Word: justness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Pentagon almost did, however. It was considered just another crank letter and drew little attention for almost a month. What got the Army moving were inquiries from two Congressmen: Mendel Rivers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee?a man the Pentagon always listens to?and Arizona's Morris...
The desire to equate all such savagery is tempting to some. Moscow's Trud compared My Lai "to the destruction by the Hitlerites of the Czechoslovak village of Lidice, the French town of Oradour-sur-Glane, and to the Nazi atrocities on Soviet soil." A baker in Bonn was overheard...
After Rusty left high school, things did not go so well. He quit Palm Beach Junior College in Lake Worth after a year, dropping out with two Cs, one D and four Fs in his seven courses. "It just seemed like the 13th year in high school," Calley says now...
To another neighbor, Karl Zaret, Rusty was "a good kid." Zaret adds: "I believe Rusty was just carrying out orders. The boy I knew respected his parents. He listened to what they said. He was a very reserved, quiet boy and very cooperative." Rusty's father, a Navy veteran, sold...
TIME Correspondent Ken Danforth interviewed Calley before the Army announced that the lieutenant would be court-martialed on charges of premeditated murder. Danforth saw him again at Fort Benning last week, but this time was not allowed to speak to him. "He could communicate only with a gesture of recognition...