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...daylights out of the spuds, so his mess sergeant reported him for goofing off. Sent up before Captain Thomas Woods, his commanding officer, for disciplinary action, Pfc. God refused a company-punishment sentence of two hours of hard labor every day for 14 days, demanded a summary court-martial, as was his right-even in such absurd cases as this-under the new (1951) Uniform Code of Military Justice...
Last week word drifted out from Fort Myer about Andrew God's court-martial. The trial had all the trimmings of the customary military tribunal, even a heavily worded bill of specifications: Pfc. Andrew God, 25, "having knowledge of a lawful order ... to peel and eye potatoes as directed, an order which it was his duty to obey, did . . . fail to obey the same. [He] did, without proper authority, willfully suffer potatoes, of some value, military property of the U.S., to be destroyed by improper peeling...
...gaffe heard round the world. Editorialists were reminded of Pearl Harbor, exploded in wrathful indignation. The press and the politicos cried for courts-martial of the brass responsible for the parts goof. President Eisenhower demanded an immediate report...
...hatred of a young army recruit for his martinet captain in the dusty Pacific town garrison of Portoviejo caused the rioting that put Ecuador under martial law and killed at least 37 people...
Unleashed, the chain reaction of violence had one more stage to go. Next day. Guayaquil's slum dwellers, bitter over their poverty amidst Ecuador's growing prosperity (TIME. Feb. 23). came out looting, burning, battling soldiers for another night before martial law and exhaustion put an end to the outbreak that resentful Draftee García unwittingly touched...