Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even before the court-martial was convened at Fort Benning in 1971, fairness loomed as the major problem. The My Lai massacre had been the most widely publicized military atrocity in U.S. history. Lieut. William Calley was the only defendant convicted, though 25 of his superiors and subordinates had been implicated in varying degrees. Had it been fair to single him out? With all the publicity, could he possibly have had a fair trial? Could he have had equitable treatment from a military system eager to purify itself...
...reduce a term on the vague basis of past "honorable service, penalties already paid under law, and such other mitigating factors as may be appropriate to seek equity." These judgments will be made by regional U.S. Attorneys or a military Joint Alternative Service Board at Indiana's Fort Benjamin Harrison under general guidelines from their Washington superiors. The scheme is designed to minimize inequities stemming from local prejudice...
...program got off to a slow start last week as only 18 military deserters reported to Fort Benjamin Harrison, where the joint review board is prepared to process some cases in as little as four days. The Pentagon released 95 convicted deserters from military prisons while their situations are being studied. Attorney General William Saxbe gave 30-day prison furloughs to 83 convicted evaders pending reviews...
From West Point to Korea, from the Pentagon to Viet Nam, he answered every call to duty. Then Richard Nixon called him one day when Haig, at the time a four-star general and Army vice chief of staff, was visiting Fort Benning. Haldeman and Ehrlichman, about to be thrown out of the White House, wanted Haig to come take charge of the staff. "I really don't think I'm the man," he said. "You don't want a military man in that...
...that week: The first stop on the five-page, single-spaced typed itinerary of the visit of A. Bennett, Reporter, was WAC center information office where we picked up two more people to follow me. Specialist Joe Burke, information specialist for WAC center, watched Sgt. Bronwen, information specialist for Fort McClellan, who watched me. And Sgt. Laura Hurlbut, senior in rank to both of them, observed...