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...When they found him at work, the APs handcuffed him, took him to the Greater Pittsburgh Airport, where he was ordered aboard a military plane. Five days later, Toth, who had gotten his honorable discharge five months earlier, was in a guardhouse in Taegu, Korea, awaiting trial by court-martial on a charge of murder...
Last week an Air Force court-martial in Korea sentenced the officer of the guard, Lieut. George Schreiber, 25, to life imprisonment. At the same time, the life sentence of Airman Thomas L. Kinder, 21, the guard who fired the fatal shot, was reduced to two years. No one questioned the sentences, or the military's right to try Kinder and Schreiber. who are still in the Air Force. But the case of Bob Toth, a civilian, is a different matter...
...country with no hearing before a competent civilian authority. The Air Force claimed the authority of Article 3a of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which states that former servicemen who committed major crimes while in military service "shall not be relieved from amenability to trial by courts-martial by reason of the termination of said status." Lawyer McGrath (who died later of a heart attack) questioned the constitutionality of Article...
...with a cool simplicity that seems astonished by nothing but shows compassion for everything. Honolulu's Schofield Barracks (where much of the picture was actually filmed) becomes a large, stark frame for some memorable scenes, such as the rite of taps for Private Maggio, with the notes of martial mourning groping their way from stone to stone and from face to shadowy face...
...martial law has not been lifted, as the editors of Gómez' El Siglo found out last week. Angered by a tactless editorial which seemed to take Peru's side in the Haya controversy, Rojas Pinilla closed El Siglo for a day. Censorship was also strict, though seemingly impartial, at other papers. Rojas has promised to return a measure of press freedom, after working out a set of "newspapermen's commandments." This may be less onerous than Gómez' capricious prior censorship, because it will put the rules down in black & white...