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...bargains and get the outsiders' first big toehold in real estate. But most affected by the shock were the thousands of Japanese-Americans whose ancestry made them suroect, especially to faraway Washington and the apprehensive military. Intensely loyal to the U.S., crushed by the restrictions of martial law and threatened internment, the Nisei wallowed in confusion until their island friends came to their rescue, set up coordinating committees that satisfied the suspicious, promoted Nisei war-bond purchases and blood donations, talked encouragingly to 10,-ooo individual Japanese.-Notable among the helpful, friendly Caucasians: Jack Burns, the Montana-born Honolulu...
...general court-martial, Huller pleaded guilty of graft, had his three-year hard-labor sentence reduced to a year and a half and a bad-conduct discharge. But Coogan, ever the operator even in the stockade awaiting trial, was caught trying to tamper with one of the witnesses, slapped with 15 years' hard labor and a dishonorable discharge. The system out of which the sergeant and the specialist made a flourishing business, said the Army hopefully, had been forever thwarted by a new assignment system, controlled directly from Washington...
...political enemies went to jail, and two former Prime Ministers were actually pensioned off at a liberal ?100 a month. But leniency has its limits, and last week, in the air-conditioned, blue-carpeted Sudanese Parliament chamber at Khartoum, two rebellious brigadiers faced a full-dress court-martial. The charge: mutiny...
...their court-martial last week, Shennan and Moheiddin were represented by five attorneys, including the president of the Sudan Bar Association. The prosecutor, acknowledging the deep Sudanese desire for reforms, said that "the Sudanese nation is still at the rear of the caravan" of progress. But there wars pointed evidence that the two had plotted against the Abboud regime. Witnesses testified that Shennan told an army captain in, of all unlikely places, the public reading room of Khartoum's Sudanese Cultural Center that "nobody believes there has been a revolution in this country, not even we, the members...
...Hamid, Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation, who had been chosen by Shennan and Moheiddin to head the new Supreme Council, was placed under house arrest. Testimony showed that among those slated for the revamped council (although neither knew of the plan) were one of the members of the court-martial itself and the army's chief investigator, who had prepared the case against Shennan and Moheiddin. Shennan haughtily denied that he would have confided in a 26-year-old captain ("He was not of my age, my rank, my standing"), and accused former top officials of "trying to sell...