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Even the U.S. Congress took up the war crimes question, albeit in an unofficial way. After the My Lai revelations, ten liberal members of the House of Representatives jointly sponsored the Congressional Conference on War and National Responsibility, where a number of experts on a specially invited panel expounded on matters like the relevance of the Nurenberg war crimes trials to American conduct in Vietnam, the use of experimental weapons like herbicides in jungle warfare, and the dilemmas of individuals who opposed...
...shooting has stopped in Vietnam, but My Lai, free-fire zones, napalming citizen populations, massive bombing of non-military targets, torture, herbicidal warfare and "forced-draft urbanization"--in sum, the tactics used by the American war machine in Indochina--all raise moral and legal questions that did not go away with the victory of the Provisional Revolutionary Government. The war crimes issue lingers, despite the silence of liberal and conservative politicians, and the American future that Ford says he will now concentrate on cannot be so easily separate from the sins of so recent a past...
...company, Visual Programme Systems Ltd., to make a film on the Nuremberg trials, and their application-or lack of it-to subsequent events, particularly the American participation in Viet Nam. Ophuls set out to explore the contested-some would say outrageous-theory that Nazi genocide and tragedies like My Lai are somehow comparable, an idea that had wide currency a few years ago. He had been inspired by U.S. Chief Counsel Telford Taylor's book Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy, which holds that American officials are accountable in the war but that there is no correlation between systematic...
Where are the Jane Fondas, George McGoverns and campus radicals who displayed so much wrath over our bombing of Hanoi and the My Lai incident? I find it disturbing that these doves show a dual conscience-one for the Communists and another for their victims...
...bought in Hong Kong. The Washington Post got the State Department to open up files on official foreign gifts to former President Nixon and his family. The Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman obtained 17,000 pages of research and other materials that the Army had withheld on the My Lai massacre...