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...first the accusations concerned only overt acts: murder, assault, rape, maiming. Last week, however, the formal charges spawned by the 1968 My Lai massacre took a dramatic and basic turn. Fourteen Army officers, including two already accused of murder, were cited for what they did not do-for not reporting the atrocities to higher authorities or not telling the truth during a subsequent inquiry. Two of the accused are generals, one of whom, Major General Samuel Koster, was until last week superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point...
Stony Visage. The announcement of the indictments came at a Pentagon briefing conducted by Army Secretary Stanley Resor. At his side stood General William C. Westmoreland, the American commander in Viet Nam at the time of My Lai and now Army Chief of Staff. His stony visage reinforced the impression that the Army indeed is convinced there was a massacre. It also bespoke the Army's determination to do everything possible to prove that it is now pressing the investigation as vigorously as possible...
...Army's slow-moving and presumably painstaking investigation into the killing of South Vietnamese civilians at My Lai is beginning to climb the chain of command. The Army charged Lieut. William L. Calley Jr., leader of a platoon that swept through the village on March 16, 1968, with the murder of 102 people. Three enlisted men in Galley's unit were also accused. Last week Calley's immediate superior at the time, Captain Ernest Medina, commanding officer of C Company in the American Division's 11th Infantry Brigade, was charged with murdering four civilians and assaulting...
Instinctive Firing. Shortly after members of his company began talking publicly about the tragedy last November, Medina appeared on television and at a Washington press conference to claim that he saw "no shooting of any innocent civilians whatsoever" in the My Lai attack. He did admit personally killing a woman, explaining that he had fired instinctively, thinking she was armed, when she moved suddenly. He sharply denied the account of one of his soldiers, who said that he saw Medina shoot a boy. The charges against Medina now include those two deaths. They also include the alleged murder...
Three other enlisted men of Medina's company were charged last week with various offenses at My Lai, including rape, murder and assault with intent to commit murder, bringing the number of men officially accused so far to ten. They include one other officer, Captain Thomas K. Willingham, who was in charge of a platoon in another company operating about two miles from Medina's group during the assault. Five other men still in the service are under investigation, as are 22 members of Medina's company who are now civilians. The Army and the Justice Department...