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...this week's cover story on the Calley trial, we relied on two dozen correspondents in the U.S. and abroad to report on all aspects of the case and its aftermath. Two of the reporters-Washington's John Mulliken and Atlanta's Peter Range-have had experiences that put them unusually close to the issues and personalities involved in the assignment...
...American life that will not heal, however soothed it may seem for long stretches under the balm of continuing U.S. withdrawals. Last week it opened anew in an angry, troubling and sometimes ugly hemorrhaging of national passions. The cause was the verdict of premeditated murder against Lieut. William Calley, a decision that served to arouse all the varied and temporarily suppressed emotions of America's longest and most frustrating...
LEUT. WILLIAM CALLEY'S secretary, Mrs. Shirley Sewell, had just come back to his apartment with the 1971 tags for Calley's Volkswagen and motorboat. Calley had just got up from a nap when Captain Brooks Doyle Jr., his young deputy military counsel, walked through the door. "They've got a verdict, Rusty," Doyle said. Calley stopped in his tracks, his face a mask of fear, his right fist pounding into his left palm. "So they're finally ready," he mumbled, turning into the bedroom to don his Army greens. Half an hour later, Calley walked shakily before...
...Ashen, Calley marched off to the Fort Benning stockade. The next afternoon he was back before the court-martial to make a final statement before sentencing. Choking back tears, occasionally gasping for breath, Calley spoke first strongly, then in a breaking voice. "Yesterday you stripped me of all my honor. Please, by your actions that you take here today, don't strip future soldiers of their honor." Captain Aubrey M. Daniel III, 29, Calley's brilliant, tenacious prosecutor, followed. "You did not strip him of his honor," Daniel told the jury. "What he did stripped him of his honor...
...Calley, 27, was convicted Monday by a military jury at Ft. Benning, Ga., of the premeditated murder of at least 22 Vietnamese old men, women and children at My Lai. He was sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor...