European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 13, 1969 the stars and stripes log 9 of � Nof designed for us Luff guys1  or re to Why the Book at Presidio men r. D. Heinl or. As six subdued handcuffed git were led into the heavily guarded courtroom at the presi Dio in san Francisco the question being asked by Many including some army offi cer was Why exactly the army threw the Book at them. These six the first of 27 to come to trial As a result of a sit Down in the Presidio stockade last october Are being tried As mutineers. Mutiny is the most serious military crime in the Book. While the prosecution has Al ready announced it will not de Mand the maximum penalty Mutiny carries a death sentence and is thus a capital crime. In nonlegal terms Mutiny is a wilful conspiracy resulting in concerted action to overthrow military authority. The action charged in this Case is that the 27 mutineers conspired to con duct a sit Down demonstration when ordered to fall in for working details. Although the charge of Mutiny it uncommon it is by no Means As rare in the . Army As is generally believed. Since 1953, there have been three army Mutiny trials not including the present Case. None has ended in a death sentence but All involved stiff penalties. The latest Case also a stockade insurrection was that of the Long Binh uprising last August in Viet Nam in which the ringleader Drew 15 years. The Only Mutiny in the Nav took place aboard the .s. Somers in 1845. The leaders were hanged from the Yardar. There is surprising agreement Between army sources and de sense counsel headed by Ter ence Hallinan a vigorous Young civil rights lawyer As to these Quence of events that brings these soldiers into court. These events army sources underscore must be viewed in the local con text of san Francisco beset by Stu Dent and Black militants of Ernest Cuneo Pueblo Case shows up admirals the Pueblo inquiry it rapidly turning into a congressional investigation of the defense department. The serious Lack of co ordination Between the services As disclosed by the admirals has raised the question particularly in the Senate of Why the billions voted Haven t produced a More efficient defense. This will result in a close scrutiny of defense expenditures. The presumption on the Hill has been that defense depart ment appropriations should be granted out of hand. The reason is that few legislators wished to take the responsibility of deny ing requests the military deemed necessary for National Security. The Pueblo inquiry however is regarded As showing a naive and misplaced Faith in the competence of the Pentagon. The Pueblo court is regarded As a combination of a Gilbert and sul Livan operetta and a Caine Mutiny trial in reverse on the cold record the performance of the admirals has been appalling. Incredibly an Admiral testified that the Navy depended upon International Law to protect the Pueblo. Apparently the Navy overlooked that International Law was theoretically protecting the sleeping Pacific Fleet it Pearl Harbor on de. 7, 1941. This indicate a fundamental misconception the it Ltd services. L�ry purpose of the department of defense � to protect the nation when intern Hon Al Taw fails. The Admiral dowry had confused the inomftlo4mi Law Section of the Library of pm Gress for an attack Carrier. Nj4 Only was the Pueblo unescorted but no sea support was available. If International Law had not failed South Korea could not have Boon invaded. This indicates shocking negligence in the failure to consider contingent emergency. Cmdr. Bucher is accused of surrendering his ship. The Union to radiated testimony is that he re Quested both More effective weapons and heavier Demoli Tion devices and such requests were denied. Hence in addition to providing for no support it is Clear that his superiors were on notice that the ship could not defend itself nor could it be destroyed. An Admiral then testified that after the Pueblo s distress Sig Nal it took three hours to reach the air Force. Pearl Harbor was Over in two hours. Since billions upon billions have been spent upon communications the sen ate intends to go into full detail of the causes of the failure of the electronics systems. Bucher is accused of signing a confession admittedly under duress of the enemy. However his resolve could not have been fortified very much by the moral support to received from Home while the Craw was in enemy hands. The majority Leader of the Senate suggested that the United states admit intrusion into North korean Waters though it was t True. The Secretary of defense suggested that Bucher might not have followed his orders. By contrast every one of Bucher s Crew including his officers have stood up to be counted with what is Little less than reverential Loy Alty. The first Trust of any . Officer is the lives of his men. When Bucher signed the confession after being told the alternative was seeing his Crew killed starting with the Young est he upheld the highest traditions of the service. Cd North american newspaper Alliance sick sick demonstrators