Word: nuremberg
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...heart attack; in Old Lyme, Conn. Before scandal ruined his career, the Connecticut Democrat had a reputation as a tough, responsible prosecutor and investigator. He served a brief tour as an FBI agent after earning a law degree at Yale, later helped convict Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg. In 1958, Dodd won the first of his two Senate terms and soon zeroed in on subversives from his post on the Internal Security Subcommittee. He was a longtime champion of gun-control legislation and Senate sponsor of the 1968 gun-control bill, as well as a principal backer of last year...
...parcel of a calculated "solution" which Prof. Huntington unabashedly singles out and encourages as a good thing. And they are policies which, if we went by certain clauses in the Geneva Convention and the U.S. Army Manuals, could not hold their own in any war crimes trial of the Nuremberg or Yamashita type...
Incidentally, not only SDS has raised the charge of war crimes. The guilt and liability of civilian policy planners has been rationally and objectively formulated by Richard Falk of Princeton, Neil Sheehan of the N.Y. Times, Nicholas von Hoffman of the Washington. Post, Talford Taylor in Nuremberg and Vietnam, and ex-Kissinger aide Dan Ellsberg. (Sheehan and Taylor both mention Huntington in passing.) It is also implied by George McGovern when he says that the Indochina war is the most barbarous act since Hitler, as well as in similar statements by Generals Hugh Hester and David Shoup...
...expected to understand and enforce the laws of war. Calley claimed that Captain Medina gave orders to kill all My Lai villagers, presumably including women and children. Medina flatly denied this. Whatever the facts, Calley's claim gets short shrift from Columbia Law Professor Telford Taylor, who served at Nuremberg as chief counsel to the prosecution, with the rank of brigadier general. Writing in this week's LIFE, Taylor comments: "Such an order would be so flagrantly in violation of the laws of war, to say nothing of common humanity, that Calley could hardly have taken it as seriously intended...
...equally impractical?absurd, in fact?to envision some other kind of U.S. court staging a neo-Nuremberg war-crimes trial with Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk or Lyndon Johnson in the dock. It is one thing to say that such civilian leaders bear major responsibility for the war and the course it took, but quite another to expect legal judgment on such issues. Beyond that, clearly, none of those men are open to Nuremberg charges of "crimes against peace" and "crimes against humanity." All sought quite the opposite ends in Viet Nam, and intent is crucial in law. All believed that...