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...money consists of a $1000 package for each House, and an additional $2000 to be distributed to undergraduate organizations at Epp's discretion. "Since we had the funds, we thought it would be fitting to give it to some of our sister organizations," says Charles A. Rheault Jr. '45, a former member of the Lampoon Board of Trustees. "The idea was not for us to play the part of a Lady Bountiful...
...unless it was in keeping with his prior military experience. If it was in keeping, he might well have done as he did without any explicit instructions from Medina. If not, the order should have at least puzzled and disturbed him, which plainly was not the case." Colonel Robert Rheault, former commander of U.S. Special Forces in Viet Nam, makes a different point. "Calley is guilty of murder," says Rheault, himself a onetime (never tried) murder suspect in the famous 1969 Green Beret triple-agent case. As an expert on anti-guerrilla warfare in Viet Nam, Rheault told TIME last...
Such a prospect should have been foreseen before eight of the Green Berets stationed in Viet Nam, including the Special Forces commander, Colonel Robert Rheault, were arrested last July. Certainly, when they were charged with the murder of Chuyen, the devastating public consequences were clear. Yet it took intense pressure by Congressmen from both parties to get the charges dropped. The most influential was South Carolina Democrat Mendel Rivers, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. As a longtime defender of military appropriations, he has a major say on military matters. Rivers summoned Secretary Resor, argued that the Army...
Some of the accused officers promptly consulted their attorneys on how to seek compensation from the Army for damage to their reputations or get their names fully cleared. Those prospects seemed dim, and most of the Berets probably agreed with Colonel Rheault, who said on arrival at California's Travis Air Force Base that he hoped history would ignore the affair. "It would better be forgotten as long as people remember that we were exonerated." There is little likelihood of that, but unless some of the Green Berets themselves tell their full stories, the details of the episode...
...Rheault was relieved of his command and replaced by Colonel Alexander Lemberes, a military troubleshooter who subsequently broke a leg in a parachute jump. Last week the Army announced that Lemberes will be succeeded by Colonel Michael Healy, now a 9th Infantry Division brigade commander, who has been a Green Beret since...