Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student reporters have enviable connec tions in high places. They expose everything from White House "plumbers" and shaky missile deals to consumer fraud and child abuse. This does not go down well in a small southwestern town, and its ill will bubbles over into a slaughter by National Guardsmen obviously modeled on Kent State...
...four students killed at Kent State have been buried for 4½ years. But the restless search for justice for them and nine others wounded by Ohio National Guardsmen seems likely to haunt the U.S. on through history. What was apparently the last chance for a criminal court to set the matter to rest ended last week when Federal Judge Frank J. Battisti ordered an acquittal on technical grounds for eight Guardsmen defendants-even though, he added, they may not have been "justified in discharging their weapons...
...invasion of Cambodia. Then Attorney General John Mitchell refused to bring any federal charges. But parents, survivors and sympathizers would not accept that result. Last year Attorney General Elliot Richardson was persuaded to renew the investigation. This time a federal grand jury charged eight of the Guardsmen with willfully violating the victims' civil rights...
...rights to life and liberty, it is necessary to prove not only the consequence of the illegal act but the purposeful intent to commit it in violation of constitutional prohibitions-a tougher standard of guilt than that required in a murder trial. Prosecutors were able to show that the Guardsmen had used "excessive and unjustified" force, but, said Battisti, who acted before the defense had begun its case, "the Government has presented no evidence bearing directly on the intentions of [the] defendants who fired their weapons." He said that the evidence suggested that the "Guardsmen fired for any number...
...present an odd contrast to the American government's unwillingness even to let people who never killed anyone, and in many cases went into exile to stay that way, back into the country. And the cases are a reminder that people with greater responsibility for more deaths than the Guardsmen or Calley, and whose orders made the Guardsmen's and Calley's actions likely--the folks running the Ohio and especially the United States governments--never came up for trial at all. Indeed, the idea of trying them remains as unconsidered as a proposition that the government owes draft-dodging...