Back home in California after the war, Baskin teamed up with his brother-in-law, Army veteran Sgt. Irv Robbins, to sell creatively flavored cones to civilians.
Experts predicted that if Mr. Wahid tried to impose martial law, the army would defy him.
Some of his friends were poets (including Ovid and Bassus), and he had no interest in politics, the law, or army life.
"Do we want the armed forces to assume the responsibility of stabilising the nation through imposing martial law, and army in the streets?
"How can you kill a man without subjecting him to the court of the law?" Former army general Khama's Botswana Democratic Party has ruled for nearly half a century.
"Do we want the armed forces to assume the responsibility of stabilizing the nation thru imposing martial law, and army in the streets?" he said.
Under martial law, the army was given blanket search-and-arrest powers and was empowered to ban all public gatherings, enforce a curfew, restrict press freedom and stop the circulation of all "printed material and other documents harmful to public order and security".
In fact, when President Polk appointed two Catholic "chaplains" in an effort to stop the propaganda that the war was an attack upon the Mexicans' religion, he made these as political appointments rather than chaplain appointments, saying that there was no law authorizing army chaplains.
On Twitter, Mr. Abdullah vowed that anyone found guilty would be punished, in spite of laws shielding army personnel from criminal charges while working in Kashmir.
Since that incident, gun laws concerning army weapons have tightened.
Neither her father nor her father-in-law, the army officer William Spencer Beaumont, were willing to give financial support to Hathaway and her six surviving children.
