Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both military and civilian," cabled Bureau Chief Marsh Clark. Nevertheless, Clark and his staff provided intensive coverage of the events in their area. Correspondent Burt Pines pursued the psychological aspects with doctors and chaplains at U.S. Army headquarters in Long Binh, while Stringer Harold Ellithorpe, a Viet Nam veteran, contributed the comments of Red Cross officials plus his own observations on brutality in the war. Correspondent Bob Anson, bucking stormy monsoon weather, flew to My Lai in central Viet Nam, viewed the rubble of the hamlet, and talked to survivors of the massacre. Clark, meanwhile, in addition to interviewing military...
Although it sounded "fishy," he asked no further questions. Nor did anyone else, it seems, until a troubled Viet Nam veteran, who had served with many of the men at Charlie Company, wrote his now-famous letters to some 30 Washington officials, including the President, the Sec retary of Defense and ? most important ? key Congressmen...
...Reid, 22, a former infantryman in the same Americal Division, claimed last week that he counted "60 dead bodies?women, children and maybe a few old and decrepit men" after U.S. troops had shot up a village 130 miles south of My Lai in early 1968. A Viet Nam veteran at Fort Benning, Ga., who would not give his name said he and other G.I.s had taken three Viet Cong prisoners up in a helicopter. "We told them to talk or we'd throw them out. The first guy wouldn't talk, so we tossed him out. The second wouldn...
...another neighbor, Karl Zaret, Rusty was "a good kid." Zaret adds: "I believe Rusty was just carrying out orders. The boy I knew respected his parents. He listened to what they said. He was a very reserved, quiet boy and very cooperative." Rusty's father, a Navy veteran, sold heavy construction equipment, and business was good. The Calleys had a vacation house in North Carolina, and in high school Rusty had his own car. He was too small for varsity sports ?even now he stands only 5 ft. 3 in. and weighs 130 Ibs.?but he spent...
...USIA are liberal Democrats left over from former Administrations. The widely respected information officer in one Communist country was replaced for being too much the scholarly diplomat and not enough the activist type. The editor of an intellectual journal was warned to abandon his "terrific liberal bias." Grumbled one veteran from the Democratic years: "Shakespeare wants gung-ho Kiwanis boosters in Communist countries. What we need are officers who can sit down and patiently negotiate cultural-exchange agreements...