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...Hutto, 21, of Tallulah, La., was charged with premeditated murder, rape and assault with intent to commit murder. Private Gerald A. Smith, 22, of Chicago, was accused of premeditated murder and indecent assault on a Vietnamese female. The action is preliminary to the possible convening of a court-martial for Hutto, now stationed at Fort Lewis near Tacoma, Wash., and for Smith, assigned to Fort Riley, Kans. Trials already have been ordered for Lieut. William Galley and Staff Sergeant David Mitchell. Investigations continue into the conduct of some 20 other members of the company involved in the alleged massacre...
...Linda Young in connection with an election story produced a sudden swain, who wrote: "I was madly in love with this girl who looks exactly like you. Anyway, she finally got married last September and I've been lost ever since. I don't know what your martial [sic] state is, but if you can write to me it would help very much." Linda could not decide whether to say that her martial state was armed or defenseless...
Five weeks after making its decision to court-martial Lieut. William Calley on charges of premeditated murder, the Army announced that a second man would be tried in connection with the alleged massacre of South Vietnamese civilians at My Lai. He is Staff Sergeant David Mitchell, 29, who led one of the three squads in Calley's platoon on March 16, 1968. He was charged last week with committing, with intent to murder, "an assault upon a group of 30 Vietnamese nationals, more or less, by shooting at them with an M-16 rifle." If convicted, he would face...
...global superpower to spotlight the thirteen red and white stripes of the embattled and once only partially united original states in order to remind us and all that we ourselves about two centuries ago were shaped in a sneaky fencerow guerrilla warfare that enraged the minuetlike martial formations of the Redcoats. It is an irony of American history, as we approach the two hundredth anniversary of our Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, that we should find ourselves as a nation half George III, half Edmund Burke, on the issue of a distant colonial people, who are not even...
Conversely, a number of lawyers contend that a military court may be biased in favor of Calley. The ten members of the court-martial, five or more of whom will ultimately decide Calley's fate, have already been chosen by Major General Orwin C. Talbott, commanding general at Fort Benning, Ga. All career officers at Fort Benning, they range in rank from captain to lieutenant colonel; five are in the infantry, two in the Signal Corps and three in other branches of the Army...