Word: martial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tiger and Christian, Fritz Mühlenweg has written a jumbo-sized adventure story for youngsters old enough to read for themselves. His story begins with a martial skirr in the Peking of 1922. Warlord General Wu Pei-fu is marching on the city. Christian, the son of an American doctor, and his Chinese friend Big Tiger, both twelve, venture out to fly a kite and are snatched up by two of Wu's scouts. In dutiful obedience to their captors, the boys help them capture a whole trainload of military equipment. Delighted, General Wu sends the boys home...
...British Embassy and swarmed into the offices of the U.S. Information Service, setting it afire. Some 60 civilians and policemen were wounded and eleven or more killed. Regent Abdul Illah hastily appointed his army chief of staff, General Nur El Din Mahmoud, as Premier. General Mahmoud declared martial law in Baghdad Province, and a measure of order was restored by tear gas and armored-car patrols...
...duty, soldiers will be allowed to wear civilian clothing and will be required to salute only immediate superiors. (Formerly, an enlisted man entering a civilian restaurant had to salute every officer present and ask the highest-ranking for permission to eat there.) Civilian judges will participate in courts-martial and soldier-defendants will be free to choose their own lawyers and appeal their cases...
...correspondents were covering the war. He shipped his notes home to his wife, who passed them on to a publisher. This week, for his extracurricular writing, Voorhees 1) had a brand-new book, Korean Tales (Simon & Schuster; $3), and 2) faced a charge that may bring court-martial. The charge: 1) breaking the rule that all writing by soldiers on active duty must be cleared by the Army, 2) disobeying a superior who had specifically ordered him to clear the book...
...that the book was bound to create ill feeling between the press and Army and make it harder for officers to work with correspondents in the future. This week, his book ready to go into the stalls, Writer Voorhees prepared to face charges that may lead to a court-martial...