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Freund said, however, that the state governments do have the power to declare martial law "if there is some serious threat to the existence of the state government" or if there is a likelihood of criminal activity in the wake of a catastrophe...
...course we had martial law in Hawaii in World War II when it was thought that the inhabitants of Japanese ancestry might be a danger there," Freund said. "But that was declared unconstitutional after the imminent danger of invasion of Hawaii had ended...
...South Vietnamese villagers at My Lai in March of 1968 is still mired in pretrial maneuvering. Charges against eight of 15 officers accused of covering up the massacre have been dropped. The Army is, however, expected to set a date soon for the most sensational of the courts-martial, that of Lieut. William Calley Jr., who is accused of murdering 102 civilians. Beginning in its November issue, Esquire magazine is giving Calley a chance to reflect on his Army experiences with the aid of a professional writer, John Sack. Self-serving though it is, the first-person account...
...battle developed. Hussein appeared to be faring well without help from the outside?though a helicopter stood by at Al-Hummar Palace just in case, ready to lift him to exile (probably in Iran). At 4:05 on a quiet morning in Amman, barely 24 hours after martial law was imposed, an artillery round shattered the predawn quiet. It was the tocsin for a barrage of fire from both sides, mostly in the dark at shapeless targets...
...walkout is one more sign that union members everywhere are marching to a martial drum. This year the pace of American life has been snarled by an unusual number of strikes, and the appetites of union members have been whetted by some outrageously high settlements. Construction workers in this year's first quarter squeezed out wage increases averaging 18%. Last June, the Teamsters won hourly raises of $1.85 over 39 months...