Orders is orders in the Army. That hoary fiat has produced its measure of anguish and hilarity over the years. Its seriocomic aspects surfaced last week in the court-martial of a Viet Nam-bound private who said "I won't go," and didn't, and the troubles of a private first class on furlough who was told to await new orders, and did—for 18 unregimented months.
Happy Tears. Ronald Lockman, 23, the private who refused to go to war, announced his intentions at a San Francisco news conference the day he was scheduled to be processed for...
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