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...week later, Colonel Arnold W. Alexander, the post commander at Ft. Meade, filed general court-martial charges against Font on five counts, carrying a maximum sentence of 25 years...
...even more significant. The President did not explain that Army machinery was already under way to spring Calley to house arrest, initiated at the request of the defense by Major General Orwin C. Talbott, commanding general of Fort Benning and the convening authority for Calley's court-martial. Many officers greeted Nixon's intervention with bitter dismay. One said of the President: "He knew all along that Calley was coming out. He just beat us to the punch...
...expansion of his Esquire "confessions" to Writer John Sack that is to be published in September. But the expenses of his defense have been substantial, and at the moment he is trying to find $700 to pay the Army for quarters occupied by his lawyers during the court-martial...
...time of My Lai? Clearly, the Yamashita decision is part of U.S. law until the Supreme Court or Congress amends it. Unlike Yamashita, moreover, Westmoreland had superb communications with his troops. But even if he is prosecuted for My Lai, which seems totally unlikely, a modern court-martial would unquestionably require detailed proof that Westmoreland had had actual knowledge or reason to know that Calley-style acts were likely to occur, and that he had failed to take reasonable steps to ensure compliance with the laws of war. "I feel no guilt," said Westmoreland last week. "My orders were that...
Completing the Rupture. The civil war erupted as a result of a victory that was too sweeping, a mandate that was too strong. Four months ago, Pakistan's President, Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, held elections for a constituent assembly to end twelve years of martial law. Though he is a Pathan from the West, Yahya was determined to be fair to the Bengalis. He assigned a majority of the assembly seats to Pakistan's more populous eastern wing, which has been separated from the West by 1,000 miles of India since the partitioning of the subcontinent...