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...howls of outrage emanating from the American people at Lieut. Galley's sentence [April 12] seem to indicate that Americans are not willing to do unto themselves as they did unto the Germans and the Japanese. America has a moral obligation to judge her own as she has judged others in the past. Or are the norms to be different for the victors and the vanquished...
...Army, an organization that trains people to kill, condemn Lieut. Galley for murder...
SOME dramatic action seemed needed amid the fresh divisions over the war. In the uproar over the Galley conviction, there was a yearning from both left and right to end it all. Democrats were demanding time limits on U.S. involvement. Congressional hawks were defecting. Yet when Richard Nixon appeared on television to discuss his embattled Viet Nam policy, he changed virtually nothing. He delivered a foxhole speech, digging in tenaciously in defense of his existing position...
...escort, to eat at an Army mess hall and to exercise for one hour daily. He may talk on the telephone or see only those friends on a "correspondence and visitation list." All of which makes for a curious, almost pseudo confinement, one dictated not by the gravity of Galley's crimes as much as by the anticipation of public reaction to the price he must pay for them, a bounty of possibilities ranging from life imprisonment to executive pardon...
...court that convicted Lieut. William Galley last week also made an unprecedented demand for some 60 hours of taped conversation between Galley and Writer John Sack, whose as-told-to stories are appearing in Esquire under the title "The Confessions of Lieutenant Galley." It was the first time a military tribunal had asserted the authority claimed by civilian courts, and in doing so Trial Judge Colonel Reid Kennedy said he did not consider Sack's stories the work of a journalist but a ghostwriter. "We're not talking about news but about a confession...