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There is a rather disreputable ghost haunting the U.S. departure from Viet Nam-Lieut. William Calley Jr. Last week the Army Court of Military Review upheld his conviction for the My Lai massacre, and approved his sentence of 20 years at hard labor for ordering "subordinates to participate in the mass summary execution of unarmed, unresisting men, women and children." The decision will be appealed still higher, to the U.S. Court of Military Appeals, and President Nixon has said he would make the final ruling himself...
True, one may suspect that it is unjust for Calley to be the only man imprisoned for the My Lai affair. True, one may wish that clemency eventually be shown to the draft evaders. One may wish, in addition, that both the righteous right and the righteous left soften their positions. Yet the Coffin proposal smacks as much of an ill-considered trade-off as it does of Christian forgiveness. The two situations are really unrelated, both legally and morally. Each therefore deserves to be judged on its own merits, not as part of a jubilee...
...threat they perceive across the Russian border. He conceded that his "rather gloomy view" is not understood in the U.S. "The New York Times view of the world," Alsop archly observed, "doesn't include the possibility of such as I have outlined, but Mr. Chou En-lai very definitely does. So one of them is obviously crazy...
After resting briefly in Hong Kong, Kissinger will spend four days in equally delicate discussions in Peking. These talks, too, will be important in providing a new spirit for the relationship begun by President Nixon, Kissinger and China's Premier Chou En-lai last year. The Viet Nam War always cloud ed those earlier meetings and Washing ton is anxious to see what new progress can be made now that the war is ending. One topic likely to be discussed is the amount of military aid that China intends to give Hanoi; Nixon has appealed for "restraint" by both...
...accusing him of creating "fiction," insubordination and poor leadership. But whatever weaknesses Herbert's case against his two immediate superior officers may contain, the evidence he presents against the Army's conduct as such is overwhelming, triangulated as it is by all the press reports, the My Lai trials and the PX scandals that have come before...