Word: lais
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possible that everyone who has been in Viet Nam, or knows someone who has, knows of atrocities like those of My Lai...
...wonder why the people of this country have not become sufficiently outraged at what "supposedly" occurred at My Lai. I think most Americans are upset, but since in this country a person is supposed to be innocent until proved guilty, most of us are willing to await the trial when all the evidence will be presented before we make a determination with regard to Lieut. Galley and the others involved in the case. TIME, and the other news media as well, would do well to remember this when reporting the news...
...Viet Nam veteran, I think Lieut. Galley should be court-martialed, fined $2, given a carton of cigarettes, promoted to captain and reassigned to the Pentagon. What I gather from reports is that My Lai was a V.C. village, and Charlie Cong is not a conventional soldier, but a toothless old woman, a goateed old man or a mine-setting little boy. Lieut. Galley and his men did no wrong. They just did their job-staying alive in a rich man's war but a poor man's fight...
Minimum Constraints. Many observers go even further. They question whether Calley can get a fair trial in any court of law-military or civilian. Where, they ask, is the potential juror who has not heard or read some account of events in My Lai on March 16, 1968, that would affect his verdict? President Nixon himself may have influenced the trial when he asserted at his press conference this month that civilians were killed in the village. "There is not anybody in this country," insists Calley's civilian attorney, George Latimer, "who does not think that the My Lai...
...career officer who has seen combat is in fact much more likely than a civilian juror to understand the strain on the G.I.s at My Lai. Professor Paul Liacos of Boston University Law School believes that Galley's fellow officers may well resist pressures from above to make him a scapegoat. Moreover, says Lia-cos, such men are "usually sophisticated compared with most juries, and it is harder to sway them by emotionalism...