Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WASHINGTON-A special Pentagon report said yesterday that climinating the ROTC program would decrease civilian influence within the national defense system...
...panel asserted that officer education on civilian campuses "strengthens our traditional civilian participation in and influence upon the military," where as other training approaches "yield more to domination by the military organization acting...
...Indeed, insofar as some crities fear 'militaristic' influence in the national defense system, opposition to ROTC issingularly inappropriate-its abolition would decrease civilian influence...
...Civilian Rights. Enacted by Congress in 1950, the U.C.M.J. set up three categories of military trial: 1) summary courts-martial, which try only enlisted men for minor offenses that have a maximum sentence of one month in prison or 45 days at hard labor; 2) special courts-martial, which mainly try enlisted men for crimes that carry a bad-conduct discharge and up to six months in prison; and 3) general courts-martial, which handle serious crimes that can lead to life imprisonment and even the death penalty...
...civilian rules do not always work within the autocratic framework of the military. Under the U.C.M.J., the C.O. not only convened a general court-martial but appointed the prosecutor, law officer (judge) and veniremen for the court-martial board (jury); he even selected the defense counsel, though the accused could ask for another one. Thus the code did not eliminate the phenomenon known as "command control." Looking back on his experience as a Marine legal officer during the Korean War, Boston Trial Lawyer Joseph Oteri describes the C.O.'s influence on military courts this way: "The word always filtered...