Nation: MY LAI: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY

North Viet Nam cannot defeat or humiliate' the United States. Only Americans can do that.

—Presidential address, Nov. 3

IN a terrible way that he did not mean or likely imagine, those words of Richard Nixon's came true last week as the nation grappled with the enormity of the massacre at My Lai. A young Army first lieutenant, William Laws Calley Jr., stood accused of slaying at least 109 Vietnamese civilians in the rural village in South Viet Nam, and at least 25 of his comrades in arms on that day in March 1968 are also being investigated. It...

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