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Hutto's civilian defense attorney, Edward Magill, argued that his client had "thought that the Army would only give him legal orders," hence he was not guilty of assault with intent to kill. Colonel Kenneth Howard, the trial judge, set one milepost in the My Lai saga by declaring that a superior's directive to kill unarmed civilians was "illegal."* But, Howard said in his charge to the jury of six officers, the question really came down to the accused's ability to decide for himself whether the order was illegal. In two hours, the six combat...
...Thirty years after the Battle of Britain, enemy pilots see each other as blips on radarscopes, and they do not tip their caps. Yet some things have not changed, certainly not for the better. The villains of Townsend's book are the villains of the most modern war saga: politicians...
...Custer, ex-gunslinger, scalawag and drunkard. No sir. He is Little Big Man, sole survivor of the Battle of Little Bighorn. He may tell a stretcher or two, but when he reminisces, graduate students listen. A budding anthropologist starts a tape recorder, Crabb opens his toothless yawp and the saga unfurls...
Three new committees organized last Spring during the continuing saga of Faculty reorganization have run into difficulty finding students interested in serving on them. One is the controversial Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), the Faculty's disciplinary...
...wert bound thou couldst not break loose?" Now she says, "Tell me how you may be bound so as to be kept helpless." In the N.A.B.'s New Testament, the account of Paul's trip to Rome (Acts 27) turns out to be a brisk, realistic shipwreck saga. Too many Bible tales, Sloyan says, had become "sublime accounts more befitting gods than...