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Samborski told the CRIMSON that his election signified no attempt to head off the possible Ivy League secession. He was elected to represent the NCAA's District #1, which includes most of the schools in the North-East. Each district has a member on the Council...
Even so, Ashe spent 15 months in federal prisons and was dishonorably discharged. At the time, there was no U.S. Court of Military Appeals (founded in 1950) to review cases like his. And federal district courts could not then spring a military prisoner merely because effective counsel had been denied him. Ashe got no help until 1963, when the Veterans of Foreign Wars put him in touch with Richard Murphy, a brand-new graduate of Boston University Law School...
...worse, Article 76 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice says that properly reviewed courts-martial are "final and conclusive," binding on all civilian courts. In an effort to bypass Article 76, Murphy argued that Ashe's court-martial was void from the start. In Massachusetts' U.S. District Court, where he sued Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to correct Ashe's record, Murphy pointed to a 1962 law that gives district courts jurisdiction for the first time over cases in which a U.S. official has been asked "to perform a duty owed to the plaintiff...
Although the district court still refused to take jurisdiction in light of Article 76, the appellate court saw things Murphy's way-and thus spelled out an exception to Article 76 that may well embolden other ex-servicemen in Ashe's situation. In effect, Ashe v. McNamara is another sign that U.S. military justice is gradually assuming many of the standards of civilian justice. Not only is Ashe ecstatic; his boss is so pleased that he has ordered the Navy veteran to resume his tenth-grade education at the company's expense...
First Call. The facility's basic plant, the ninth domestic petrochemical operation for fast-growing Phillips, will be erected on 400 acres of sugar-cane fields in Guayama district on Puerto Rico's south shore. Phillips will invest $45 million in the core plant, receive a twelve-year tax forgiveness, get on stream in 21 months. Then the company will reinvest its earnings for ten years (to a total of $55 million) in a string of satellite petrochemical plants on 2,600 surrounding acres. The satellites will be owned jointly by Phillips, other U.S. companies and Puerto Rican...