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...arrest AWOL soldiers; "I'll protect them any way I can until this Calley thing is cleaned up," he declared. In Austin, Texas, the Statesman ran a scornful front-page editorial titled "Obituary U.S. Army"?and sold out the issue. "The death was announced by a general court-martial of six men," the editorial said. "Pallbearers will include Senators Fulbright, Kennedy and McGovern. Honorary pallbearers will include Moratorium marchers." The Texas senate called for a presidential pardon. Atlanta Printer Sam Yalanzon had takers for FREE CALLEY bumper stickers as fast as he could turn them out. Two radio stations...
Thus far, Calley is the only man involved in the My Lai affair to be convicted by a court-martial. In all, 25 officers and enlisted men have been charged with various offenses in connection with the incident. Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam at the time of My Lai, recently recommended administrative punishment?demotion by one grade?for Calley's division commander, Major General Samuel Koster, and his assistant, Brigadier General George Young Jr., for failing to report the incident. General Koster was also officially censured. Those relatively minor strictures against...
...produced a new U.N.-approved rule of civilized behavior: "The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him." The U.S. Manual of Courts-Martial...
...soldiers to make moral choices? Every recruit learns the Army's basic rule: instant obedience, a lifesaver in battle. Under military law, in fact, a man who refuses to follow an order is deemed guilty of that offense until he proves the order was illegal at his subsequent court-martial. The defense rarely succeeds. Disobedience in combat is even riskier: more than one soldier who has defied an order in battle has been executed on the spot, although this practice is not authorized by the military code...
...scale massacre has yet been revealed, Americans have committed a disturbing number of atrocities in Viet Nam. Many offenders have been strictly prosecuted. In 1 Corps in 1968, for example, seven Marines summarily hanged a Viet Cong suspect and shot two others to death. At a court-martial, one defense lawyer argued that his client had gone through "hell" after seeing Marine bodies "burned and tortured, some with their testicles cut off." Nonetheless all seven Marines were convicted and imprisoned, one for life...