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During his drawn-out court-martial on charges of military misconduct, Captain Howard Brett Levy and his attorney have spiced the otherwise routine trial with dark hints that U.S. Special Forces in Viet Nam were guilty of war crimes as heinous as any condemned at Nurnberg two decades ago (TIME, May 26). Last week, in an unexpectedly bold move, the Army court allowed Levy's attorney to wage the first "Nurnberg defense" in a U.S. court-martial. To the surprise of almost no one, it failed dismally...
...Cairo, Nasser's own two sons volunteered for military service, inspired not only by their father's swollen rhetoric but by the martial music that suddenly took the place of whiny Arab folk songs on Radio Cairo. The absentee-prone Lebanese parliament, perhaps the world's most unmartial body, became so incensed that it took the warlike step of ending its emergency session with a wildly off-key singing of the national anthem. National Guardsmen in Da mascus had a fine time stopping all traffic on the city's wide boulevards and ordering everyone to take...
...seemed at first a pedestrian case ambling toward a predictable conclusion. An obscure physician from Brooklyn, drafted into the Army and clearly a military misfit, was haled before a general court-martial, charged with preaching antiwar dogma to enlisted men and refusing to teach them dermatology as he had been ordered. But last week the case of Captain Howard Levy took on unexpected significance both as a precedent in military law and as a chapter in the worldwide debate over the Vietnamese war. For the first time in a U.S. military court, the war-crimes doctrine of Nürnberg...
...this the defense offered no factual opposition. Morgan argued that the case should be thrown out on a variety of grounds, ranging from constitutional guarantees of free speech to the fact that WACs are excluded from court-martial panels. "It is the right, indeed the duty," said Morgan, "of all Americans to think, to dream and to talk." However, the most serious charge against Levy is that he refused to carry out a direct order given in writing...
Kettledrums sounded, trumpets blared, and an Irish Guards band played martial airs in the streets as 2,000 invited dignitaries and 500,000 Roman Catholics celebrated the consecration of Liverpool's new Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King on Whitsunday. Constructed over the past 41 years at a cost of $11,200,000, the cone-shaped cathedral in concrete rises to a stately stained-glass lantern tower capped with a crown of finials, which lights up at night atop one of Liverpool's two hills. The other hill, half a mile away, is already topped by the Gothic...