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...Quonset-hut courtroom in Seoul last week, an eight-man court-martial meted out punishment: two years in prison and dismissal from the service for 2nd Lieut. James D. Goff. Goff smiled in relief: he had had good reason to expect a much heavier sentence. Last December, with three Negro enlisted men, he had entered a Korean's house, presumably looking for stolen property, and had pistol-whipped to death an innocent Korean Presbyterian minister who protested...
...your Jan. 19 issue, you state that the court-martial which tried Dorothy Krueger Smith for the murder of her husband found her guilty of first-degree murder by six votes to three and sentenced her to life imprisonment; that "a unanimous verdict of guilty would have made the death sentence mandatory." This is not correct. The only offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice that requires a mandatory death sentence is spying in time of war . . . and the only offense requiring a unanimous finding of guilty is that for which the death penalty is mandatory, namely, spying...
...TIME] could know that the actual vote was six to three ... is a mystery . . since the Manual for Courts Martial . , . states: "Only the required percentage of members who concurred in findings of guilty shall be announced...
...weeks nothing happened. The soldiers involved were Army engineers, attached to the Air Force, building a Marine base, and Pang had died on a Navy ship. "Nobody," explained an Army officer, "can decide who should hold the court-martial." The case might have outlasted the war had not the correspondent of a small Chicago monthly, Christian Life, mailed the story. The influential Christian Century picked it up, demanded that the Army "make sure this case is not whitewashed ... and that Washington fully recognizes the seriousness of this shocking affair...
Sadek was ordered to appear before Naguib's No. 2 man, Lieut. Colonel Abdel Nasser; he was asked whether he had made the remarks. Hotheadedly, Sadek answered yes, and what's more, he wanted five anti-Communists ousted from The Fourteen; he also demanded that martial law be lifted and imprisoned Reds be released...