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...former Ohio National Guardsman called before the Kent State federal grand jury refused to testify yesterday and asked for full immunity, his attorney said...
...true that caning and cold baths serve to develop moral character, as any old-school guardsman would attest, then the English character may decline to an almost Mediterranean level. As of Jan. 1, corporal punishment is being banned in London's 620 state primary schools (the equivalent of public elementary schools in the U.S.), which have about 174,000 students aged five to 15. The ban does not apply to the city's secondary schools, private and church-supported schools, or to those outside London, but educators in these institutions will be watching closely to judge the effects...
...chemical-spraying helicopters: fire trucks could not reach the scene. Most buildings burned to the waterline. Perhaps the grisliest scene was at nearby Forty Fort, where flood waters churned up some 200 coffins. National Guardsmen were assigned to rebury the dead. "I can't stop vomiting," one Guardsman said. "I think I'm losing my mind." Said Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp: "WilkesBarre took the worst beating of any community in the state...
...Viet Nam as a demolition expert and pilot and won both the Army Commendation Medal and Distinguished Flying Cross. A warrant officer in the Utah National Guard, McCoy showed up for a scheduled training stint only hours after parachuting from the United plane in a risky night maneuver. Fellow Guardsman Van leperen said McCoy had given no indication at the Guard session that anything was amiss. "Richard's my best friend," he added in disbelief. "He's one of the finest people I know." McCoy's well-publicized hijacking quickly triggered others...
...ferocity of the police attack apparently did not subside with the end of the shooting. Guardsman James P. Watson, 24, a law student, testified in a federal court that unresisting naked convicts, standing with hands on heads, were poked in the groin, rectum and legs with clubs to make them run through a gauntlet of guards, who kicked and beat them. Some inmates fell, he said, and guards chased others into a building. Standing near by, Watson heard "screams and moans and the sounds of clubs hitting flesh and bone." Days later, four outside doctors confirmed reports of brutality...