Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Special Cases, Special Care. In practice, foreign courts have dealt so gently with G.I.s that the U.S. has rarely felt the need to intervene. Of 4,437 American servicemen, dependents and civilian auxiliaries brought to trial in foreign courts in a one-year period, 275 were acquitted, 3,876 got minor fines and reprimands, 178 drew sentences of imprisonment, which the foreign courts forthwith suspended. In all, 108 Americans were imprisoned-a year's total which, considering that it applies to 700,000 men, amounts to a remarkably low crime rate and one of the highest leniency rates...
...only Publisher Knight's newspaper but the U.S. Chamber of Commerce fell for the alleged "$300,000 boondoggle" [May 20] in the President's national defense budget. The $300,000 is the sole Government contribution to a program which involves nearly 4,000 civilian rifle and pistol clubs in the U.S. These clubs are not the plush hunting clubs so graphically pictured in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. They are modest clubs of marksmen who, on their own time, on their own ranges, and largely with their own weapons, keep alive the art of rifle marksmanship. The contribution made...
...last week the death of Mrs. Naka Sakai had become an international incident. Japan demanded that Girard be tried for manslaughter in a civilian court (likely sentence: two to 15 years). The U.S., in the person of Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, refused to release him from Army custody "pending a complete review of the matter...
With Rojas aboard a Colombian DC-4 bound for exile in Spain, the junta got to work. Calling in Opposition Leaders Valencia and Lleras Camargo, they began organizing a civilian Cabinet to help govern the country until next year's elections. At week's end, with the list drawn up, Bogotá was almost back to normal. Only one Colombian seemed to have completely missed the significance of the uprising. In Bermuda, where he stopped over with his wife and family, Rojas was asked what caused his downfall. "There was no revolution," he said. "I decided to turn...
Along with horror stories on boondoggle items such as "the $300,000 that the Army spends to finance Sunday morning recreation for civilian members of private rifle clubs," the Knight papers have run two-column pep talks urging readers to protest to their Congressmen, helped them out with maps of congressional districts and names of Representatives...