Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presence will also have a beneficent impact on the countries involved. The huge new ports that are being scooped out along the coasts of Viet Nam and Thailand should permanently boost the economies of both nations. Vast, U.S.-banked civilian-aid programs are aimed at eradicating the ancient ills of disease, illiteracy and hunger...
...been handed a legal riddle. No longer a military prisoner, Ashe was not eligible for a federal writ of habeas corpus. And to make matters worse, Article 76 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice says that properly reviewed courts-martial are "final and conclusive," binding on all civilian courts. In an effort to bypass Article 76, Murphy argued that Ashe's court-martial was void from the start. In Massachusetts' U.S. District Court, where he sued Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to correct Ashe's record, Murphy pointed to a 1962 law that gives district courts jurisdiction...
...appellate court saw things Murphy's way-and thus spelled out an exception to Article 76 that may well embolden other ex-servicemen in Ashe's situation. In effect, Ashe v. McNamara is another sign that U.S. military justice is gradually assuming many of the standards of civilian justice. Not only is Ashe ecstatic; his boss is so pleased that he has ordered the Navy veteran to resume his tenth-grade education at the company's expense...
...began blasting away. The military insists that the rebels opened up first at a Jeep patrol. Either way, the soldiers were soon spraying the building with .50-cal. machine guns, then pounding it with 75-mm. shells from three tanks that rumbled over from the base. In the hotel, civilian bystanders cowered in hallways and closets, while rebel snipers in the top stories methodically cut down advancing air force troops...
Fonda plays a folksy intelligence officer whose outlook remains sensible and somehow civilian. This, the film implies, puts him one up on the hardheaded military professionals (Dana Andrews, Robert Ryan) who refuse to believe, until too late, that the Germans are planning a massive attack. A Nazi tank commander (Robert Shaw) has driven a spearhead deep into U.S. positions before Fonda, eyes twinkling, brightly deduces that the enemy is short of fuel...