Word: martialled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...medical student. The riots soon spread to half a dozen other cities. Last week, demonstrators protesting two more student deaths took over a 50-block area in Rosario, Argentina's second largest city, and held it for several hours, until they were routed by troops acting under martial...
...refusing to authorize a court-martial or official letters of admonition for the principal officers of U.S.S. Pueblo, Navy Secretary John Chafee indicated that they could live happily ever after in the service. But Lieutenant Edward R. Murphy Jr., the spy ship's executive officer, figured that his future had fizzled when the Navy refused his request to be assigned to the service's postgraduate school in Monterey, Calif. Last week he resigned his commission...
Chafee rejected recommendations by the naval court of inquiry that Bucher and Lieut. Stephen R. Harris, the officer in charge of Pueblo's supersecret "research" spaces, be tried by court-martial. Secretary Chafee also refused to authorize the issuance of letters of admonition and reprimand for other officers. "They have suffered enough and further punishment would not be justified," he said...
...they are dangerous. I truly believe that the military is growing too strong politically, economically and socially. It is exceeding all the bounds for which it was created. What can be done? Here, I'm at a loss. Perhaps I'm dreaming, but for the future I see martial law on campuses, in cities, and even military control of the government. We are walking a slim picket fence. Think about it for a while. I would appreciate comments. Ray Brassard 11631372 3628 Student Square Lackland Air Force Base, Texas
...much as any one man, Bhashani inspired the riots that last month forced President Ayub Khan to step down from the presidency. Now Bhashani is the most severe single threat to a fragile peace brought to the troubled and geographically divided land by the imposition of martial law. Under fear of harsh penalties, Pakistan's other politicians, including Bhashani's chief Bengali rival, moderate Sheik Mujibur Rahman, have kept silent. Not Bhashani, who continues to receive newsmen and followers at his bamboo-walled hut. "What have I to fear?" he asked TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin, as he adjusted...