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In mid-June, a Marine Corps court martial in Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, sentenced
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Jones's attorney, John Murcko, said that all seven motions to dismiss the charges against his client were denied. The most important of these was a motion to free Jones immediately on the grounds that his right to a speedy trial was denied. Murcko has demonstrated, to no avail, that the Marines' own rules regarding time limits to proceed against Jones were grossly violated.
Being both judge and jury, the Marines managed to lose Jones's CO application and misfile charges against him, all in an effort to delay proceedings in order to maximize the time Jones was confined to camp LeJeune while he awaited his "day in court".
Similarly, Jones's motions regarding the use of "illegal command influence" and
"selective persecution", were also dismissed.
Appeals of these decisions have been filed by Murcko, but a positive result is doubtful.
Friends and supporters can write to Jones as
:F Ti
_an follows:
NIC SE NEDESE. JEN ZAS NEJANÝ OTŘESY NA LONDÝNSKÉ SURZE..
Corporal Tahan Jones USMC, Social
Securitv Number 564-43-9533. Confine-
"Nothing going on - just some bother on the London stock exchange"
ment Facility, Marine Corps Base, Camp
LeJeune, NC 28542.
Jeff Mackler (Reprinted from the
July issue of Socialist Action). *
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Elections prolong uncertainty
International Viewpoint # 236 • October 12, 1992
ROMANIA va, whose population is Romanian, presents a particular problem for the regime in Bucharest. So far, Iliescu has resisted the temptation to make political capital out of the issue of reunification with Moldova for a number of reasons. Firstly, in Moldova the majority seems to be