the U.S.
government for damages.
“When we saw the Japanese
nationals could do it, we thought
maybe we had the same right,”
Padilla said Friday.
Now 60, Padilla was 17 years
old when he and other members
of the 200th Coast Artillery were
ordered to the Philippines in
1941. The Japanese invaded the
islands in December of that year.
When Manila fell Jan. 2,
1942, Gen. Douglas MacArthur
ordered his troops to fall back to
Bataan so they would not be di
vided by the Japanese.
They fought a delaying action
down the 30-mile-long, 15-mile
wide peninsula, which military
historians later said disrupted
the Japanese timetable for con
quest in the Pacific.
President Roosevelt ordered
MacArthur off Corregidor Is
land — at the southern tip of
Bataan — March 11, 1942, to go
to Australia and assume com
mand of all allied forces in the
western Pacific.
Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wain-
wright continued the fight on
Bataan until April 9, 1942, when
he retreated to Corregidor, and
surrendered April 18.
The Death March followed,
with the Japanese force mar
ching 70,000 captured U.S. and
Philippine troops 55 miles back
up the mountainous, jungle-
covered peninsula.
Only 54,000 reached Camp
O’Donnell. Of that group, the
ones that survived hunger, thirst
and disease in the camp were
sent to various plants producing
material for the Japanese war
effort.
Padilla said he and others of
his artillery unit had been serv
ing as infantrymen at the south
ern end of Bataan when “about
100 Japanese infantry came
over a hill and took us. We were
in foxholes.”
Padilla spent 42 months as a
prisoner, and was released in
October 1945.
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Suspect sought in aggravated
robbery charge, lost in woods
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IREDELL — A man armed
with a pistol held half a dozen
bank employees at gunpoint
while he rummaged through
cash drav/ers and the vault at the
Iredell State Bank Saturday and
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amount of cash, a witness re
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Tommy Joe Williamson, 47,
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“He said, ‘I’m crazy. I’m
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“He had everybody lay on the
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through the bank’s cash drawers
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African lioness named Cuervo,
who escaped from her owners
May 16, apparently choked to
death while onlookers tried to
untangle a chain around her
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of the 100-pound lioness was
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A&M University Friday for an
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The normally docile pet
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and Debbie Lovell, by breaking
her restraining chain while the
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home near Bryan to the Lake
Somerville area.
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Cuervo, dragging an eight-foot
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Alonzo said Cuervo’s chain
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The sheriff said some men
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chain.
“Then all of a sudden she quit
fighting and got quiet. I’m not
sure, but I think she choked to
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