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Show lit. Ml JANUARY 8, 1969 SUNDAY. 14A Sunday Herald UUh Ufh County, Mutiny Cases Stir Up Army : By PAUL R. JESCHKE FRANCISCO lUPI)- -! "Any person found guilty of Itempted mutiny, mutiny, or edition, or failure to suppress w report a mutiny or sedition, sball be punished by death or soch other punisument us a cwrt marth! may direct." iFor 27 prisoners lodged in the stockade at the Presidio of San Frenciseo high on a bluff overlooking the Golden Gate. Bridge, these lersc words from tile manual for courts martial1 hjue taken on a grim re: lilyj i ;SAN Military authorities dusted off the Infrequently used mutiny emerge and accused the GI's of "Refusing in concert with others w ooey orders during a nbnviolent sitdown strike to call attention to alleged inhumane conditions. Antiwar Circus ; preliminary hearing comoletcd before the Christmas JA lengthv hblldays recommended the soldiers be brought to trial. The riport is before Lt. Gen. Sjanley Larsen, Sixth Army commander, who is almost certain to approve. JSo far, however, the Army ins proceeded cautiously. Civilian lawyers, they charge, are attempting to "turn this into lome sort of antiwar circus." ;The sitdown strike began Oct. 14 when the men refused to go oil a regularly scheduled work Retail accompanied by armed guards. They said they were o o o shooting, easy," said Ford. "They included, he said, wrist slashprotesting attempts at hanging. three days earlier, of Pvt. have too much time to sit ing, Richard Bunch, 19, Detroit, around and try to build up a swallowing razor blades and Mich., who was shot In the back case that they should be let out. drinking poisons. None of these charges can bej rorrj while fleeing a work detail. "numeacknowledged because they sim- rous" apparent suicide attempts substantiated Attorney Terence Hallinan, at the facility. He said every who represents 17 of the alleged ply are not true." Ford, who has operated Army case was examined by an Army mutineers, claims Bunch was in "desperate need of psychiatric stockades at Ft. Ord, Calif., and, doctor "and not one was help" and actually told the Nuernberg, Germany, said the! classified as a suicide attempt." guard he was going to try to charges were an "unfortunate "They were rather suicidal people scratching escape "in hopes he would be attempt to tie up officers and gestures shot." men that could be in Vietnam themselves with razor blades or drinking something or other, Army authorities have re- helping us end the war." maybe slr.mpoo, knowing full civilian He ere said all fused attorneys requests by ne'vsmcn well they were not endangering to interview the prisoners. They "trying to turn this into some their lives," he said. circus-chargof to sort antiwar have also denied permission ing The Army policeman specifi newsmen to visit the stockage, in effect that these prisoners denied cally allegations of although such an inspection was are being abused because they overconditions, unsanitary the Bunch to before Vietnam the are permitted opposed crowding and poor food. War." shooting. Bad Actors Inadequate Food of the matter Is," SCOUT OFFICIAL DIES fact "The 10 Hallinan has collected TOKYO (UPI) Tamotsu from Ford said, "that these guys are affidavits handwritten prisoners. He says they prove in the stockade because they Marayama, 63, an American- bad acors everyone of born veteran Japanese touma the mutiny is nothing more than an attempt to force them has gone AWOL not once list and Boy Scout official, died aboard the liner to rectify the or twice, but as many as half a Tuesday the military Oriental Queen en route from intolerable and inhumane condi- to do with the war. tions at the stockade." The "Five of these men have Tokyo to Hong Kong, the Japan affidavits allege inadequate and actually volunteered to go to Times said today. in born was unsanitary shower and toilet Vietnam in order to get out of Murayama Wash, and was city Seattle, bad and facilities, this mess, but we're not buying overcrowding editor of the Japan Times from inadequate food, and charge And of the whole group of 1945 1962 to and helped that guards encourage suicide prisoners, only one has even the Boy Scouts in reorganize attempts. conscienbothered to ask for Japan after the war later Col. John C. Ford, Presidio tious objector status." serving as board of the National An affidavit filed by Pvt. Association of the provost marshal and top militaBoy Scouts of on the San John David Coup, one of the ry policeman Japan. Francisco post, flatly denies the stockage prisoners, there were 33 attempts at Greek Poet Hesiod said: "For charges. 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