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Wacker said he wants to get as much feedback as possible about UHS. "I suspect I can find this out more from the consumers than the providers," he added...
...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 week: "Nobody ever had a policy of mowing down women and children. Our policy was to protect women and children as much as possible...
Though no other My Lai-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...
...widely discussed case last spring, Army Lieut. James Duffy was tried for ordering his sergeant to kill an ARVN deserter and record him as a Viet Cong suspect. Justifying his action, Duffy explained: "I know in my case, platoon leaders never got any guidance on treatment of prisoners. The only thing we ever heard was to get more body count, kill more V.C. If you didn't have a lot of body counts, they would think you were a poor unit." The military jurors convicted Duffy of premeditated murder ?then were dismayed to find that he faced a mandatory...
...balance, while most people who charge the U.S. with "war crimes" use the term loosely, U.S. practices in South Viet Nam are suspect. Moreover, there are troubling legal precedents set by the Tokyo trial of Japanese leaders after World War II. One defendant was Koki Hirota, Foreign Minister during Japan's 1937 "rape" of Nanking. Though Hirota had protested the atrocities, the Tokyo tribunal found him guilty of not "insisting before the Cabinet" that they be halted immediately. Hirota received a death sentence and was executed. Where does this leave U.S. Cabinet officers...