Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last month the U.S. Court of Military Appeals unanimously threw out the conviction. "Military discipline, harsh as it may seem, is essential to the efficient functioning of our armed forces," conceded Judge Homer Ferguson. "But when it is perverted into an excuse for retaliating against a soldier for doing only that which Congress has expressly said it wishes him to be free to do, this court would be remiss if it did not condemn the effort to persecute him." Schmidt's announcement that he would write the papers "to expose to public view the unlawful and unjust measures which...
...Central Garrison Because of the far-reaching effects of the class struggle, especially the Two-Road Struggle in the villages on ideology, and also the natural disaster which happened last year and this year, there is some unrest in thought among a part of our comrades. The soldier Chang Lichen said: "At present, what the peasants eat in the villages is even worse than what dogs ate in the past. At that time dogs ate chaff and grain." Commune members ask: "Is Chairman Mao going to allow us to starve to death?" The soldier Liu Ho-shan said: "Our country...
...0055th Army Unit, there happened from September to December 1960 three incidents that led quickly to suicides. The first involved a soldier of the Artillery Company, Kung Ho-yu, an excellent League member and a "five-excellence" soldier. On Aug. 25 he stole three yuan ($1.80), and on the 30th of the same month confessed his wrong. Someone, while charging him with previous thefts, cried: "If you freely confess, we shall be lenient with you, but if you deny these charges we shall be very severe." Kung showed that his feelings were deeply and bitterly stirred, and that night, when...
...Archbishop Makarios to retired Greek Army Colonel George Grivas. The year was 1951, and the two were meeting in Cyprus to discuss Grivas' plan for an armed uprising against the British. Though Grivas went on to lead his revolt-and help win independence for Cyprus in 1960-the soldier and the Archbishop could never seem to make peace. Last week they were bickering as bitterly as ever. Only this time, their disagreement was threatening the six-month-old government of Greek Premier Stephan Stephanopoulos...
SSgt. Barry Sadler's best selling album, "Ballads of the Green Berets," purports to fall into this last category, and the jacket blurb is certain, "that many years from now these songs.... will be recalled as a true expression of the Vietnam combat soldier's feelings during the time of that fierce encounter." It's an inviting prospect: elderly Special Forces veterans spinning this disc on their various VFW record players in years to come, and sobbing into their suds. "That's the way it was, man; that's the way it really was." But SSgt. Sadler's collection...