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Under a previous agreement with the U.S. applying to crimes by civilians with the U.S. Armed Forces, Britain had waived its right to try Clarice Covert in its civil courts. She was sentenced to life imprisonment by a U.S. Air Force court-martial which acted under a section in the 1950 Uniform Code of Military Justice giving jurisdiction to military tribunals over "all persons serving with, employed by or accompanying" the U.S. Armed Forces overseas. Last week in Washington, Federal District Judge Edward A. Tamm declared that section of the Uniform Code to be unconstitutional and ordered Mrs. Covert...
Legal Sanctuary? Judge Tamm made his ruling on the basis of the recent decision in the case of Robert Toth (TIME, Nov. 21), in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that ex-servicemen cannot be tried by court-martial for crimes committed while in the armed forces. If the military thus has no jurisdiction over civilians who were at one time in the service, said Judge Tamm, then the military obviously has no jurisdiction over "persons who were civilians all the time...
...Hoffmann had some serviceable singing by the large cast, with Tenor Richard Tucker in particularly mellow voice and French Baritone Martial Singher singing with enormous power and control. Roberta Peters was the pert doll. The standout was Soprano Lucine Amara. who brought to the stage the kind of dazzling vocal splendor that made the Met famous. The sound of her voice was eggshell-fragile, sunset-colored, and so surprisingly powerful that the audience burst into cheers at the end of her big aria...
...individuals in low-paid positions, for they must, without income, pay the costs of defending themselves. To alleviate this inequity the Commission should recommend that employees accused of disloyalty be suspended with pay or that the Government itself undertake their defense as it does now in cases of courts martial...
...clings to his suitcase full of Tokay until a shell mixes his blood with the wine. A captain with a hopelessly shattered skull keeps repeating a meaningless word, "Bjeljogorsche, Bjeljogorsche." A doctor says, as if he himself were making better sense: "He's up for a court-martial. He crashed on his motorbike, and he wasn't wearing his steel helmet." One man clucks over his buddy's baby picture as they drive a lorry-load of Jews to a crematorium. Irony is a blunt instrument in Author