Word: law
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civilian rules do not always work within the autocratic framework of the military. Under the U.C.M.J., the C.O. not only convened a general court-martial but appointed the prosecutor, law officer (judge) and veniremen for the court-martial board (jury); he even selected the defense counsel, though the accused could ask for another one. Thus the code did not eliminate the phenomenon known as "command control." Looking back on his experience as a Marine legal officer during the Korean War, Boston Trial Lawyer Joseph Oteri describes the C.O.'s influence on military courts this way: "The word always filtered...
...take full advantage of a lenient appeal procedure. After automatic review by the convening authority and an Army court of review, they can take the case to the Court of Military Appeals and then try to shift it to the federal courts. The Army, which likes to prosecute its law violators in private, is not likely to appreciate all the notoriety. The savvy lawyers on the defense team could easily bend the system to turn the accused into heroes...
...theory, the 15 judges of the World Court in The Hague form the top tribunal for resolving disputes under international law. In fact, they have decided only about two dozen largely forgettable cases since 1946. Now the judges yearn to leave the Peace Palace that has been their headquarters. Most of them are in their 70s, and they complain that drafts in the palace are conducive to rheumatism. In a resolution currently before the United Nations, they seek to revise a U.N. statute that restricts the court to The Hague...
...Holland. Privately, a few concede that they would prefer a warmer climate such as the French Riviera, where several have villas. In a memorandum to the U.N., they argue that the palace, "while a noble monument, is totally un suitable" and that The Hague has never become the world law capital that idealists once envisioned. Embarrassed, the Dutch government has renewed an offer of a new site plus $12 million to ward construction of a new building. Meantime, the Swiss government is offering a scenic site in Lausanne...
...baby doctor, and William Sloane Coffin, Yale's conscience-driven chaplain. They were, in fact, precisely the kind of men whose voices are supposed to be heard on key issues in a free society. Yet their voices had allegedly been jointly raised in support of violations of the law...