Word: calley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smaller, more vulnerable men like Lt. William Calley can be sentenced for killing women and children in Vietnam, then there must be a higher tribunal for statesmen like Kissinger, who uphold the policies which make such atrocities necessary. But then, there is always the danger of lapsing into academic exercises about old atrocities when other deeper lying ones have yet to surface. And if Henry Kissinger can be accused of anything, it is playing his power game so well that his policy threatens to explode the very balance of forces which he has so ruthlessly defended...
...grand jury inquiry. This would consist of a formal investigation, conducted by a superior officer of the accused general, who in turn would be permitted to cross-examine. If there is sufficient evidence, the military would then proceed with a court-martial. In the wake of the Calley verdict, it is unlikely that the Government will look the other way, despite the stars on the officer's shoulders...
...write hundreds of letters protesting a seal hunt, but when your Lieut. Calley goes about shooting women and children, the same Americans try to make a national hero...
...Calley trial and its aftermath of recriminations, soul searching, protests, etc., must be a good joke to Hanoi leaders, who, without any qualms, have pursued the policy of annihilation of anybody who does not agree with them...
Uncommon Deference. At the Pentagon, some 75 veterans showed up to turn themselves in for war crimes. "We all want to be arrested along with Lieut. Calley," said Samuel Schoor, 23, of Los Angeles. Three of them talked with Air Force Brigadier General Daniel ("Chappie") James, who told them: "We don't take American prisoners." Others were turned away from the National Press Building, where they sought to inquire about censorship of war news, and from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where they visited disabled vets in two wards before they were thrown out of a third...