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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week a six-officer general-court-martial board, four of them Viet Nam war veterans, turned aside attempts by Lockman's attorneys to argue that the order was unlawful because the war is "illegal and unjust." The board took eleven minutes to find Lockman guilty, 20 minutes to agree on a sentence of 30 months hard labor, loss of pay and dishonorable discharge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Two Who Stayed Home | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

...raised a storm of protest from the trade unions, long the backbone of the party. The unions angrily charge that the party has sold out its Socialist principles in return for a role as junior partner to the conservative Christian Democrats in Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger's eleven-month-old Grand Coalition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Socialist Showdown | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

...production lines, or running railroads; in others, they are busy restoring law and order and knocking heads together. Last week, as the semiannual Canton trade fair opened a month late, heavily armed soldiers patrolled the fair site with fixed bayonets-the first time in the fair's eleven-year history that such protection has been felt necessary. "Now we must rely on the army," Defense Minister Lin Piao said recently, "and it must not make mistakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Army in Command | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

Their coaches blame this year's scores on the Ivy League's quarterbacks-particularly on their passing skills. Yale's Brian Dowling has 31 completions in 79 attempts for seven touchdowns in five games; Harvard's Ric Zimmerman already has eleven TD passes to his credit compared with seven all last year. Then there is a general inconsistency to contend with. Says Princeton's Coach Dick Colman: "With no spring practice and other things on their minds, our players don't have time to be letter-perfect. On any given day, anything can happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Blood on the Ivy | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

...Hitler era still haunt the Promised Land. In a Polish concentration camp, Nazi guards tell Haim Kalinsky that since his two sons are so "nice," they will kill only one of them-thus forcing on him a sadistic perversion of Abraham's choice. Kalinsky selects his favorite, eleven-year-old Shmuel, to be spared, while six-year-old Daniel is led away to be slaughtered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Remorse & Victory | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

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