Word: servicemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate and House approved and sent to the President a compromise $576 million military pay bill designed to keep skilled technicians and the best leaders in the armed services. The bill provides an increase ranging from 6% to possibly 60% for nearly all servicemen in uniform at least two years, and sets up extra-pay responsibility grades for officers and proficiency ratings for enlisted men. ¶ The Senate passed (46-36) an area redevelopment bill, sponsored by Maine's Frederick Payne and Illinois' Paul H. Douglas, that provides $375 million (compared to the $50 million President Eisenhower requested...
Since 1951, for example, the U.S. has negotiated more than 40 status-of-forces agreements granting friendly nations primary legal jurisdiction over American servicemen overseas who commit off-duty, off-base violations of law. The host nations guarantee each G.I. the basic rights of U.S. justice (e.g., a fair trial), but not the U.S. forms for securing those rights (e.g.., trial by jury). The status-of-forces agreements cover some 14,000 cases a year without bruising the U.S. sense of justice. They received dramatic confirmation last year in the case of Army Specialist Third Class William S. Girard...
Bursting with fury, Korean newspapers labeled the incident a "vicious lynching," demanded a status-of-forces agreement that would allow Korean courts to try U.S. servicemen. General Decker hastily expressed regret at the treatment given the boy, "even though he was caught in the act of stealing" (a fact most of the Korean newspapers failed to mention), and promised "appropriate action...
...Broomstick Would Do. Yet for all the rivalry, hard-working servicemen and civilian specialists along the whole broad front of U.S. missilery felt a new nearness to space as Explorer radioed back its readings (see SCIENCE). And of the legions of scientists, generals, admirals, engineers and administrators at work on missiles and man-made moons, German-born Wernher von Braun, 45, best personified man's accelerating drive to rise above the planet. Von Braun, in fact, has only one interest: the conquest of space, which he calls man's greatest venture. To pursue his lifelong dream...
...dunning him for $3,777. Explanation: Under "unknown circumstances," i.e., snarled by red tape, the Navy had continued to send the commander his retirement pay after it was officially cut off. The Journal again front-paged the story, raised a ruckus that may well prompt congressional action to give servicemen ironclad retirement benefits...