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...springtime Wednesday afternoons at Annapolis, the U.S. Naval Academy's 4,300 midshipmen, starched and polished, march smartly to the drum and bugle of dress parade. It is a traditional display of martial crispness for academy brass and visiting VIPs. But these Wednesdays, after the last salute is snapped, many a middie returns to the not-so-traditional company of Machiavelli, Malthus or Montesquieu-required reading in such brand-new majors as literature, economics and political science. The marriage of military discipline and academic freedom is uneasy at best, but Rear Admiral James F. Calvert, now in his second...
...taunting note to L. Mendel Rivers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Rivers boiled off a note of his own to the Pentagon asking whether Priest had committed a "gross abuse of the constitutional right of free speech." Soon the seaman was ordered before a general court-martial...
...Robert Sherill, would depend on a lot of things. It would depend first, on how angry his superiors were: second, on whether the soldier had ever been connected with any left-of-center political groups; third, on how dramatically the press played the incident and the inevitable court-martial; and fourth, on whether any influential civilian figure decided the trial was producing too much heat to permit the military to have...
...nothing else. Sherill's study is valuable for its fascinating reconstruction of two of the most notorious recent court-martials: the trial of the "Presidio 27." who staged a peaceful protest in a west coast military stockade to protest inhumane prison conditions: and the court-martial of Captain Howard Levy, the Army doctor who was sent to prison for refusing to train Green Beret medical corpsmen...
...that Levy's commander ordered him to train Green Beret aidmen only after he learned Levy had said he would refuse to work with them, and before Levy's base had any formal program for training Berets. A formal program was hastily concocted in the middle of the court-martial, the day before one of Levy's fellow physicians was scheduled to testify...