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...other event that reopened the fair-trial, free-press issue came last month, when Federal District Court Judge J. Robert Elliott reversed the conviction of William Galley and ordered him released from confinement in the My Lai case. Elliott's foremost argument was that "massive adverse pretrial publicity" had prevented the six-officer panel at Galley's court-martial in 1971 from considering the case without prejudice and that, therefore, he had not been fairly tried...
...case went up the line of military justice, the reviewing authorities answered yes to those questions again and again, though the original life sentence was reduced to ten years. Galley's lawyers then turned to civilian courts. Last week in Columbus, Ga., Federal District Court Judge J. Robert Elliott ruled that Calley had indeed been convicted unjustly...
...long (132 pages), complex and somewhat eccentric opinion, Elliott concluded: "His country not only denied him a fair trial-it even denied him a fair chance for a fair trial." He held that Galley had been deprived of due process on four counts. The charges against him had been improperly drawn because "the prosecution did not identify any individual as being one that the petitioner killed or ordered to be killed...
...107th Psalm is optional), while a black-draped crew member sprinkles the loved one's remains into the Pacific from a ceramic Grecian urn. For an additional $250, as many as 20 relatives and friends can attend the scattering from the deck of Neptune's bar-and-galley-equipped yacht K'thanga. Telophase eschews even such limited funeral frippery. It charters a boat, makes no provision for guests, stores ashes in boxes and scatters 50 to 60 people per voyage...
...most important town Cypriot Turks have occupied since troubles began on the island. Residents of Kyrenia fled to refugee centers in tourist hotels that were protected by U.N. soldiers. Said Andreas Karioulou, 52, a noted diver whose discoveries off the island include a 2,200-year-old Greek galley: "It is hard to see your property go up in ashes. But I was born here, and I have no intention of leaving. The Turks should not keep us under guard forever...