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Born. To Herman Wouk, 38, bestselling novelist (The Caine Mutiny) and playwright (The Caine Mutiny Court Martial), and Betty Sarah Brown Wouk, 33: their third child, third son; in Manhattan. Name: Joseph. Weight...
...Before God . . ." There was no evidence. The case made little progress. Fifteen of the accused were released on parole. Madrid tried to get the army to court-martial the men, but the military shied away. "Basque separatism," said one officer, "is not a tangible, clandestine organization. It is a state of mind. You cannot court-martial a state of mind...
...governor's chair, wearing a crumpled white linen suit and the blue-and-scarlet tie of the Grenadier Guards, British Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton listened patiently to the representatives of 6,000,000 Africans, 100,000 Indians, 40,000 whites and 25,000 Arabs The whites wanted martial law and an all-out offensive against the Mau Mau. The others wanted a share in the colony's all-white government. For nine days Lyttelton was silent; on the tenth day he spoke. He proposed a drastic constitutional revision whose main features were 1) a four-man war council...
...court-martial came to order in a British army hut outside Nairobi. The defendant: Captain Gerald Griffiths, 43, a British officer of the Durham Light Infantry charged with "disgraceful conduct" and "cruelty" towards prisoners suspected of being Mau Mau terrorists...
Joining together in uneasy collaboration, the groups which overturned the Shishekly regime 1) abrogated Shishekly's martial law decree; 2) closed up the offices of his personal political party (the Arab Liberation Movement); 3) abolished the 1953 "Shishekly" constitution, which concentrated all power in the hands of the executive; and 4) announced that there would be general elections soon-perhaps in three months...