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...wonder what Lieut. Calley's fate would have been if he had refused to carry out the orders of his superiors...
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...early nomination for TIME's Man of the Year is Lieut. William Calley, scapegoat of a war we don't know what to do with. What a laugh: convicted of premeditated murder [April 12]. All of us who called for those bomb-bay doors to be opened while serving in World War II knew we were going to kill civilians as well as military. And what about Hiroshima...
...America's collective conscience can now rest peacefully, knowing that we have justly incarcerated the man responsible for all the war crimes committed by the allies in Southeast Asia. With Lieut. Calley behind bars, our mission of good will in Southeast Asia will be able to proceed without the recurrence of any American-initiated atrocities...
WHEN Richard Nixon announced that he would release Lieut. William Calley Jr. from the Fort Benning stockade to house arrest and then added that he intended to review the Calley case before final sentence is carried out, he left several interesting things unsaid. One was that two days before he reportedly awoke at 2 a.m. to wrestle with his conscience over the Calley affair, the President discussed congressional distress at the guilty verdict by telephone with his party's leader in the House, Representative Gerald Ford of Michigan-although the White House insists it was not the President...