Word: casing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Primary Allegiance. Serious legal problems also confront the Army in its case against Lieut. Calley and Sgt. Mitchell, the only active servicemen thus far accused of crimes at My Lai. For one thing, Army lawyers fear that detailed press interviews with potential witnesses may permit the accused to claim that they cannot get a fair trial. Almost surely, moreover, both Calley and Mitchell will argue at their trials that they acted under "superior orders," a legal defense that gained respectability in the 19th century when military officers extolled iron regimentation and insisted that superiors could do no wrong...
Disputed Orders. One problem for both sides in the My Lai case is to clarify and pinpoint the source of the orders that Calley and Mitchell will claim they obeyed. No one has yet produced records specifying Charlie Company's mission on March 16, 1968. What Calley's orders were that day may not be known until his lawyers present his case in court and others corroborate or contradict his claims. One of the contradictors might well be Captain Ernest Medina, the company commander, who has not been charged and thus may testify for the prosecution that...
...Even so, there was a moment of tension. Drifting down under its three big orange-and-white chutes in full view of a worldwide TV audience, Yankee Clipper suddenly seemed to be billowing smoke-a sight that was ominously reminiscent of the fatal Apollo fire in 1967. In this case, however, Skipper Conrad was simply venting surplus fuel, an operation usually performed at a higher altitude...
...dated but still pertinent case in point is Lillian Hellman, who signed a statement in the Daily Worker supporting the 1938 Great Purge trials in Moscow. The trials brought about the execution of Russia's greatest writers, together with millions of other innocent Soviet people...
...Cancer Ward, "threw mud on the motherland." Nine writers are reported to have called personally on the union's secretary to demand reconsideration of the expulsion. Seventy other writers are said to have sent letters or telegrams to the union call ing for a special rehearing of the case, and 300 others have reportedly written letters of protest...