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...Lt. William R. Calley again makes headlines as a result of a recent court ruling permitting him to be freed on bail pending an appeal of his previous convictions for "murdering at least 22 Vietnamese citizens at My Lai March 16, 1968." I would like to make it as clear as possible that no one could more deeply deplore than I the crimes of Lt. Calley. They really border on the insane. It is certainly conceivable, however, that an unstable character might have honestly believed that he or she was carrying out the orders of superiors, or even those...

Author: By Hugh B. Hester, | Title: My Lai Six Years Later | 3/12/1974 | See Source »

...Lt. Calley, along with hundreds of thousands of other American military forces, was not sent to Korea and Indochina to repel aggression, or in support of freedom and independence, as officially proclaimed, but to rob the people living there of their national resources for the profit of the privileged few here in the USA. This was made splendidly clear, as far as Indochina is concerned at least, by President Eisenhower in a speech to the Governor's Conference in Seattle, Wash., Aug. 4, 1953 in which he mentioned the rich resources of the area and mentioned tin and tungsten among...

Author: By Hugh B. Hester, | Title: My Lai Six Years Later | 3/12/1974 | See Source »

...also true of the acts of other U.S. ground forces. All of these crimes were, of course, in violation of international laws which the U.S. government agreed to obey. This is the primary reason, in my view, why so many concerned Americans consider the trial, conviction and sentencing of Lt. Calley to prison as absurd and literally obscene...

Author: By Hugh B. Hester, | Title: My Lai Six Years Later | 3/12/1974 | See Source »

...security patrol is a student-run body under the control of Harvard police Lt. George Hill. Meyer said that all matters of personal safety are referred to the police, although the presence of any uniformed person will hinder would-be offenders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Uniformed Students Aid Campus Police In Security Patrol | 3/12/1974 | See Source »

...Lt. Harry Callahan has been criticized for taking the law into his own hands in his first movie. So in gun-toting tyro John Milius's Magnum Force screenplay, Harry is a law abiding liberal--at least in comparison to a uniformed squad of vigilantes, acting under orders of a San Francisco police commissioner. They enjoy killing everyone who is in cahoots with criminals, including innocent party girls. Harry, who still loves his Magnum 44 with the passion Clint Eastwood usually reserves for faithful animals, refuses to go along with them. "Nothing's wrong with shooting as long...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Speed and Thump | 3/7/1974 | See Source »

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