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...with a thin reflecting sheet of polished copper. Each was about 5 ft. long and 3 ft. wide, small enough to be handled by one person. The Greek navy provided the men, the site and the target: a wooden rowboat with a tar-coated, plywood silhouette of a Roman galley attached to one side. When all was ready, Sakkas' burning-glass experiment took place early this month at the Skaramanga naval base outside Athens. After lining up 70 mirror-bearing sailors on a pier, Sakkas directed them to reflect sunlight on the rowboat 160 ft. offshore. At first, many...
...Sack on Galley...
...result was 60 tape-recorded hours of Galley's own words about truth, military honor and My Lai, a virtual confession that resulted in a controversial magazine article, a book and even a subpoena, when the Army tried to get hold of the tapes...
Sack enters Galley's head at crucial moments to deliver other thoughts that often seem inconsistent with the man-is-only-a-cog theory that permeates the book. Calley decides to tell the truth at his trial, says Sack, because "a lie violated the inner consistency of what every soldier did in Viet Nam." He is thus viewed as a loyal robot unable to make moral distinctions, while at the same time Sack tells us about Calley's intelligence and honor. Few readers are likely to swallow such contradictions. Despite Sack's intent to exculpate Calley...
...controversy over the article started last April when the Harvard Bulletin, which was originally scheduled to print it, gave galley proofs of the article to four black students who asked...