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...Lai case were dropped and if the country were building a national spirit for the war drive, perhaps this point could be forgotten. But there will be more My Lai prosecutions, including one of Col. Henderson for covering up the news of the massacre. And more importantly, publicity is finally arriving for Vietnam veterans who are announcing that American war policy is brutal and criminal. The Winter Soldier Investigations and this week's war crimes tribunals in Washington, D. C., should trigger the same curiosity as news about Calley...
...five picayune charges that were recently filed against Lieutenant Font. Four of the five "offenses" were of such an arbitrary nature that the majority of today's officers might be charged with an occasional violation of one or more of them. While charges of murder at My Lai are dropped in case after case and the mass relocation of Vietnamese peasants is considered, the Army plays games with an individual who is attempting to make himself heard as a man of conscience...
What took place at My Lai has to be considered to be a tragic day in the history of our nation. But the greatest tragedy of all will be if political expediency dictates the compromise of such a fundamental moral principle as the inherent unlawfulness of the murder of innocent persons...
Hawk to Dove. Though he prosecuted Calley to the limit of his ability, and was appalled by the scope of the My Lai massacre (once prowar, he is now a dove), Daniel feels no animosity toward the lieutenant. "You can't let these things become a personal matter," he said. "In the long run, it is simply a matter of whether justice is done. If that happens, our society wins...
Last Tuesday, Premier Chou Eu-lai told the visiting table tennis players that their trip to China had "opened a new page in the relations of the Chinese and American peoples...