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...suggests the obvious solutions. Move important cases into the civilian courts. Tighten up the Uniform Code of Military Justice to get rid of the vague language that sanctions arbitrary sallies against the constitutional rights of servicemen-sections like Article 134 which prohibits "all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces." Sherill is also well aware that with the House and Senate Armed Services Committees in tight control of congressional action on the Armed Forces, the prospects of even minor reforms-much less the overhaul suggested above-are meagre. Sherill, therefore, wraps up his volume with...

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: Books Marching in Place | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

...call to "organize politically," if it remains so vague, may eventually discredit the strike. May's strictures on anti-war protest, clumsily delivered at Sanders, keyed on this moot point. His program for write-your-Congressman met hooting and cat-calls. However trite the idea, it confronts all too clearly the limits on political action this month. The same night that May spoke, George McGovern publicly asked students to keep their protest germane to the challenge which will face Nixon in Congress. They should write letters, pressure Congressmen, and circulate petitions on the relevant issue. McGovern's appeal will arouse...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: Harvard Meetings and Movements | 5/7/1970 | See Source »

...Camejo. a member of the Socialist Workers' Party (SWP). The focus of the rally, according to Richard W. Osborne '72, is a kickoff for a referendum on the war that SMC hopes to get on the ballot in November. SMC also focuses on peace campaigns "in an attempt to discredit Nixon's silent majority." and is planning a repeat of Vietnam Summer in Boston...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: Another April: the War Goes On | 4/9/1970 | See Source »

...Captain Reilly, the now identified forger, has a marvelous history of spy intrigue in Europe which shows he was capable of planning a large scale campaign to discredit Leftist parties...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Harvard Plates Solve Mystery British Spy Forged 'Zinoviev Letter' | 2/17/1970 | See Source »

...Mekong Delta, a sector that is unfamiliar to them but is rapidly becoming one of the most crucial areas of the war. To bolster South Viet Nam's defenses there, President Nguyen Van Thieu last week replaced two top military commanders in the Delta. The North, determined to discredit President Nixon's Vietnamization plan, has ordered two full regiments and possibly parts of three others into the area to confront Saigon's forces. The result has indeed posed a problem for Vietnamization- but for Hanoi's brand as well as Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: North Viet Nam: Year of the Dog | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

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