Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Standing nervously before ten officers, Captain Howard Brett Levy listened to their verdict, his hands clasped behind his back, and then returned wordlessly to his seat. Thus the court-martial of the antiwar doctor drew to its predictable conclusion last week at Fort Jackson, S.C. The court found Levy guilty of disobeying an order and two lesser counts of promoting "disloyalty and disaffection" among Army troops bound for Viet Nam. His sentence: three years' imprisonment at hard labor, a dishonorable discharge, and forfeiture of all pay and allowances...
...turnout, the Peace Action Council of Southern California, which claims some 60 member organizations, promises that the dinner will at least set one new record. When Johnson makes his first political appearance in the Golden State since 1964, says the group, he will be greeted by "the largest antiwar demonstration in history...
...violence of his revulsion against the war, especially the bombing of cities, crucial to his conscientious objection: Raise us, Mother, we fell down Here hugger mugger in the jellied fire: Our sacred earth in our day was a curse. Many of his antiwar poems were written at Damariscotta Mills, Me., where he and his wife had gone as soon as he was released from jail. Collected in Lord Weary's Castle, his second volume, they won him, at 29, the Pulitzer Prize...
...seemed at first a pedestrian case ambling toward a predictable conclusion. An obscure physician from Brooklyn, drafted into the Army and clearly a military misfit, was haled before a general court-martial, charged with preaching antiwar dogma to enlisted men and refusing to teach them dermatology as he had been ordered. But last week the case of Captain Howard Levy took on unexpected significance both as a precedent in military law and as a chapter in the worldwide debate over the Vietnamese war. For the first time in a U.S. military court, the war-crimes doctrine of Nürnberg...
...dropped. The defense, led by Charles Morgan Jr., southeastern regional director of the American Civil Liberties Union, was so astonished at the ruling that war-crimes evidence would be heard that it had none to offer immediately. Instead Morgan won a recess until this week and called on antiwar propagandists to volunteer proof of his statement: "I think we can prove there is a policy of eradication of the Vietnamese people who won't support our side...