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...Delta Air Lines is deeply concerned about your story "The Hero Galley" [Feb. 15]. It depicts Lieut. William Galley as someone who, in recent weeks, has become the recipient of numerous favors and gratuities. It relates that Delta's Columbus, Ga., station personnel have "wired ahead for VIP treatment...
...trial of William Galley, we hear that the killings at My Lai were justified, but in our hearts we will always know that there is no justification for killing two-year-olds pointblank, be they ally or enemy...
With Meadlo's testimony, the prosecution rested its case. Defense Attorney George Latimer continued to call witnesses to corroborate evidence against the chain of command. He also succeeded in getting several previously confidential documents entered into the record of Galley's court-martial. One was a combat-action report filed by Barker after the incident. It claimed 128 "enemy casualties" and described problems of "population control and medical care of those civilians caught in the fire of opposing forces." The overwhelming burden of testimony has shown that there were neither enemy forces nor hostile fire...
Over two years ago in a village called My Lai, the U.S. Army believes that some of its soldiers participated in the massacre of unarmed Vietnamese men, women and children. Last week Lieut. William L. Galley went on trial at Fort Benning, Ga., for the premeditated murder of 102 My Lai villagers. In all, the Army has charged 17 men in connection with the incident. As Galley's court-martial got under way, the first of these soldiers to come to trial, S/Sgt. David Mitchell, 30, was exonerated by a military court at Fort Hood, Texas...
...court-martial of Lieut. Galley will not turn on such simplistic arguments. Trial Judge Colonel Reid W. Kennedy indicated that he would allow defense lawyers to examine witnesses about broader areas, such as Army policy toward search-and-destroy missions and "free-fire zones," thus calling into question not only Lieut. Galley's conduct at My Lai, but the conduct of the Viet...