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...legal equivalent of a cell. There, under the relaxed guard of a single MP, with a color television set and regular visits from his girl friend Anne Moore to help him pass the time, the Charlie Company platoon leader who led his men into a small hamlet called My Lai more than three years ago serves his imprisonment...
...doodles of the newsmen covering his trial. As Medina and Calley await the results of the legal proceedings against them, the cases of nine other soldiers implicated in earlier investigations were closed. Five officers and four enlisted men received administrative reprimands for their roles in the massacre at My Lai...
China-ization. Turning away from global matters, Chou En-lai was even more interesting. He showed considerable knowledge of the U.S. A friend had told him that the blacks were making progress, and he declared himself pleased. Chou also showed a gift for the facile parallel. The Americans started guerrilla warfare, he declared at one point. "George Washington started it." He likened Vietnamization to what he called "China-ization," U.S. support for Chiang Kai-shek in his resistance to Mao Tse-tung's revolution in the late 1940s. But Chou conceded that "America has its merits. It was composed...
...expert though impassioned distillation of the trial proceedings and still feel that the six jurors -all combat veterans acting against their own instincts as professional soldiers-could have reached any conclusion other than the one they did. The conclusion: in the 1968 U.S. assault on the hamlet of My Lai, Calley was guilty of the premeditated murder of at least 22 defenseless Vietnamese babies, children, women...
...Calley lied and lied blatantly on the stand." He was also ill-advised by his attorneys, especially his civilian counsel, George W. Latimer, whose defense strategy was "confusing and confused, rambling and directionless." The defense at various times argued that: 1) there was no large-scale killing at My Lai; 2) yes, there was a lot of killing but it had been done by helicopter and artillery rather than Galley's platoon; 3) the scared and vengeful mood of Galley's men made a slaughter inevitable and they could not be blamed; 4) Calley had not committed...