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...Party big shots heard a radio news flash and, just in time, skedaddled. Parliamentary immunity spared the party's five Senators and 15 Deputies. But at El Siglo, the Communist newspaper in Santiago, even the linotypers were arrested. At Lota, 300 miners' leaders were held for court-martial. When Communist unions pulled reprisal strikes in the great nitrate fields and copper mines, the Army grabbed another...
...will states that the study may include either peaceful or martial aspects of the naval history and points in particular to how the maritime area has "affected and may affect the security and progress of the U.S.A...
After three weeks the court-martial had found Chief Hirshberg not guilty of informing against the three prisoners who planned to escape, not guilty of hitting four of his accusers, but guilty of beating two of them. Last week, it gave him just about the stiffest sentence it could: ten months in the Navy's Retraining Command (correction school) at Norfolk, Va., to be followed by dishonorable discharge...
...weeks ago, a Navy general court-martial at Brooklyn's Naval Shipyard began the trial of stocky Chief Signalman Harold E. Hirshberg, 29, a regular Navy man and a section leader in several Japanese prison camps after his capture at Corregidor. Chief Hirshberg was charged with hitting six men in his charge, and of informing against three who planned to escape. One of the three had been tortured to death by the Japanese...
...Solution. Peron, who has no intention of falling anywhere, might plump for a tried-&-true Argentine solution: declaration of a state of siege or nationwide martial law. That way he could silence the opposition, give the Army, which has not fought a war in 75 years, a sense of directing public affairs...