Word: martialled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Army meanwhile made clear that dissent is for civilians. Lieut. Henry Howe Jr., 23, was photographed in November carrying a placard that read: "End Johnson's fascist aggression in Viet Nam." Last week a court-martial at Fort Bliss, Texas, found him guilty of showing contempt of authority and conduct unbecoming an officer. Howe was sentenced to two years at hard labor and dismissal from the service...
...throughout the countryside remain antagonistic to any government of Saigonese Catholics. Ky has been notably more tolerant towards the Buddists than his predecessors, but the fact that the Catholic minority still holds power over the large Bhuddist majority will continue to preclude a concensus. Student demonstrations against the harsh martial law which Ky imposed last June became so intense during September that the Premier was forced to suppress them with troops. When the government made support of neutralism a capital offense on July 24, several moderates and academics were subsequently shot...
...tribesmen achieved in neighboring Rwanda after overthrowing a Watutsi king in 1959. But Burundi's Watutsis are as determined as ever to continue in the ascendancy they now enjoy. Not surprisingly, the Mwami's men dealt harshly with last week's rebels. After a hurried court-martial, 34 Bahutu gendarmes were executed by a firing squad in the Bujumbura stadium. A bleak future probably also lay ahead for several leading Bahutu politicians, including the former president of Burundi's Parliament, who were clapped in jail and charged with complicity...
...crackdown only enraged the Bahutus. From the countryside at week's end, came reports of machete-wielding Bahutus chopping down scores of Watutsis and burning villages. Mwami Mwambutsa clamped the entire country under martial...
...anyone who loves a parade the military spectacle has the spit and polish, precision, pomp and pageantry that only the British can bring off-an act that will still be burnished bright when the Beatles are balding, a martial display that could convert a Quaker. The near capacity opener in New York last week marked the sixth stop on a tour that would take in 33 more U.S. cities in the next nine weeks...