Word: martials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Kassem announced that a court would try the "anarchists" responsible for the Kirkuk "massacre" of at least 120 persons. Sixty members of the Communist-infiltrated Popular Resistance Force were haled before a court-martial on charges of murdering three Baghdad notables-the first proCommunists to stand trial in Iraq since the revolution of July...
...must take one step backward in order to take 100 steps forward," declared tough, chunky Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat, 51, and with that convenient philosophy in mind last October, he took over Thailand's government, abrogated the constitution, dissolved the Parliament, abolished political parties, and set up martial law. Since most of the democratic trappings of the country were more apparent than real, Thailand did not seem to mind such highhandedness at all. Weeks ago, as the Buddhist Lenten season of Purima Pansa began. Thai temples gleamed with new coats of gold in keeping with the old adage. "When...
...bargains and get the outsiders' first big toehold in real estate. But most affected by the shock were the thousands of Japanese-Americans whose ancestry made them suroect, especially to faraway Washington and the apprehensive military. Intensely loyal to the U.S., crushed by the restrictions of martial law and threatened internment, the Nisei wallowed in confusion until their island friends came to their rescue, set up coordinating committees that satisfied the suspicious, promoted Nisei war-bond purchases and blood donations, talked encouragingly to 10,-ooo individual Japanese.-Notable among the helpful, friendly Caucasians: Jack Burns, the Montana-born Honolulu...
...general court-martial, Huller pleaded guilty of graft, had his three-year hard-labor sentence reduced to a year and a half and a bad-conduct discharge. But Coogan, ever the operator even in the stockade awaiting trial, was caught trying to tamper with one of the witnesses, slapped with 15 years' hard labor and a dishonorable discharge. The system out of which the sergeant and the specialist made a flourishing business, said the Army hopefully, had been forever thwarted by a new assignment system, controlled directly from Washington...
...Hamid, Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation, who had been chosen by Shennan and Moheiddin to head the new Supreme Council, was placed under house arrest. Testimony showed that among those slated for the revamped council (although neither knew of the plan) were one of the members of the court-martial itself and the army's chief investigator, who had prepared the case against Shennan and Moheiddin. Shennan haughtily denied that he would have confided in a 26-year-old captain ("He was not of my age, my rank, my standing"), and accused former top officials of "trying to sell...