Okinawa officials described as 'nuts and wimps'

NAHA, Japan - Lt. Gen. Earl Hailston (file photo), chief of U.S. forces in Okinawa Prefecture, has called Okinawa prefectural officials, including Gov. Keiichi Inamine, ''nuts and wimps,'' informed sources said Feb. 6. ''I think they are all nuts and a bunch of wimps,'' Hailston said in his e-mail sent to 13 U.S. officers in Okinawa on Jan. 23, concerning the latest indecent acts conducted by a Marine in the town of Kin in northern Okinawa on Jan. 9.

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