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...Owen that he was talking his way into trouble. But Owen kept right on talking. General West's order, he said, was "a hilarious climax to a chain of injustices." Concluded he: "The rights of individuals have been suppressed." For such talk, Owen was brought before a court martial board on charges of violating Article 89 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice-disrespect toward superior officers. It took the board only 27 minutes to order him put away until late September-just about the time his division has been scheduled for release...
...clumsy, and the camera work grossly faked. Though the lovers wander all over Paris, the Cathedral of Notre Dame turns up in the background practically everywhere they go, almost as if it were following them around like a little dog. To conceal such defects, Director Minnelli pours on the martial music and the Metrocolor. When war is declared, the screen turns such a bright blood red that for about half an hour afterward everything looks green. And the Four Horsemen-the Biblical war, pestilence, death and conquest-gallop across the sky at intervals like a belly-clenching commercial for stomach...
...Sandhurst graduate, General Ayub overthrew a discredited parliamentary government in a bloodless coup in October 1958, has since used martial law to rescue the overwhelmingly illiterate (88%) country from political and financial chaos and corruption. Three years ago, he retired to his teak-paneled study in Karachi, gave himself a cram course in Thomas Jefferson, and emerged with a plan for basic democracies: 80,000 village elders elected to panchayats (councils) that were to levy local taxes, maintain roads, run police forces. While the panchayats nurtured democracy at the grass roots, Ayub Khan continued to practice autocracy...
Informal Charges. With a settlement near, the S.A.O. faces a set of difficult alternatives. An immediate mass uprising might actually work to De Gaulle's advantage by giving him the chance to invoke martial law in Algeria?which he has so far hesitated to do?and thus choke off the rebellion by drafting men into the army, requisitioning property, arresting and interning suspects without formal charges. On the other hand, the uprising could also come too late; Salan cannot possibly hope to prevail against the F.L.N. without at least partial army support, and there are signs that the longer...
THRONE OF BLOOD. The most impressive living master of cinema, Japan's Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon), has transformed Shakespeare's Macbeth into a noh play loud with the wrangle of martial metal, soft with the rustle of imminent demonic populations...