Word: presidio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...getting broad educations and display considerable political and social sensitivity. Still, the military as a whole, with its tendency toward stiffness and even narrowness, rarely copes well with the challenge of dissent. Thus, a military court meted out what seemed unconscionably harsh treatment to the "mutineers" at the Presidio in San Francisco, one of whom was sentenced to 15 years at hard labor for refusing to stop singing (the Army judge advocate in Washington later reduced the term to two years). Equally revealing of the military mentality was an episode that occurred recently at the naval base in Long Beach...
Four-fifths of the Divinity School faculty have signed a petition calling for an investigation of the circumstances in which 27 men were charged with mutiny at the San Francisco Presidio Stockade...
...petition declares "profound concern and passionate revulsion at the barbaric conditions reported to exist at the Presidio Stockade." The statement calls for all citizens" and veterans' groups to demand a full investigation by the President and Congress of the events of October 14, and of conditions in the stockade...
...routine roll call at the Presidio stockade in San Francisco was disrupted last October. Linking arms and singing We Shall Overcome, 27 Army prisoners staged a sitdown protest. An hour later, they were hauled off to their cells, charged with mutiny - one of a baker's dozen of crimes ranging from murder to rape punishable by death under the Uniform Code of Military Justice...
...soldier as his accuracy in firing an M-14. Supplying American military advisers there with the right words is fast becoming the primary mission of what its graduates call "Lingo Tech": the West Coast Branch of the Defense Language Institute, located at the Army's historic Presidio in Monterey, Calif...