Word: martials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fighter and visionary who led the rebellion. And Castro was in no mood for mercy. "They are criminals," he said. "Everybody knows that. We give them a fair trial. Mothers come in and say, 'This man killed my son.' " To demonstrate, Castro offered to stage the courts-martial in Havana's Central Park-an unlikely spot for cool justice but perfect for a modern-day Madame Defarge...
When a West Point court-martial decided that Plebe Edgar Allan Poe was not officer material, it rendered a sound judgment. It was not only that the overage (22) cadet had been a U.S. army private, that he drank, ran up heavy debts and asserted (falsely) that Benedict Arnold was his grandfather. Poe was a poet and a born soldier of misfortune -ill-armed against the world. Life was a bad dream to him; he is remembered today not for his success in coming to terms with it but for the fantasies and fictions that celebrated his defeat...
Last week the Army proudly announced one extra dividend of such upgrading: effective March 2, it will close down its disciplinary barracks for military prisoners at New Cumberland, Pa. After that, owing to a sharp decline in courts-martial (to a monthly rate of 18.2 per 100,000 soldiers from 54.1 in 1956), only two prisons (Fort Leavenworth, Kans. and Lompoc, Calif.) will operate, where two years ago five were needed...
HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 5--Provisional President Manuel Urrutia arrived in Havana late today, raising the prospect that martial law in Havana province and a prospective curfew for the capital would be lifted quickly...
...proclamation of martial law was made by Maj. Camilo Cienfuegos, Castro's military chief for Havana province. He said it would remain in force until Urrutia was installed in the presidential palace...