Word: martialled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born of an obscure Nottinghamshire family, Allenby could nevertheless claim a martial ancestor of distinction: Oliver Cromwell. Still, he joined the army merely by mischance, having previously failed his civil service exams. A big quiet clumsy boy, he passed out twelfth in his class at Sandhurst, and was promptly gazetted to the Inniskilling Dragoons near Durban, South Africa, where he spent the better part of the next 20 years. When the Boer War began, he was 38 and had never fired a shot in anger. When the war was over, he was a tough, cunning, unbeatable commander of cavalry...
...reaction to today's draft is also different from any previous one because of the nature of the war in Viet Nam. No martial spirit is evident; there is no easily visible enemy. The most extreme-and untypical-example of opposition to the draft is the Vietnik, who burns his draft card, defies the courts and generally makes a nuisance of himself. But even the average draftee who does not oppose the war in Viet Nam does not completely understand it, and is moved by no strong motivation to join it. "If students, for example, could feel the peril...
...East-West Institute offers lectures in Oriental philosophy and culture as well as macrobiotic meals. Kushi's latest bulletin lists such courses as Japanese Language and Literature. Tea Ceremony and Flower Arrangement, Aikido (a traditional Japanese martial art), Oriental Cocking, and Oriental Philosophy and its Applications...
...Ashe was accused of assaulting another sailor with a knife in Puerto Rico. Before they were jointly tried by a general court-martial, one of Ashe's two co-defendants told the Navy commander defending them that Ashe had been merely a bystander when the assault occurred. On taking the stand, the same man suddenly switched his story and implicated Ashe. Startled, the commander told the court: "I don't think I can represent them both properly." How could he defend one man without attacking the other? Not moved, the court ordered counsel to continue, and found...
Duty to Perform. Murphy realized that he had been handed a legal riddle. No longer a military prisoner, Ashe was not eligible for a federal writ of habeas corpus. And to make matters worse, Article 76 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice says that properly reviewed courts-martial are "final and conclusive," binding on all civilian courts. In an effort to bypass Article 76, Murphy argued that Ashe's court-martial was void from the start. In Massachusetts' U.S. District Court, where he sued Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to correct Ashe's record, Murphy pointed...