Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Court Justice William O. Douglas, vacationing near Goose Prairie, Wash., who first sent agley the Army's well-laid plans for dispatching reluctant reservists off to war. Douglas ordered the Pentagon to delay the departure to Viet Nam of 113 reservists attached to a supply company stationed at Fort Meade, Md. The group asked the full court to rule on the President's constitutional right to call them up in the first place. They will now remain in the U.S. until next month, when the court will determine whether it wants to hear their case...
Reservists across the U.S. have eagerly followed Fort Meade's suit. Using similar arguments, lawyers last week were busy appealing their way to the Supreme Court on behalf of 13 members of an Army postal unit and 83 logistics troopers at Fort Lee, Va., and 23 finance clerks at Fort Benning, Ga. At Fort Riley, Kans., soldiers belonging to a reserve warehousing unit hired a lawyer to try to block their departure to Viet Nam. A suit filed in Federal Court in Hawaii earlier this month has added a new twist. Lawyers for 257 soldiers of the 29th Infantry...
...there and do wrong to our own people. I can't see myself spraying tear gas on my fellow people." A few minutes after 6 a.m., a colonel vainly ordered the 43 to leave the parking lot. Then MPs closed in and quietly led the protesters off to Fort Hood's barbed-wire stockade...
...lawful order must be obeyed," said a Pentagon general about the unpleasantness at Fort Hood. "It is as simple as that." It is not, of course, by any means as simple as that. The Army may well be summoned into action again in Negro ghettos in the future, and the generals are troubled by the possibility that black soldiers will find that they owe higher fealty to the black community than to the U.S. Army. "The problem is so fearful," admits one officer, "that we won't even discuss these people as Negroes." Yet the Army, officially colorblind, cannot...
Sensibly, the generals are therefore straining to prevent the protest at Fort Hood from becoming a case of Negroes v. the Army. When the demonstration began, the soldiers' division commander, Major General John K. Boles Jr., even spent close to an hour pleading with the recalcitrant troopers, persuaded 17 men to abandon the sit-in and return to barracks. By arresting the 43, in the parking lot, the Army ruled out bringing a charge of refusal to board the airlift to Chicago later in the day. The Army might also have tried them en masse. Instead, they will...