Paul Harvey at Long last the psychologists Are beginning to speak up. Much rest Veness which bedevil us at Homo and abroad is so readily explained psychologically Yot up to now these scholars have been unexplainable silent. Or. Bruno Bettelheim broke Tho ice. This distinguished psychiatrist at the University of Chicago had like Tho others Boon disinclined to diagnose from a distance Tut when Tho Dis Turbed students distressed his own Campus students whom to knew personally or. Bettelheim spoke out Many of these demonstrators Are Parano lacs they Aro sick sick Thoy need psychiatric  or. Bettelheim explained that their Misle adors Aro not Nece parity mentally ill. Thoy know what Thoy Aro doing. They Aro purposely fomenting revolution kiting those irrational students to gain that end or. Bettelheim says probably there Aro no More paranoiac around now than previously it s just that Mas Media Are now giving them More  Tho excuse manufactured for the sit in on his University of Chi Cago Campus was a protest against the dismissal of a faculty member and a demand that Stu dents have equal say so in Tho hiring and firing of the faculty. Nobody Ever imagined that latter demand was valid Yot 200 students continued to disrupt Tho administration of an 8,600-Stu dont University. Presidential commissions As signed to explain Why people riot have almost totally ignored this psychological Factor. Indeed Tho Kemer commission blamed the rioting on everybody except the rioters what s misled Many of those Well intentioned investigators is that the shouts of the riot loaders sound rational. There is a degree Al Validity in their expressed re naturally As Fri director j. Edgar Hoover has tried to warn us and As or. Bettelheim now explains the organizers of such protests As the one on his Cam pus Are skilled professional revolutionaries. Many americans Are quite rightly mentally disturbed these Days Over unprecedented academic pressures Over the Mal administration of our foreign involvements Over the hypocrisies so conspicuous on the Home fronts. When the emotional stress re sults in manic depression or what or. Bettelheim Categorises generally As paranoia such acutely unbalanced students Are naturals to follow the professional pled pipers of on alienist. If they do indeed need psychiatric treatment and fail to get it now remember those Malcon tents ctr Toon to graduate into business and Industry. You Don t change much with hut a one Otto to shave and a haircut and a business suit Sci toss. Pm ral Fatur corp. Ready availability of Ltd and other drugs in the Haigh Ash Bury setting and of a highly developed anti Vietnam resist Ance throughout California. The problem of awol sol Diers mostly avoiding or re fusing Vietnam duty is so widespread in the Bay area that the army has had to establish a special processing detachment at the Presidio almost entirely composed of Vietnam resisters awaiting disciplinary or other disposition. On oct. 11, pvt. Richard Bunch who attorney Hallinan maintains was an Ltd smashed psychotic in desperate need of psychiatric help was shot and killed by a guard when he ran away from a work detail. That night there was a biotin the Presidio stockade to pro test not Only Bunch s shooting but also alleged overcrowding and prison grievance procedures an army investigating offer later described As shoddy and  the following Day in an unrelated development which nevertheless Shook army authorities some 1,000 gis and army reservists conducted an anti Viet Nam peace Parade Down san Francisco s Market Street. It was against this background that at the Presidio stockade s 8 . Formation for sick Call and then for the Day s work assignments on oct. 14, 1968, 28 prisoners sat Down in a Circle linked arms and began to sing we shall  when notified of what was afoot the stockade commander approached the demonstrators and ordered them to desist using a Bull Horn because their chant ing drowned out his commands. When the prisoners ignored him he read them the contents of article 94, uniform code of Mili tary Justice which prescribes the penalties for Mutiny. One demonstrator heeded the warning and left the group which was then forcibly broken up by Mili tary police. When investigators obtained admissions from prison ers that the sit Down had been planned charges of Mutiny wore preferred. To the army Embarrass Mont however its own pretrial investigating office copt. Rich Ard j. Millard rendered a report ankh recommended against Mutiny charges and stated this Cato has Boon built up out of All fair  Millard urged that the prison erf to charged instead with will Ful disobedience of orders a serious offence in itself for which five years imprisonment can to imposed. M i 11 a r d s recommendations were however Over ruled by it. Gen. Stanley r. Larsen who com mands the 6th army and the Presidio. La North american newspaper Allie a the opinion exp a in the column and cartoon on Thip go report a Tho a of the author and a in a Way to to conlder4 a pro of Ting the View of Tho 6ur and Stripe it Alt of of the United state a rank