Word: martial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old ex-dictator's dramatics, the prosecutor came day after day to Mossadegh's room in the army barracks and piled up statements and evidence. At week's end, the government announced that Mossadegh eventually will be tried by a military court-martial for his "illegal acts" against the Shah and the country between Aug. 15, when the Shah fired him as Premier, and Aug. 19, when the mobs chased him from power and recalled the Shah from his brief exile in Rome...
...Shah's court and the government could not agree on whether to hold the court-martial in public and run the chance that Mossadegh might steal the stage, nor had they settled on the punishment to be exacted. Theoretically, he could be condemned to death as a traitor. But in the streets, Mossadegh still commanded great popularity, and the Communist-led Tudeh (in spite of vigorous government efforts to defang it by throwing its leaders into jail) was busy last week cooking up sentiment for a pro-Mossadegh uprising. Those who feared that Mossadegh's wizardry might live...
...When they found him at work, the APs handcuffed him, took him to the Greater Pittsburgh Airport, where he was ordered aboard a military plane. Five days later, Toth, who had gotten his honorable discharge five months earlier, was in a guardhouse in Taegu, Korea, awaiting trial by court-martial on a charge of murder...
Last week an Air Force court-martial in Korea sentenced the officer of the guard, Lieut. George Schreiber, 25, to life imprisonment. At the same time, the life sentence of Airman Thomas L. Kinder, 21, the guard who fired the fatal shot, was reduced to two years. No one questioned the sentences, or the military's right to try Kinder and Schreiber. who are still in the Air Force. But the case of Bob Toth, a civilian, is a different matter...
...country with no hearing before a competent civilian authority. The Air Force claimed the authority of Article 3a of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which states that former servicemen who committed major crimes while in military service "shall not be relieved from amenability to trial by courts-martial by reason of the termination of said status." Lawyer McGrath (who died later of a heart attack) questioned the constitutionality of Article...