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ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Maryland: Ignoring the prosecution's request to give Army Staff Sergeant Delmar Simpson life behind bars, a court-martial jury sentenced the former drill sergeant to 25 years in prison. Jurors also ordered that Simpson be dishonorably discharged and reduced to the rank of private E-1. The prosecution made an impassioned plea for jurors to deliver the maximum penalty of life in prison, arguing that it would "send a message" to other military personnel. Incredibly, Simpson's defense attorney, Frank Spinner, countered that Simpson's exposure had taught him a lesson and that the jury should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Simpson gets 25 Years | 5/6/1997 | See Source »

...called off because the guerrillas and hostages were shifting positions inside the building and intelligence could not pinpoint them. He then chose a date in early March, which was put on hold after Cerpa either heard the noise of the tunnel construction--the army tried to mask it with martial music on blaring loudspeakers--or was tipped off about the digging. Cerpa halted talks with the government's mediators and moved the hostages upstairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW THEY DID IT | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...Before Yes, Madam," she says, "I didn't know any form of martial arts. But because I'd been dancing since I was four, I was active and limber. I also had a quick mind to pick up steps and stunts. I'd look and I'd copy." Putting her dance techniques in the service of movie surrealism, she executed entrechats so they'd puncture a bad guy's windpipe; in her plies, the knee went thwok! in a man's most vulnerable spot. "My stunt coordinators constantly tell me not to kick so high," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: EVERYBODY SAY YEOH! | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...first full-fledged Army court-martial stemming from the sex scandal at Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground begins this week, but three U.S. military personnel accused of sexual wrongdoing have already exacted the ultimate in self-inflicted punishment: suicide. Private Alan May, 22, hanged himself in his Aberdeen barracks on Jan. 4, three days before he was to face a rape charge. Staff Sergeant Michael Thompson, 31, of Fort Detrick, Maryland, took his life on Feb. 24, three days after being questioned by Army investigators about a female soldier's complaint that he had indecently assaulted her. The case involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR? | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...Base in Illinois, charged with two counts of adultery and one count each of sodomy and fraternization. As a result of a pretrial agreement, the 19-year veteran, who was separated from her husband and two daughters, pleaded guilty to one count of fraternization at her March 11 court-martial. The Air Force booted her out of the service one year before she would have been eligible for a pension. After her lawyer expressed concern that she might be suicidal, the Air Force provided her with a mental-health worker. But on March 16, while her parents were at church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR? | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

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