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Kudirka suffered a harsher fate. Last week the Lithuanian Supreme Court in Vilna sentenced the sailor to ten years in a prison camp for treason...
...recently recommended administrative punishment?demotion by one grade?for Calley's division commander, Major General Samuel Koster, and his assistant, Brigadier General George Young Jr., for failing to report the incident. General Koster was also officially censured. Those relatively minor strictures against general officers, compared with the harsher treatment of a young platoon leader, made the Army vulnerable to the suggestion that it had singled Calley out to carry the can for My Lai. Two sergeants in Calley's company were court-martialed for assault with intent to commit murder and acquitted...
Separatist trends are possibly much harsher among even younger blacks. Racial tensions infest all too many high schools (as well as the armed forces); a segment of young blacks has become totally alienated from America, even from other blacks. Many of the kids, says Dan Watts, editor and publisher of Liberator magazine, "are a lot more married to the Third World." Moreover, they "are not talking about what happens tomorrow. They couldn't care less." Their anger is cold; they cynically, knowingly, discuss "the system" and its inequities...
...House, which had discharged its duties much more expeditiously, openly assailed the Senate. "I am fed up with the procrastination, the indecision, the inability to get the job done on the other side of the Capitol," House Republican Leader Gerald Ford told his colleagues. Missouri Republican Durward Hall used harsher words: "The American people have been set upon, as was Caesar of ancient Rome, by supposedly friendly Senators...
...held him hostage for three weeks, speculation increased that the 16 would be treated with moderation. But when, after 21 excruciating days of deliberation, a verdict was finally produced by the five-man military tribunal and approved by the local military governor, some of the sentences were even harsher than those demanded by the prosecution. One defendant was acquitted, but the other 15 were sentenced to a total of 519 years in prison. In the case of the six Basques charged with the murder of a police chief in 1968, the court was not satisfied with simple death penalties; three...