Word: calley
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...Call me Bob" Haldeman will receive from CBS. So we can forget some of the current stars of the lecture circuit: John W. Dean III, Ronald L. "Over-There-Is-the-Hippopotamus" Ziegler, Bob-Woodward-and-Carl-Bernstein, and Rabbi Baruch Korff. And although Lieut. William L. "Rusty" Calley has now hit the lecture tour as well, even color-slides from Mylai would represent only a footnote to the history that Richardson in his pre-Watergate incarnation helped make...
...years. Very likely our next war will be of the type that Clausewitz called "wars of policy" -conflicts unlikely to yield quick, unambiguous victories. The war will not be popular, therefore; the draft will be reintroduced; and the officer factories will go on double overtime. It is possible another Calley will be commissioned and that another massacre will occur. What we can labor to assure is that such an episode will be exposed the Army itself swiftly, honestly, by remorselessly...
...tries to whip its new all-volunteer force into shape, the U.S. Army is doing its best to rid itself of the lingering legacies of Viet Nam. Two weeks ago, Army Secretary Howard H. Callaway paroled Lieut. William L. Calley, the only man convicted for taking part in the My Lai massacre. With Calley free, Callaway last week took another calculated step toward exorcising the demon of Viet Nam. Saying he wanted "to tell it like it is," the Secretary released key parts of the Army's official inquiry into what happened at My Lai on the morning...
...courts-martial growing out of what happened at My Lai, Calley was the only man convicted of any crime in the massacre. His attorneys appealed that verdict in the civil courts, and last September a federal judge overruled the Army and threw out Calley's conviction, partly on the grounds that pretrial publicity had prejudiced his case. That set the stage for last week's double denouement: the civil courts released Calley pending the Army's appeal to uphold the conviction, and Army Secretary Howard H. Callaway paroled Calley, since he had served with good behavior...
...seemingly contradictory Army actions reflect two realities. The military wants to put Viet Nam behind it, particularly the case of Calley. But it is concerned about the effect on military discipline of the precedent that civil courts may reverse court-martial judgments. Thus the Army will continue to appeal the overturning of Calley's conviction, even though Calley's freedom is now no longer an issue...