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...been ordered. But last week the case of Captain Howard Levy took on unexpected significance both as a precedent in military law and as a chapter in the worldwide debate over the Vietnamese war. For the first time in a U.S. military court, the war-crimes doctrine of Nürnberg was allowed as a defense strategy; those who charge the U.S. with heinous atrocities were invited to put up evidence...
Indeed, the main reasons for the big summer exodus from America this year are that the new low-fare airline deals for groups (as little as $230 round trip to London) and the go-cheap package tours ($398 for 15 days visiting London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Nürnberg, Innsbruck, Venice, Florence, Rome, Lucerne and Paris). Such prices are within the range of almost everyone-from $90-a-week secretaries to $7,500-a-year family men. And already the big international airlines-TWA, Pan Am, BOAC -are booked solid for their 21-day trips throughout July and early August...
Nearly two decades ago, seven men stepped hopelessly from a van in the red brick forecourt of Berlin's Spandau Prison. They were the senior survivors of the 22 Nazis brought to trial for major war crimes at Nürnberg. Their compatriots in crime-among them Luftwaffe Boss Hermann Göring and Wehrmacht Chief Wilhelrn Keitel-had escaped imprisonment by either suicide or the noose...
Leaders Only. Hanoi claims that the Geneva Convention is irrelevant be cause North Viet Nam is not officially at war. Moreover, it invokes the Nürnberg trials, in which the victorious World War II Allies punished Nazi leaders as war criminals. The Ho regime, itself the aggressor in South Viet Nam, maintains nonetheless that the U.S. is carrying on an aggressive war and that its pilots have committed the crime, as defined by the Nürnberg Charter, of causing "devastation not justified by military necessity." Hanoi's reasoning ignores the fact that U.S. bombing raids have been...
...rnberg precedent is inappropriate for other reasons as well: the Nazi trials were staged by an international tribunal, involved only highest-ranking enemy leaders,* and came at the conclusion of hostilities. In any case, the humane treatment of war prisoners has long been prescribed by international law and by accepted standards of decency. War, as Montesquieu wrote in 1748, gives neither side any right over prisoners other than that of "disabling them from doing any further harm by securing their persons...