Word: disobeying
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...impassive Junker who was known as the "smasher of cities" for leading blitzkriegs against Rotterdam and Sevastopol, became military chief of Paris in 1944, and was commanded by Hitler to repel the enemy or leave the city "a blackened field of ruins," but chose for the first time to disobey an order and secretly invited the Allies to enter Paris in order to save it, while Hitler angrily demanded, "Is Paris burn ing'?"-the words later made famous by the book and the movie, which will open in the U.S. this week; in Baden-Baden, West Germany...
...probable, however, that the most the Faculty could do would be to approve a resolution declaring that it disagreed with Selective Service regulations as presently constituted. Dean Ford has stated that the University will not disobey any federal laws or procedures with regard to the draft...
...similar cases have been removed from local Southern courts to the presumably fairer federal benches. Nonetheless, said Justice Potter Stewart for the majority, until Congress changes the situation, "no federal law confers an absolute right on private citizens-on civil rights advocates, on Negroes, or on anybody else"-to disobey valid local ordinances...
...offense was more prosaic-he had simply refused to report for induction-but his defense was far more grandiose. Contending that the U.S. is committing genocide and other crimes against world law in Viet Nam, he cited the Nurnberg war-trial verdicts as an injunction on all citizens to disobey illegal orders from their governments. Mitchell was convicted and sentenced to five years after his first trial in Federal District Court in New Haven, Conn., but the Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the conviction on procedural grounds...
Although the University fought the Oath in 1935--and officials have criticized it repeatedly since then--the Corporation decided not to disobey the law by refusing to fire Bowles. The campaign organized by Bowles and his supporters should provide officials with the opportunity to reverse this neutral stance without engaging in an act of lone defiance. We hope the University will explicitly state its opposition to the oath, and join other universities across the state in a movement to repeal...