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...Tank Corps established as its philosophy that there was to be no room for personal initiative, but rather in view of the technical knowledge demanded, one must follow the superior's order to the letter, without question. In curious contrast to the silence after the slaughter at My Lai, a full parliamentary commission was instituted in Israel to investigate the rudeness displayed by Israeli soldiers to Arab refugees in the Gaza Strip...
...children." Such was the finding of a poll commissioned by two Harvard scholars. Unsurprisingly, then, by a ratio of better than 5 to 3, the 989 Americans interviewed thought that Lieut. William Calley Jr. should not have been brought to trial for his part in the massacre at My Lai...
...Chou En Lai comes to Washington to celebrate May Day with President Nixon. As a prank following the passing a ceremonial opium pipe, Tricia sends two Secret Service men to switch off William O. Douglas's pacemaker. Douglas goes into a coma and retires indignantly from the court. After a brief but heart-felt search by Attorney General Mitchell for a "Black Jewish woman Southern conservative," Nixon announces the appointment of John Dunlop to fill the empty seat, saying, "His work with the building trade industry has earned Professor Dunlop a well-deserved reputation as a strict constructionist." Roman Hruska...
...Vietnamese had been killed, he informed Henderson that the casualties had numbered only 20 to 28, and that "I would not let anything like that happen." With Medina's testimony, the case against Henderson was seriously undermined. Of the 25 men who originally faced charges stemming from My Lai, six have come to trial. Of them, only Calley was convicted...
...before, his successor as commander of the 11th Brigade, Brigadier General John W. Donaldson, was exonerated by the Army equivalent of a grand jury of charges that he had murdered six Vietnamese civilians by shooting them from his helicopter (TIME, June 14). The incidents were not connected with My Lai and were alleged to have taken place several months later. After a four-month investigation, the charges against Donaldson, the highest-ranking officer to be accused of murdering Vietnamese civilians, were dropped...