Word: aprill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commander, Colonel Henderson, quizzed Medina and some of his troops. He reported orally to the division commander. Major General Samuel Koster, that about 20 noncombatants had been killed by advance shelling and in crossfire between U.S. and Viet Cong forces. He was asked to put that in writing on April 24, 1968. Henderson, at Roster's request, then asked Barker to investigate formally, and Barker's report, equally limited, was accepted by Koster; the report apparently did not even reach the top Army command in Saigon...
Washington seems to have been alerted for the first time by letters mailed on April 2, 1969, by Viet Nam Veteran Ronald Ridenhour. As Army Chief of Staff, Westmoreland ordered a full Pentagon investigation on April 23. As a result of that investigation, Laird says, he personally informed President Nixon in August that "we would have to court-martial Galley for murder-and the President told me to go right ahead." On Sept. 5, the charges were announced, but with no mention of how many killings were involved. It was not until November that journalists learned of the magnitude...
...formal and informal statements over the last few years, both Pusey and Ford have emphasized that a dean should serve only as long as his president. Before last April's strains on the Administration. Ford had said that he planned to resign with Pusey...
Tension between Ford and liberal Faculty members increased after a letter stolen from Ford's files was published last April. The letter, from Ford to Pusey, criticized the Faculty's ROTC vote as hasty and ill-conceived...
Ford, who will be 19 on December 26, was hospitalized for several weeks last April with a mild stroke. Edward Mason, professor of Economies, served briefly as acting dean then. Ford said when he returned this Fall, that he had completely recovered...