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...Lai(Cont'd) The U.S. Army last week filed charges against two more members of an America! Division company that attacked the South Vietnamese village of My Lai on March 16, 1968. Sergeant Charles E. Hutto, 21, of Tallulah, La., was charged with premeditated murder, rape and assault with intent to commit murder. Private Gerald A. Smith, 22, of Chicago, was accused of premeditated murder and indecent assault on a Vietnamese female. The action is preliminary to the possible convening of a court-martial for Hutto, now stationed at Fort Lewis near Tacoma, Wash., and for Smith, assigned...
Though the public does not agree with Agnew's overall attacks on TV and the press, it is highly critical of the news media for their part in reporting the My Lai incident. Sixty-seven percent of those polled believe that the press and TV should not have reported statements by soldiers involved prior to a trial. Americans show considerable sympathy for Lieut. William Galley, the platoon leader charged with over 100 of the deaths at My Lai. By a margin of 55% to 23%, they believe that Calley is being made a scapegoat by the Government...
Although Nixon has not been hurt by either My Lai or the moratoriums, his consensus is still clouded. Americans may support his policy in the short run, but they remain disturbingly uncertain about both the success of Vietnamization and the ultimate outcome of the war. A plurality of 41% to 39% believe that South Viet Nam will be unable to defend itself without U.S. troops. More significant, the number who feel that South Viet Nam will eventually go Communist has not changed one point since October. It was 43% then and remains 43% now. The message seems clear: Americans...
Five weeks after making its decision to court-martial Lieut. William Calley on charges of premeditated murder, the Army announced that a second man would be tried in connection with the alleged massacre of South Vietnamese civilians at My Lai. He is Staff Sergeant David Mitchell, 29, who led one of the three squads in Calley's platoon on March 16, 1968. He was charged last week with committing, with intent to murder, "an assault upon a group of 30 Vietnamese nationals, more or less, by shooting at them with an M-16 rifle." If convicted, he would face...
...served in Korea and Hawaii before going to Viet Nam in December 1967. He loved the Army, and recently, when asked to describe himself, replied, "I'm a hell of a soldier." He told a news conference last month that he had seen no massacre at My Lai and doubted that one had taken place. Last week in Washington he said simply, "I am not guilty...