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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since then, five more of the accused have received penalties ranging from nine months to six years. Last week at Fort Ord, Calif., twelve others were found guilty of mutiny-despite defense pleas during the 35-day trial that the men were emotionally disturbed by the shooting of their fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: The Mutineers | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

The voice of General Odumegwu Ojukwu, carried by Radio Biafra, vibrated between impassioned outrage and constrained eloquence. The 18 men that Biafra's boss referred to-14 Italians, three West Germans and a Lebanese -were employees of the Italian government's oil combine, ENI. They were captured last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biafra: Reprieve for Eighteen | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

Last week, giving in to the storm of clemency petitions, Ojukwu announced that the sentences of the 18 "nonindigenous collaborators" were being commuted and they were allowed to leave the country. Ojukwu, a Catholic himself, had been moved by Pope Paul's pleas for mercy, according to the Biafran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biafra: Reprieve for Eighteen | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

Platitudinous Drivel. The mood of the delegates, white and black alike, was as militant as the resolutions. After the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Michael Ramsey, told the delegates that "there was no room for discrimination" in the house of God, the Rev. Channing Phillips, a black United Church of Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Churches: Violence Justified | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

In Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Kopit displayed a minor gift for surrealistic comedy, and in Indians he has attempted to entertain when not pulpiteering. The format is that of a Buffalo Bill Wild West show. In London, where the work originally opened, the parody-circus scenes came first, including the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Play: Don't Be Beastly to the Redskins | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

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