Word: mp
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...blacks descended on another bus and ejected a white couple, but they in turn were run off by a black military policeman. Later the black soldiers began filing back to their barracks; their number grew as they paraded past the officers' quarters. Then an off-duty white MP who found himself driving in their midst panicked and sped off, knocking down five women. None was seriously injured, but by then the crowd had grown ugly. A white worker who wandered out at the wrong time was severely beaten, as one black admitted later, "just because he was white...
...dismissal from the Army and loss of pay were upheld by Connor, but the Army will continue to pay for his rent, food and utilities in the private apartment at Fort Benning that is considered the legal equivalent of a cell. There, under the relaxed guard of a single MP, with a color television set and regular visits from his girl friend Anne Moore to help him pass the time, the Charlie Company platoon leader who led his men into a small hamlet called My Lai more than three years ago serves his imprisonment...
...Five MP's in two cars responded to Ciccolella's call and took Font to the military police station. After four hours during which he was not allowed to call his lawyer, Font was told that he had not been arrested, only "detained." He was released with severe restrictions placed on his movements and activities...
...still coming in at the rate of 2,000 letters a day. They have yet to find a hostile message. Florists' vans turn up daily with bouquets of roses or carnations, and the neighbors bring gifts of food. Since Calley is still considered an officer, his MP guards call him "sir." His most urgent problem is money; the fan mail has brought in only $3,000 for his defense fund. He has only received about $15,000 of his share of a $100,000 advance from Viking Press for Lieutenant Calley, an expansion of his Esquire "confessions" to Writer...
...least he's not a prisoner of war in his own country." Removing Calley from the stockade had an enormous symbolic effect, but it will not change his life all that notably. To his dismay, all beer and liquor were removed from his apartment. He has a permanent MP guard in the apartment. He may leave his home only under escort, to eat at an Army mess hall and to exercise for one hour daily. He may talk on the telephone or see only those friends on a "correspondence and visitation list." All of which makes for a curious, almost...