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Accepting Atrocities. Nixon may well have damped the popular outcry. Few of the pro-Calley demonstrations planned last week drew much of a turnout; in San Diego, for example, only 250 supporters-a mixed bag of John Birchers and antiwar protesters-turned out to rally and march for Calley. "The President sort of took the steam out of people," said Terry Repsher, a Houston high school junior. Dallas, however, bloomed with bumper stickers demanding: WHY CALLEY? A giant pro-Calley billboard blossomed in Bridgeport, Conn. But from the Timber Ridge School in Skokie, Ill., a Chicago suburb, 41 students wrote...
Around the world, the admiration that the U.S. had won for trying and convicting Calley was quickly qualified when Nixon intervened in the case. Pro-Americans and anti-Americans were dismayed, for a kaleidoscope of reasons. East Germany's Neues Deutschland ran in adjoining columns pictures of Angela Davis in chains and Lieut. Calley leaving the stockade. Private Eye, London's black-humor satirical review, ran a cover photograph of Charles Manson with the caption: "I should have joined the Army." In Saigon, the respected, generally critical newspaper Duóc Nhà Nam objected: "The Nixon decision...
Money Problem. Throughout it all, Rusty Calley remained ensconced at 31-D Arrowhead Road; Calley, his secretary, Mrs. Shirley Sewell, and his girl friend, Anne Moore, invested in a $35 automatic letter opener to try to keep up with the mail, which peaked at 10,000 pieces in one day and is still coming in at the rate of 2,000 letters a day. They have yet to find a hostile message. Florists' vans turn up daily with bouquets of roses or carnations, and the neighbors bring gifts of food. Since Calley is still considered an officer...
...acted emotionally and without being aware of the evidence that was presented and perhaps even the laws of this nation regulating the conduct of war. To believe, however, that any large percentage of the population could believe the evidence which was presented and approve of the conduct of Lieutenant Calley would be as shocking to my conscience as the conduct itself, since I believe that we are still a civilized nation...
...such be the case, then the war in Viet Nam has brutalized us more than I care to believe, and it must cease. How shocking it is if so many people across this nation have failed to see the moral issue which was involved in the trial of Lieutenant Calley-that it is unlawful for an American soldier to summarily execute unarmed and unresisting men, women, children and babies...