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...years ago today/ Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play." So begins the prescient title song of the Beatles' landmark album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. In London last week, Paul McCartney was back at Abbey Road Studios to pay homage to the 20th anniversary of a record that has sold 15 million copies and whose lyrics evoked comparisons with Tennyson and T.S. Eliot. EMI Records, for its part, celebrated the occasion by releasing the album on compact disc. As a group of well-wishers and Wife Linda watched, McCartney cut a cake shaped like the drum...
...Pentagon last week continued its retreat from charges that three U.S. Marine guards swapped secrets for sex in the Soviet Union. Deciding that a two-year statute of limitation prevents it from prosecuting Sergeant John J. Weirick for allegedly allowing Soviet spies into the Leningrad consulate sometime in 1981-82, the Marine Corps released Weirick, 26, from the Camp Pendleton, Calif., brig...
...week earlier, the corps dropped the charge that Sergeant Clayton Lonetree had guided KGB agents through the Moscow embassy. Lonetree, 25, is still charged with espionage for allegedly telling the KGB the identities of U.S. intelligence agents at the embassy...
...Botha is not a man given to changing his mind, so his listeners did not expect any surprises last week when the South African State President addressed the opening session of Parliament. Walking behind the sergeant at arms carrying the ceremonial mace, Botha entered the whites-only House of Assembly in Cape Town and faced the newly elected members sitting on green leather benches. In his schoolmasterish, staccato delivery, he told them that his government stood firmly on the principle of politics by segregated racial groups and that those who disapproved would not be permitted to use violence or otherwise...
...military drumbeat has cheered many civilian observers and dismayed as many others. For the same reason: the no-nonsense procedures of military justice would get right to the punitive point, without being deflected by wimpy legal niceties. But that vision of military law is at least naive. Sergeant Lonetree and Corporal Bracy may in the end face a grimmer outcome at the hands of a court-martial, but before that can happen, they will enjoy some advantages they would not have in civilian courts...