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june, 1971 after six years, it had to be a disappointment, dylan. cause even if you pass it off as the same book of course it's different after six years, it has to be different after janis and otis and manson and lieutenant calley, not to mention spiro agnew and the flowering of bread and roses. some of it is pretty funny, I'll grant you that, and some of it is even sweet, in the way only you can be sweet, (like sweet and sour pork or a marguerita) but in all honesty most of it is pretty...
...singles, decked out in bell-bottoms and hot pants, in from the fancy apartment complexes surrounding Atlanta. At midnight Friday and Saturday, they don Uncle Sam paper hats passed out by the management to the tune of The Battle Hymn of the Republic and Dixie. When Lieut. William Calley was released from the Fort Benning stockade, Owner Don Davis dedicated the night's festivities "to Richard Nixon and Rusty Calley." Says Davis: "This is where the Silent Majority can make noise...
...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...
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...