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...occasion for the reunion was a general court-martial, and the accused was the lad with the golden hair. Sergeant James C. Gallagher of Brooklyn was charged in ten specifications with consorting with the Chinese Communists and murdering three of his fellow American prisoners of war in Korea. The witnesses were sharp-tongued and bitter; one testified that he had buried one of the three dead G.I.s beside the Yalu River, and he swore: "I made a promise to that kid . . . that if God permitted me to get back home alive . . . the man who murdered him would be brought...
...command of the commanding general, Sixth Army, each of you is hereby taken into custody," barked Captain Walter R. Leahy. "You are further advised that court-martial charges have been preferred against you ..." When the captain finished reading the charges, three husky MPs stepped up to the young men and marched them off to a weapons carrier. Minutes later, the forbidding gates of the prison compound at Fort Baker clanked shut behind them...
...them. Technically, Bell, Cowart and Griggs are civilians-dishonorably discharged from the Army at the time they, and 18 other American turncoats, turned their backs on their homeland and families and disappeared into Red China. But since 1950, the armed forces have claimed the right to seize and court-martial civilians for major crimes committed while in military service. The legality of that claim, as set forth in the 1950 Uniform Code of Military Justice, will soon be tested in court.* But if the Army should lose jurisdiction over the three, the Justice Department is prepared to step...
...Veteran Robert Toth was arrested by air police in Pittsburgh in 1953 and flown to Korea to stand trial on a charge of murder committed while he was in the Air Force (TIME, Aug. 31, 1953). Before the court-martial could be called, however, the Air Force was forced to return him to the U.S., and Toth was released under a writ of habeas corpus. His case, a test of the military's authority over some 21 million living veterans, is pending before the Supreme Court...
After three days of the bloodiest rioting Casablanca had seen since 1952, ten Europeans and at least 20 Moroccans were dead, more than 100 wounded. Casablanca was under martial law; tanks and armored cars patrolled the streets and surrounded the native quarters. Grandval announced grimly that he would continue the policy of moderation he had begun. Unhappily, for a man with no time to lose, too much time had already been lost...