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...virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the U.S., and as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the U.S.," President Eisenhower last week enunciated the U.S.'s first formal code of conduct for prisoners of war. The code resulted from the bitter experience of the Korean war, in which 38% of 7,190 U.S. prisoners of war died of disease, malnutrition or maltreatment,* and in which at least 192 P.W.s were found chargeable with collaborating with the enemy. It was a stern document, founded upon "the qualities which we associate with men of integrity...
...Codes of Chivalry. The new U.S. code of conduct for prisoners of war (see box) is the kernel of a finding by the Advisory Committee on what happened to U.S. soldiers captured in Korea. For several weeks the committee consulted former P.W.s and their records, sifted through military histories and reports of the P.W.s in Korea seeking answers to the problems from service chiefs, educators, clergymen, doctors and psychiatrists, officials of labor and veterans' organizations. To set the precedents for the new code, the committee researched back to primitive man, who automatically slaughtered all of his prisoners...
With its "search and track" Tacan equipment, an airplane sends out "query" signals to a Tacan ground beacon. The ground beacon, identifying itself in International code (which the pilot can hear), sends out signals in "reply" to the aircraft. To determine distance, the plane's Tacan continuously measures the time interval between its own "interrogation" signal and the reply, computes the time delay into miles, and indicates the figure on a dial on the instrument board. The same radio pulses are simultaneously performing a more complicated process. To determine direction, the ground beacon's pulses pass through...
Although Rojas claimed that he had clamped down on the press only because it failed to live up to its own "code of honor," Bogota newsmen noted that censorship began on the eve of the President's long-postponed weekend visit to Ecuador, repaying last year's good-will visit to Bogota by President Velasco Ibarra. Just to be on the safe side, President Rojas took with him a huge retinue of 115 Cabinet ministers and officials, including all the friends and foes of consequence who might dream of plotting behind his back. Rojas installed an Acting President...
Student. In Altadena, Calif., arrested after 200 burglaries, a 14-year-old boy told police he had boned up on the lives of famous criminals, studied the California Penal Code, was planning at the time he was caught to practice his technique on two small safes he had spotted in city hall...