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Street crime, Wilson concedes, is less tractable. His basic approach is to flood difficult areas with highly qualified, tightly supervised patrolmen. His force is still 500 men short of its authorized strength of 5,100, but Wilson has intensified recruiting?in part by using a Pentagon program that releases servicemen five months early if they sign up to be cops. Thanks to his extensive lobbying before Congress, starting salaries have been raised to $8,500 (his own salary is $28,500). Wilson
Nearly 2500 students at the University of Maine have volunteered to donate blood for servicemen in Vietnam. Anti-war protestors said the blood drive will demonstrate that their primary goal is to save lives...
...trial, which ended last week, was regarded as an important test of growing dissent in the military. About 50 antiwar publications have appeared on various bases during the past two years; servicemen have marched in off-base peace parades and requested permission to hold discussion groups in their barracks...
...Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which broadly forbids "all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and discipline." Priest's law yer David Rein argued that his client had not directly urged desertion by reporting on groups in Canada that counsel U.S. servicemen who have fled the country. Most important, said Rein, Priest's views were protected by the First Amendment and indeed were no more unusual or harmful than those of General David M. Shoup, retired Marine Corps commandant, who was called to testify on his behalf...
...handles its own discipline would require a revolution in its structure and mentality, Sherill suggests the obvious solutions. Move important cases into the civilian courts. Tighten up the Uniform Code of Military Justice to get rid of the vague language that sanctions arbitrary sallies against the constitutional rights of servicemen-sections like Article 134 which prohibits "all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces." Sherill is also well aware that with the House and Senate Armed Services Committees in tight control of congressional action on the Armed Forces, the prospects of even minor reforms-much less...