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...absolve officers in the operational chain of command who had been criticized for failing to take adequate precautions before a truck bomb killed 241 U.S. servicemen last Oct. 23. The President also used his constitutional power as Commander in Chief of the armed forces to head off courts-martial for the officers. Said...
...more prevalent view. "The entire military is built on the basis of evaluation of performance," he said. "A lot of people will come to believe that if you get into trouble, there will always be some political escape mechanism." While the officers criticized will not face a court-martial, they have probably lost hope of important assignments or attaining significant promotions. Any officer who feels that the commission criticized him unfairly has the right to ask for a hearing to clear his record...
...Alfonsín's first acts after his Dec. 10 inauguration was to decree that nine military junta members, including former Presidents Jorge Rafael Videla, Roberto Viola and Leopoldo Galtieri, be brought before the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Argentina's highest military court. In court-martial proceedings that began last week, they were accused of mass murder and torture of civilians. Alfonsin also signed a bill repealing an amnesty law proclaimed by the outgoing military government that would have absolved the armed forces of responsibility for the atrocities of the "dirty...
...Senate Chamber of the Annapolis State House last Friday, General George Washington, after nearly nine years as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, resigned his military commission before Congress. It was an emotional moment. By voluntarily yielding martial authority, Washington authenticated the American experiment in democracy and citizen government...
...special relationship between the people of the U.S. and the British Empire. "The fortunes of the new nation may have turned more on what they accomplished at the negotiating table than on all their other attainments," says Challinor. "We should put negotiators on an equal footing with our martial heroes, and diplomats should take their place beside generals and admirals in our pantheon. We should let the world know that we are about the work of peace as we were once about the work...