Milestones Jul. 16, 2001

SENTENCED. ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR., to 30 days in prison; for trespassing during a protest of U.S. Navy bombing exercises on Vieques; in San Juan. The latest of several high-profile protesters to be imprisoned, Kennedy may miss the birth of his sixth child, expected this week.

TURNED OVER. TIMOTHY WOODLAND, 24, U.S. Air Force sergeant accused of raping a Japanese woman in her 20s in a parking lot last month; to local authorities; in Okinawa, Japan. The U.S. released Woodland into Japanese custody without an indictment after the Japanese government agreed to allow him access to legal counsel and a translator...

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