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...Italy's ten stock exchanges were closed to protest a new law, effective next week, that will require brokers to report names of all stock buyers and sellers each day. Thus the government hopes to collect taxes that investors have blithely avoided in the past by trading in covert accounts...
...smash hit and carried the show for a month-long run. Some crib notes were submitted attached to all manner of haberdashery and footwear (usually pasted on insteps). But first prize went to a crib note running on tiny rollers, all concealed in a matchbox equipped with apertures for covert reading. Second prize: an inch-square scrap of onionskin paper bearing complete summaries, in three colors of ink, of three subjects. Third prize: an innocuous-looking chunk of rock crystal, ostensibly a paperweight, actually, when viewed from the proper angle, a powerful magnifier of a series of chemical formulas...
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...
Both Judge Tamm in the Covert case and the Supreme Court in its Toth decision suggested a possible solution to the dilemma. The Congress, they said, could enact legislation giving the U.S. civil courts jurisdiction over certain civilians abroad who are exempted, by treaty or otherwise, from the jurisdiction of local courts. As a Defense Department spokesman said last week, in referring to the armed forces dependents and employees overseas: "They are U.S. citizens and we cannot leave them free to go their merry way with no accountability. We want all our people accountable somewhere...