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When Lenard Clark's father enrolled his son in a martial-arts class, he wanted his 13-year-old boy to know that "the world isn't always kind" and to "be prepared for the bully that may be coming, because kids can be monsters." But Clark had no way of anticipating that when the world turned ugly for his son on the evening of March 21, there would be three bullies, not one. Nor did he know that they would be so monstrous: slamming Lenard's head against a wall, beating him into a coma and leaving him lying...
...accusations by the NAACP that it has unfairly targeted black soldiers in the rape allegations. Said Army spokesman John Yaquiant: "All we want is the truth. It does us no good to have allegations that will not hol d up." He added that at least four soldiers face court-martial and dozens have been suspended for rape allegations...
...suppress the protests, the Nationalist Government leader, Chiang Kai-shek, imposed martial law on the island and sent troops from mainland China. As the troops moved from north to south on the island, they killed roughly 20,000 people indiscriminately...
...just finished reading Mark Thompson's report on the crash of the F-15 in Germany and the U.S. Air Force's decision to court-martial Technical Sergeants Thomas Mueller and William Campbell, both mechanics, for the death of pilot Major Donald Lowry Jr. [NATION, Dec. 2]. It is truly incredible that the Air Force pursued these two men, when in essence it was the Air Force itself that took no steps to fix the flight-control rods so they could not be misconnected and to warn mechanics of the problem. This was a double tragedy; the suicide of Mueller...
Lawyers for the 52nd pressed a different story, making sure above all that the jury did not hear about the 1986 and 1991 rod-crossing incidents, or the steps taken after Lowry's death to fix the problem. But a February legal review, required before any court-martial, strongly criticized that approach: the jury, an Air Force lawyer outside the 52nd cautioned, might see Mueller as "a victim of poor policy" and a "mere scapegoat...