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NEWS OF THE SLAUGHTER of civilians at My Lai 4 hamlet in March 1968 outraged the world, and the Nixon administration's attempt to conceal the report of the Peers commission which investigated the deaths deserves similar condemnation...
...make for victory. "Fox gave five million bucks to a director who never ceased to repeat that he hated track. They finally believed him when they saw the movie." A kind of track-style Downhill Racer, its significance lay in the irony that Ryan O'Neal starred and Francis Lai scored the music. Thses elements were to combine with Segal in a later somewhat more successful venture. Also, Segal recruited the producer's son (Fred Linsk 74) for the Harvard track team...
...tide when he observed that "news stories should not be editorials." But the real advocacy to be guarded against, he said, is the "sort that accepts the status quo as the norm." One of the few old-fashioned admonitions came from Seymour Hersh, who first broke the My Lai story: "There is not a newspaper in the country where, if you assemble your facts and do your work hard enough, they won't put [an expos...
Suddenly the optimism and euphoria began to fade. VC sappers dynamited a culvert on Highway 13, five miles north of Lai Khe, shattering the comforting illusion that the road was safe. Two patrols of airborne troopers marching toward An Loc were badly mauled in ambushes. Then at 11 a.m. the next day, enemy rockets and mortar shells pelted the column's artillery. ARVN tanks blazed back furiously, but with little success. An ARVN tank was hit by a B40 rocket and exploded into a blazing wreck. Tac air was called in, and for 40 minutes, VNAF Skyraiders...
...more than any previous conflict, has helped to foster violence at home. One evidence of the war's impact is indicated by a recent national survey of attitudes toward the Calley case. According to Harvard Psychologist Herbert Kelman, many Americans regard Lieut. Calley's behavior at My Lai as normal. That suggests, Kelman concludes, that an alarmingly large segment of the population might be willing to employ extreme violence if ordered...