Word: martialled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Standing nervously before ten officers, Captain Howard Brett Levy listened to their verdict, his hands clasped behind his back, and then returned wordlessly to his seat. Thus the court-martial of the antiwar doctor drew to its predictable conclusion last week at Fort Jackson, S.C. The court found Levy guilty of disobeying an order and two lesser counts of promoting "disloyalty and disaffection" among Army troops bound for Viet Nam. His sentence: three years' imprisonment at hard labor, a dishonorable discharge, and forfeiture of all pay and allowances...
During his drawn-out court-martial on charges of military misconduct, Captain Howard Brett Levy and his attorney have spiced the otherwise routine trial with dark hints that U.S. Special Forces in Viet Nam were guilty of war crimes as heinous as any condemned at Nurnberg two decades ago (TIME, May 26). Last week, in an unexpectedly bold move, the Army court allowed Levy's attorney to wage the first "Nurnberg defense" in a U.S. court-martial. To the surprise of almost no one, it failed dismally...
...Cairo, Nasser's own two sons volunteered for military service, inspired not only by their father's swollen rhetoric but by the martial music that suddenly took the place of whiny Arab folk songs on Radio Cairo. The absentee-prone Lebanese parliament, perhaps the world's most unmartial body, became so incensed that it took the warlike step of ending its emergency session with a wildly off-key singing of the national anthem. National Guardsmen in Da mascus had a fine time stopping all traffic on the city's wide boulevards and ordering everyone to take...
...this the defense offered no factual opposition. Morgan argued that the case should be thrown out on a variety of grounds, ranging from constitutional guarantees of free speech to the fact that WACs are excluded from court-martial panels. "It is the right, indeed the duty," said Morgan, "of all Americans to think, to dream and to talk." However, the most serious charge against Levy is that he refused to carry out a direct order given in writing...
Kettledrums sounded, trumpets blared, and an Irish Guards band played martial airs in the streets as 2,000 invited dignitaries and 500,000 Roman Catholics celebrated the consecration of Liverpool's new Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King on Whitsunday. Constructed over the past 41 years at a cost of $11,200,000, the cone-shaped cathedral in concrete rises to a stately stained-glass lantern tower capped with a crown of finials, which lights up at night atop one of Liverpool's two hills. The other hill, half a mile away, is already topped by the Gothic...