Word: disobeying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last man shot" syndrome. Thus, when such a patrol was ordered at Fire Base Pace last week, five 1st Air Cav G.I.s took advantage of the presence of a visiting freelance newsman, Richard Boyle, to announce that they did not intend to go. They did not actually disobey a direct order, however, and when they were given such a direct command next day they did go on patrol...
...Eventually, claims Hammer, the outgunned defense tried to turn the court-martial into a near trial of Galley's commander, Captain Ernest L. Medina. The defense produced soldiers who claimed that Medina had ordered the slaughter of civilians. Calley, it was argued, had no choice; he could not disobey his superior. Medina denied giving such orders, and the Army's young prosecutor, Captain Aubrey M. Daniel III, was able to draw from a surprising number of defense witnesses the admission that they had disobeyed Galley's order to fire into the assembled groups of civilians -without being...
...blunter: a soldier must disobey an order that "a man of ordinary sense and understanding would know to be illegal...
...recent past offers any indication for the future, university officials here and elsewhere will have to weigh the likely outcome of even the most ominously worded legislation against what they might lose-in terms of other federal protection or federal money-if they decide to disagree or disobey...