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...Benning, Ga., Lt. William L. Calley Jr. admitted yesterday that he had ordered the mass execution of unresisting Vietnamese men, women and children and fired at civilians himself in My Lai nearly three years...
...tested the upper reaches of production and consumption, they opened up new territories of violence. The war would not end. For all the professed incredulity about it, the My Lai massacre has dripped acids onto the nation's conviction of its own innocence. At home, the Sharon Tate murders were so incomprehensible as to excite a stunned awe at what orgies of violence are possible. In the presence of such insanities, many Americans have grown introspective. It is a reaction built on residues of abhorrence going back through sad, internal video tapes to Nov. 22, 1963. Americans seem...
According to the Army's charges against him, Lieut. William Calley killed 102 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai three years ago. But in the long process of his trial at Fort Benning, Ga., Rusty Calley has become a celebrity, almost a hero to some. His secretary has collected 10,000 fan letters v. seven in a file marked "derogatory." Paul Harvey, the conservative commentator, has dispatched no fewer than 25 letters. In the first, Harvey said: "I have every confidence that you are a fine military officer that we can all be proud of." A Calley friend in Atlanta...
...only My Lai trial now under way is that of Lieut. William Calley Jr., a platoon commander in Medina's Company C. His trial has been delayed while he undergoes sanity tests ordered by the presiding judge. A major contention of his defense is that he was only carrying out the orders of his superior officer...
...military law that grants soldiers the right to civilian counsel then goes on to prohibit any Government payment of expenses; therefore, it would be wrong for the Army to provide mail, phone and transportation services free of charge. When Aronson noted that civilian lawyers for defendants in the My Lai massacre and the 1969 Green Beret double-agent murder cases were given extensive military cooperation in Viet Nam, the Army counsel brushed the comparison aside, stating that "special political considerations" were involved in those cases...