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Behind the tortuous unraveling of the American role in Viet Nam, as well as the national debate over the court-martial and conviction of Lieut. William Galley, there lies a haunting problem: well-intentioned men faithfully executing their duty as they see it can find themselves responsible for horrible events. By coincidence, in the week that the Pentagon papers emerged, Yale Law Professor Charles Reich (The Greening of America) addressed the problem in The New Yorker. Reich wrote: "Evil now comes about not necessarily when people violate what they understand to be their duty but, more and more often, when...
...forthcoming charges began to seep out). If Hutchin decides to proceed, the next step is a formal investigation under Article 32, the approximate Army equivalent of a grand jury hearing. Then, on advice from the Judge Advocate General's attorneys, Hutchin may or may not order a court-martial...
...they set up not only a top-heavy military establishment on the island (1,600 generals and 200 admirals by one authoritative estimate) but also two parallel civilian governments. One supposedly rules the Republic of China. The other administers the province of Taiwan, which since 1949 has been under martial law, backed up by an active political police force...
...professional duty to make a report. Koster did in fact inquire into the incident. He asked Colonel Oran Henderson, commander of the brigade that included Lieut. William Galley's Charlie Company, to fill him in. Henderson is being tried by court-martial for failing to make a proper report...
Insolent Demands. The kidnaping incensed-and embarrassed-the two-month-old, military-backed government of Premier Nihat Erim. Eleven provinces have been under strict martial law since the end of April, yet the Liberation Army, which abducted and then released five U.S. servicemen earlier this year, was still able to nab Elrom...