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...Marine Corps, Minichiello, now 21, set a still unbroken record for long-distance skyjacking in October 1969, when he forced the crew of a TWA jet to fly 6,900 miles from California to Rome. At the time, Minichiello was AWOL and fleeing from a court-martial; he had broken into a PX because, he said, the Corps had cheated him out of $200 in pay, and he wanted to square accounts...
...next spring, for if the court does not respond to his appeal within six months, he will have to be released on "provisional liberty" until the court gets around to replying. Future skyjackers could hardly be discouraged by the leniency shown Minichiello. Had Minichiello faced the Marine court-martial for his original offense and been convicted, his maximum jail sentence would have been six months, with a bad-conduct discharge from the Corps...
Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau imposed martial law on Canada last Oct. 16, following the kidnappings of Laporte and British Trade Commissioner James R. Cross by two separate cells of the FLQ. The law declared illegal membership in the secessionist group or support for its activities or goals...
...veteran trial lawyer from Louisiana. Brown brought out several discrepancies between Sledge's courtroom statements and his earlier testimony before Army investigators. Brown read from one transcript quoting Sledge as saying, "I believe it was Sergeant Mitchell firing into the ditch." Now, the defense "attorney told the court-martial, Sledge was saying that he was "positive" it was Mitchell firing. Brown cited an interview with an Army Criminal Investigation Division agent in which Sledge said that Calley had fired two M-16 magazines into the ditch but that he "did not remember about Sergeant Mitchell...
...Action Politique (FRAP), which endorses the FLQ's political and economic goals. That party ran candidates for 31 of the 52 seats on the Montreal city council last Sunday, and most of the candidates were given a decent chance of winning their contests. But after the declaration of martial law, two of the candidates were arrested and the party itself was repeatedly assailed...