Word: ask
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest of the guys." On the way in, he said, "some individuals jumped out of a hedge 15 to 20 yards ahead of us. They had what we thought were guns. It was a surprise and we opened fire. When something like this happens, you don't stop to ask questions." West learned that his group had slain four women and two old men. Their "guns" turned out to be the traditional sticks that peasants use to carry belongings...
...West told him to turn the group over to Captain Medina. On the way out of the village, West recalls seeing a ditch filled with dead and dying civilians. His platoon also passed a crying Vietnamese boy, wounded in both a leg and an arm. West heard a G.I. ask: "What about him?" Then he heard a shot and the boy fell. "The kid didn't do anything," says West. "He didn't have a weapon...
...Congress has not enacted the necessary legislation. Nor can the Saigon government prosecute the discharged My Lai participants-even if it wanted to. An agreement signed by the U.S. and South Viet Nam prevents each country from trying nationals of the other. As an alternative, the Army may ask President Nixon to appoint a special commission to try the men under the 1949 Geneva Convention that forbids deliberate mistreatment of noncombatants in a war zone...
...Smith but former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul H. Nitze, a relative hardliner who backed Nixon's Safeguard program. The Soviets also remain preoccupied by fears that the U.S.'s so-called 'military and industrial complex' will torpedo the talks. In Helsinki, Soviet newsmen continually ask Americans, 'Who has Nixon's ear?'" Some Americans suspect that the Soviets are deliberately playing up their distrust of the Nixon Administration. Their object, according to this reasoning, is to force Washington to prove good faith by granting concessions greater than last week's renunciation of bacteriological...
...issue of unusual significance which had barely squeaked through two appointed committees, President Pusey did not even ask the Faculty for its opinion. Brooks sprung the decision on the Faculty for the first time at a meeting last Tuesday, telling them he was speaking "for the information of the Faculty, not for action...