Word: awol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AWOL, servicemen seeking sanctuary in Boston University's Marsh Chapel turned himself over to the authorities Tuesday night with the aid of a B.U. student...
...AWOL Marine left Boston University's March Chapel late last night, only a few hours after he and another serviceman had sought sanctuary in the chapel...
...RATHER BE wise and sensitive than clear," Krister Stendahl, Dean of the Divinity School, said yesterday, explaining how his Faculty was dealing with the "serious questions and thorny questions" raised by an AWOL marine seeking sanctuary in the Andover chapel. Students have already pledged to support Paul Olimpieri with passive civil disobedience, should federal marshals come to remove him, and for a faculty that last fall supported divinity school students resisting the draft, it would tortuous to cast out a marine deserting in moral disgust at the Vietnam War or to condemn students trying to help...
...more uncomfortable than the ordinary barracks of South Viet Nam. Located in the middle of the Army's main supply and administration center twelve miles northeast of Saigon, it houses 700 prisoners in a barbed-wire compound built for 400. Their crimes range from smoking pot or going AWOL to theft and murder, and as an M.P. staff officer puts it, the prisoners create "every kind of problem that you find in a civilian prison...
...question arose in the case of Army SP4 Clayton Anderson, a 14-year veteran who went AWOL while stationed at Fort Polk, La., in November 1964. Anderson turned himself in on February 10, 1967, and was eventually found guilty of "unauthorized absence." But under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the statute of limitations for prosecution of an unauthorized absence is two years-except "in time of war." Congress, said Anderson's lawyers, has yet to declare war. The peacetime statute of limitations had run out before their client was tried. Therefore he should be freed...