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...servicemen in World War II, the pronouncing alphabet (Able, Baker, Charlie, etc.) was well suited to rolling off the American tongue. But not so for servicemen of other lands. Since the French, for instance, have no such sound for a as in able, the word comes out ahble. Baker became Bahkay or Bahkair. In 1947 the International Civil Aeronautics Organization began working out a new alphabet that would be readily pronounceable for all. As the result, last week NATO's forces officially shifted from...
Faulkner added that servicemen who, like the Lubells, have refused to tell the Army about past left-wing activities are in an ambiguous position before the courts. Federal District Judges have criticized the Army's policy of trying to discharge servicemen with past left-wing associations, he said...
...came by car): "I'd just as soon ride in a boiler factory." "Gratitude & Appreciation." Despite the unsettling side of "Operation Banana" -a highly successful exercise in Government mobility nonetheless-Administration leaders last week settled down at Camp David for conferences with the convalescing President. As Secret Servicemen loitered watchfully in the saplings outside Laurel Lodge, Ike's aides sat inside around a green-baize table. One day the NSC conferred with the President for two hours; the next day the Cabinet spent another two hours...
Legal Sanctuary? Judge Tamm made his ruling on the basis of the recent decision in the case of Robert Toth (TIME, Nov. 21), in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that ex-servicemen cannot be tried by court-martial for crimes committed while in the armed forces. If the military thus has no jurisdiction over civilians who were at one time in the service, said Judge Tamm, then the military obviously has no jurisdiction over "persons who were civilians all the time...
Judge Tamm acknowledged the fact that his ruling, if upheld by higher courts, would cause major problems for the armed forces. It surely would. There are more than 265,000 dependents overseas with American servicemen, along with nearly 142,000 civilian employees of the armed forces. All these would seem to be placed in a sort of legal sanctuary by Judge Tamm's projection of the Toth decision. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons estimates that the Tamm ruling could free at least 50 persons who, like Mrs. Covert, were civilians overseas with the armed forces and therefore beyond...