Word: martially
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...Nasserites that his government would work for eventual "federal union" with Egypt, made businessmen happy by blasting Marxism, and tried to appeal to left-wing intellectuals by advocating non-Marxist socialism. His goal, said Bazzaz, was to create a flourishing Iraq where there would be no need of "courts-martial, coups d'état and tanks in the streets...
...months of fighting in the remote Andean highlands of central Peru, the Communist bands that President Fernando Belaunde Terry once dismissed as a "mere fiction" still operate. They are now a recognized fact of life. The constitutional guarantees suspended two months ago, putting the country under a form of martial law, are still suspended. Last week the Peruvian Congress went a step farther by authorizing military courts to impose the death penalty on captured guerrillas, and voted $7,400,000 to step up an already major operation against what the lawmakers called "imperialistic Communist aggression...
...SPECIAL COURTS-MARTIAL nearly always deal with enlisted men, have a president (senior officer present), a trial counsel (prosecutor) and defense counsel. Neither counsel need be a lawyer, but if the former is, the latter must be. Maximum penalties upon conviction: six months' confinement at hard labor and a bad-conduct discharge, which is theoretically less serious than a dishonorable discharge...
...GENERAL COURTS-MARTIAL have jurisdiction over any person subject to the code, try all serious offenses ranging from murder to desertion. The court has at least five members, plus three lawyers trained as members of the particular service's Judge Advocate General's Corps. They are: the trial counsel, defense counsel and "law officer" (judge), who rules on all questions of law, but does not participate in the final secret vote for guilt or innocence. A general court can impose any statutory sentence, including dishonorable discharge, life imprisonment and death (by unanimous vote...
Foxhole Privacy. Grim as it all sounds, every court-martial sentence is automatically reviewed and often lightened in the process. The local commander may cut any sentence (though he may never increase it), after which his actions are reviewed by a Judge Advocate General's Corps lawyer from the accused's branch of the service. For all major sentences, the next step after the commander is a three-lawyer "JAG" board of review in the Pentagon...