Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Turkish government last week rescinded a little law requiring internal exile for foreigners convicted of certain minor crimes. Most such exiles would have been overjoyed; not so U.S. Army Private Kenneth Baldwin, 30, whose banishment to isolated Kusadasi has turned out to be more a reward than a punishment (TIME, June...
Peace at No Price. For all that, the regular Times reader could not miss the fact that among the paper's senior staffers, opinion on Viet Nam is less than unanimous. Last February, Military Affairs Editor Hanson W. Baldwin wrote an article for the Sunday magazine urging the U.S. to step up its commitment to Viet Nam and prepare for a long war. "Viet Nam is a nasty place to fight," said Baldwin. "But there are no neat and tidy battlefields in the struggle for freedom; there is no 'good' place...
...Banished American" [June 25]: It seems to me that while in Kusadasi, Ken Baldwin has not only served adequate time for his circumstantial crime, but has taken a somewhat distasteful situation and converted it into a diplomatic mission. Since he has done so much to ease and elevate the Turkish view of America, I can see no reason why the U.S. Army can't find the compassion in its heart to pardon Mr. Baldwin...
...impressive-sounding North Channel Yacht Club is a small, roofless dock where islanders assemble for a beer or two after races. Three or four fairly primitive tennis courts have been rolled out in the woods on a couple of larger islands. One established resident is Lucien Wulsin, president of Baldwin Pianos, another is Dr. Derrick Vail, famed eye surgeon. Adlai Stevenson is a frequent visitor. Desbarats is, as a Chicago women's editor sighed, "very, very chic...
...Baldwin himself, his morale is high except when he broods about his bad-conduct discharge, which does not become effective until his banishment is up and he returns to the U.S. He says, "I made a mistake, but I have tried to make up for it. I would like to go out of the army clean and with self-respect." If Kusadasi had a vote, Baldwin's honorable discharge would long since have been in his hand...