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Denmark Justice Minister Knud Thestrup said he would take the case under advisement. Sources say U.S. reaction is a major concern. In response to Sweden providing sanctuary to U.S. servicemen, Washington withdrew its ambassador from Stockholm...
...code has been tested in the highest civilian and military courts this year by dissenting servicemen at home who complain of biased courts-martial, harsh sentences, prolonged pretrial imprisonment without bail and military efforts to stifle free speech. In a decision last summer that restricts the military's authority to prosecute servicemen for off-base crimes, the U.S. Supreme Court questioned whether a court-martial is really a fair trial or just another means of enforcing discipline. "A civilian trial is held in an atmosphere conducive to the protection of individual rights," wrote Justice William O. Douglas...
...code entitled servicemen to lawyers in all general courts-martial but not necessarily in special courts-martial (which outnumber general courts-martial by more than 20 to 1) unless the prosecutor was a lawyer. Because of a scarcity of military lawyers, most defendants at special courts-martial were represented by officers without law degrees. The U.C.M.J. also set up the U.S. Court of Military Appeals in Washington, which has decreed that men in uniform are protected by a number of the safeguards in the Bill of Rights...
...airmen, only nine men have been freed by North Viet Nam during the past five years. Because the North Vietnamese have generally refused to let prisoners write home and have not published the names of Americans held captive, no one knows exactly how many of the 1,300 U.S. servicemen listed as missing are actually languishing in cells north...
That afternoon Viet Cong bomb squads struck again. In Saigon they drove a shabby bomb-laden Citroën up to a U.S. language school for Vietnamese servicemen. As they fled the auto, the guerrillas gunned down three Vietnamese sentries. Then the car exploded, killing another nine Vietnamese and injuring 67 persons, including 28 U.S. Air Force...