Word: nato
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Whenever a member of a force . . . is prosecuted under the jurisdiction of a receiving State he shall be entitled to a prompt and speedy trial [and ] to be confronted with the witnesses against him. -NATO Status of Forces Agreement
Last week, nearly two months after their arrest on charges of currency black-marketing (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.), four U.S. sergeants stationed at NATO's southeastern headquarters in Turkey had their fourth brief hearing in an Izmir court. For the third straight session the prosecution failed to produce its chief witnesses against them. With a show of bland indifference, the presiding judge adjourned the trial for another nine days...
This was not the opinion of Sergeant Proietti. Wrote he: "Did you know that since our apprehension until now, the Turkish police broke the [NATO Status of Forces Agreement] on 7 different occasions, excluding the beatings. What makes me sick is that our government is accepting it without an argument...
...When De Gaulle had finished, France was swept by a vast wave of relief that finally someone had pointed the way to an end of the bloody rebellion that has cost France $5 billion, kept 500,000 young Frenchmen under arms in Algeria and badly strained the fabric of NATO. The Communist and fascist fringes hurled insults at the President, but the great French middle, both liberal and conservative, overwhelmingly supported and applauded the bold initiative. And the dread specter of right-wing revolt all but vanished even in Algeria itself, where diehard French ultras had warned...
Married. Kristin Norstad, 21, only daughter of NATO Commander General Lauris Norstad; and Nicholas Wesson Craw, 22, student at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and son of Medal-of-Honor-winning Army Air Corps Colonel Demas Craw, who was machine-gunned by Vichy troops on a truce mission in the North Africa campaign in 1942; in Paris...