Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...Pentagon has just announced that it will stop serving beef stew in military mess halls next year because it costs too much to prepare. Instead, troops will get more hamburger or meatballs (which they prefer anyway). In another move prompted by price increases, President Nixon last week asked Congress to raise social security benefits by 10% and to provide for automatic increases in the future geared to the cost of living...
...from being final, the decision now shifts to Congress, which must pass the appropriations. A spirited debate has raged within the Administration for seven months. Opposing the SST were Nixon's science aide, Lee DuBridge, and Hendrik Houthakker of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Supporting it were Secretary of Transportation John Volpe, Federal Aviation Administrator John Shaffer, and a genuine American hero, Charles A. Lindbergh, who personally presented the case for the SST to the President...
...sheer momentum of technology. After the SST will come the hypersonic transport, with speeds of 5,000 m.p.h., and then suborbital flight. Each step will eventually be taken for the same reason that man climbed Mount Everest: it was there, waiting to be conquered. The still unresolved questions, which Congress must answer, are whether technology must move at a forced-march pace, and whether the boom of supersonic flight in the 1970s is worth the proposed investment of national talent and treasure...
Washington sources and Harvard officials expressed the view yesterday that while the provision will probably become law, the Defense Department might circumvent it by defining all their research grants as having a direct military application. They added, however, that if the Department adopts this stance, Congress may act again with even tighter controls...