Word: serviceman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threw out that conviction last week,* the U.S. Supreme Court indicated that the military's jurisdiction over such civilian crimes would henceforth be severely limited. In peacetime, ruled a 5-to-3 majority, unless the alleged crime is "service-connected," an accused serviceman in the U.S. may not be deprived of his constitutional rights to a grand jury proceeding and a trial by a jury of his peers. In O'Callahan's case, Justice William Douglas wrote for the majority, "there was no connection-not even the remotest one -between his military duties and the crimes...
...taken from the script of the next John Wayne movie or from the citations of Medal of Honor winners. They are simply the everyday stuff of battle in Viet Nam, where, according to a new study, unsung and unrecognized physical heroism is routine. In combat, the American serviceman turns out to be just as remarkable as he appears on film...
Desertions Up. An attempt has even been made to unionize the military. The American Serviceman's Union was founded at Fort Sill, Okla., in 1967 by Pvt. Andrew Stapp, who has since been discharged from the Army. The A.S.U. (total membership about 5,000) advocates a program that includes election of officers, an end to saluting, and recognition of the right to bargain collectively and disobey "illegal" orders...
...Cover: Dimensional collage by Dennis Wheeler. A yeoman three in the Naval Reserve, Graphics Designer Wheeler chose ribbons* for his symbolic serviceman in khaki that range over four wars-World War I, World War II, Korea and Viet Nam. He is well aware that no one man could have won them all. "Grouped together," he says, "they stand for valor." Carefully examined, they also say something else. Since his cover figure represents a military Establishment under attack, Navy Man Wheeler decided to slip in a nautical signal for trouble. On shipboard, that would be the ensign flying upside down...
...hold themselves in contempt if they failed to try. The struggle against the captor can become an obsessive way to assert one's defiance of a hostile universe. But the majority of men are not assailed by such temptations of existential heroism. For the most part, the U.S. serviceman fights hard, risks his life and sometimes gives it in the service of his country. It seems unreasonable to ask him to continue risking his life in prison merely to avoid signing a scrap of paper that nobody takes very seriously anyway...