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Organized seven months ago to provide free civilian counsel for G.I.s in Viet Nam, the L.M.D.C. opened a three-man law office in Saigon headed by Henry Aronson, a leading civil rights lawyer who had been active in both Mississippi and New York. The Army indicated that it would cooperate. But soon after the L.M.D.C. represented three soldiers seeking conscientious-objector status (TIME, Nov. 23), Army cooperation vanished. A classified order directed all Army law offices in Viet Nam to submit monthly reports on L.M.D.C. activities-including "comments on compliance with ethical standards." Moreover, the Army refused...
L.M.D.C. attorneys have also been regularly denied use of military flights that are often the only way of reaching a G.I. client. As for being denied military phones, Aronson introduced a newspaper clipping about a whorehouse that had such a phone and added that to reach Client McLemore's military attorney he had had to place 233 calls to the military switchboard-only four of which ultimately got through to the right man. With all the obstacles, L.M.D.C. lawyers saw McLemore for the first time only one hour before going into the courtroom...
...defy you to find another team [in the league] that can score that many points." said forward Jon Aronson later that night in the Quincy House library...
Last week, Flores & Co. won their private Viet Nam War after all. To their aid came Henry Aronson of the Lawyers Military Defense Committee, set up three months ago by a group of U.S. lawyers and law professors (TIME. Oct. 19). Aronson's strongest argument was that the publicity surrounding the courts-martial would only encourage widespread abuse of the C.O. regulation. Hours before the proceedings were to begin at Danang last week, the Army dropped the charges...
Potential Clients. The Army has promised its cooperation and has informed L.M.D.C. Director Henry Aronson, who is scheduled to arrive in Saigon this week, that the military will follow his activities "with interest." That is an understatement. A former civil rights lawyer for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, Aronson suggests that the L.M.D.C. may defend not only soldiers facing routine criminal charges but also those who buck military authority in exercising their constitutional rights. Among potential clients: frontline soldiers who question the legality of a superior's order...