Word: coverted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...March 9, 1953, Mrs. Clarice Covert, an American citizen who had accompanied her U.S. Air Force husband on his assignment to Britain, told a psychiatrist that she was "just going to explode." Next day she exploded: she hacked Master Sergeant Edward Covert to death with an ax as he lay sleeping in their Heyfort home...
Under a previous agreement with the U.S. applying to crimes by civilians with the U.S. Armed Forces, Britain had waived its right to try Clarice Covert in its civil courts. She was sentenced to life imprisonment by a U.S. Air Force court-martial which acted under a section in the 1950 Uniform Code of Military Justice giving jurisdiction to military tribunals over "all persons serving with, employed by or accompanying" the U.S. Armed Forces overseas. Last week in Washington, Federal District Judge Edward A. Tamm declared that section of the Uniform Code to be unconstitutional and ordered Mrs. Covert...
...civilian employees of the armed forces. All these would seem to be placed in a sort of legal sanctuary by Judge Tamm's projection of the Toth decision. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons estimates that the Tamm ruling could free at least 50 persons who, like Mrs. Covert, were civilians overseas with the armed forces and therefore beyond the reach of the U.S. civil courts at the time they committed their crimes. Among these is Mrs. Dorothy Krueger Smith (daughter of General Walter Krueger, Sixth Army commander in the Pacific during World War II), who is now serving...
...Covert Offensive. The incident that touched off last week's Gaza flare-up might have happened any day. Israeli soldiers, their command cars stacked with small arms, sped on routine border patrol close to an Egyptian command post. Suddenly there was shooting. Caught in the open without cover, the Israelis, guns blazing, crossed the border and took the command post. When they retired, they left three Egyptians dead...
...real right thing. He spent 72 nights in the field during three consecutive Aprils before he found the wood grouse fighting in a satisfactory light. He once waited 28 hours beneath a tree in order to capture a lynx when it came down, and he built 36 kinds of covert before he discovered an adequate way to hide and shelter himself and his camera. The film took three years to complete, cost more ($120,000) than Sucksdorff had in pocket. His chief backer: Dag Hammarskjold. Secretary-General...