National Affairs: A Crucial Case of Murder

Last May, four air police walked into the Jones & Laughlin mill in Pittsburgh and asked for Bob Toth, a young (21) steelworker. When they found him at work, the APs handcuffed him, took him to the Greater Pittsburgh Airport, where he was ordered aboard a military plane. Five days later, Toth, who had gotten his honorable discharge five months earlier, was in a guardhouse in Taegu, Korea, awaiting trial by court-martial on a charge of murder.

At Washington's National Airport last week, Bob Toth. a wan and bleary-eyed traveler, stepped from a commercial airliner into the arms of his tearful mother...

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