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...women between the ages of 18 and 25, slapped a dusk-to-dawn curfew on all Europeans in the Congo, and appealed to the U.N. Security Council for protection against an "international Mafia" that he said aimed at his overthrow. At week's end, between bursts of martial music, the Kinshasa radio claimed that forces loyal to Mobutu had recaptured Kisangani and Bukuva. Europeans fleeing from Bukuva into neighboring Rwanda told of looting and grisly retaliations against the remaining whites by Mobutu's troops. A planeload of bruised and battered mercenaries landed in Rhodesia...
...Wilkerson. While on patrol, he disappeared into the bushes with a suspected V.C. prisoner. Two shots were heard; Wilkerson returned alone. Hours later, another Marine patrol came across the body of the prisoner, his hands still tied behind his back. Within two months, Wilkerson was before a general court-martial, charged with murder. He admitted the shooting, but claimed he had been ordered to do it. Testified Wilker son: "The lieutenant said: 'Pull out of the column and kill him.' " One other member of the patrol backed his version, but the rest maintained that they had heard...
...made up of three civilians. They are also provided with free military defense counsel. Generally young, the attorneys "really get in there and chew," says Marine Lieut. Colonel Bill Wander, who has just returned from 13 months as the law officer* at every Marine or Navy general court-martial in Viet Nam. "They fight tooth and nail and don't give an inch. They come from all the best law schools...
...members of the court-martial have usually seen combat themselves, rarely sympathize with a man who uses his weapon too readily. Nor do they often heed pleas-like Wilkerson's-that "I was just following orders." The Uniform Code of Military Justice, mindful of the Nürnberg trials, clearly states that a subordinate is not justified in following an order if it "is such that a man of ordinary sense and understanding would know it to be illegal." Moreover, every U.S. serviceman arriving in Viet Nam is given a printed card entitled "The Enemy in Your Hands...
...think. The government banned both the badges and the bibles, and a crowd of Chinese students in Rangoon retaliated by taking their teachers as hostages and beating up newsmen. The Burmese struck back by sacking Chinese-owned shops. Burma's military ruler, General Ne Win, declared martial law in Rangoon, and his men fired into mobs which had made three assaults on the Chinese embassy. In turn, Peking denounced the riots as inspired by a "militarist fascist rule" and sent Chinese by the thousands to demonstrate and smash windows at the Burmese embassy in China...