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...summer alone would seem enough to cause an upswing in student activity. The release of the Pentagon Papers revealed clearly and publicly the calculated cynicism of our Vietnam policy. Medina was acquitted of all charges stemming from My Lai, and Calley seemed to be lined up for a pardon. Nixon, ignoring the PRG peace plan, decided to let the killing continue rather than set a date for the American withdrawal which he has promised since before his election. And two days before Fall registration, a new bombing campaign began in the North: "The biggest air raids," a straight-faced television...
...alas but cannot help or pardon...
...Lieut. Calley is freed by a presidential pardon, it will be the first sign of compassion that Richard Nixon has shown in his 26 months as President. Predictably, it will be for a convicted murderer...
Nixon could pull off the political maneuver of the decade by letting this thing go on till election eve, then granting a full pardon...
...visitation list." All of which makes for a curious, almost pseudo confinement, one dictated not by the gravity of Galley's crimes as much as by the anticipation of public reaction to the price he must pay for them, a bounty of possibilities ranging from life imprisonment to executive pardon...