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Unemployment, now 5% of the labor force, stands at a five-year peak, and many experts predict a small additional rise this fall. Among those most affected are young people, who face difficulty getting hired at all. One unexpected result is that the Marines are attracting higher-quality volunteers. "They...
Despite efforts by their U.S. guide and the South Vietnamese prison commandant to keep them away, the Congressmen found what they were looking for: two low-slung buildings containing 80 windowless cells with bars in the ceilings. Luce and the Congressmen described the cells, each of which held three to...
He was known as "the gentleman commandant" because he wore an impeccable white SS jacket and always sported a long riding crop while making the rounds at Treblinka, a Nazi death factory in Poland. He never personally mistreated a prisoner, and often arranged for brass bands to play while groups...
Between 1942 and late 1943, a total of 700,000 people were slaughtered at Treblinka, more than half during the single year when Franz Paul Stangl, the gentleman commandant, was running things. Last week, in a West German federal court at Düsseldorf, Stangl, 62, went on trial on...
Bad Conduct. The charges against Priest ranged from encouraging desertion and sedition to violating 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...