Court Martial
A front-page headline in the New York Times of January 12 — "Peru Sentences New Yorker to Life in Prison. She Was Convicted of Treason for Backing Guerrillas" — reflects the impact that the conviction of Laurie Berenson has had in the United States. Congressmen such as Joseph Kennedy, human-rights organizations, and American legal scholars have joined the State Department in expressing displeasure at the way Berenson was tried by a military tribunal. Published January 18, 1997.