Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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LA SOLUTION NIXON "It was either that or let Calley run for president in 1972." Mol San In .E CANARD ENCHAINE, Paris The Calley jury gave fIt vrdict... Rw This 1 I have never seen America more tortured than it was after the Calley verdict. (France-Soir, Paris) Like a patient suffering unspeakable'agony, we Americans may have wished for some private -corner of the world, sheltered from the scrutiny of our fellow human beings. But except for the Communist nations, there aren't any private wards left and our heaving and groaning was amplified and relayed instantly to every nation on earth. Thus our anguish became the world's anguish, escalating from the question of a young lieutenant's guilt or innocence to the broader question of whether man can set any rules at all in the in sanity of war. As the conservative London Daily Mail put it: The case . . . may be a turning point In the realization of our own tormented century that the profession of arms Is one that can know no law. The only "war crime" Is war itself. Among those who deplored the verdict, the "scapegoat" issue was the primary target; Mexico City's moderately liberal Excelsior said: It was a trial of hypocrisy . . . not because Calley was innocent, but because he was the last link In a chain of Iniquities, a chain of mill tary serfdom In which those who are more responsible enjoy Immu nity. Charles Wheeler, a correspondent for the BBC in London, said: Even those who agree with the jury will have some nagging doubts that Calley was indeed a scapegoat. . .His crime .:as not that he killed, but that he allowed the killing to get out of hand. In West Germany, where there was much comment on the parallels between the Calley trial and the Nuremburg trials, a TV com mentator concluded: The Invisible but ,responsible chain of command will have to be bro ken. Until this is done, there will be no atonement for the massacre at My Lai. Radio Moscow broadcast: The trial has come to an 'Incredible end, yet the majority of the ac cused managed to come out of the trial unscathed . . . while Lieu tenant Calley became the scapegoat. Hanoi's army paper, Quan Doi Nhan Dan, published a long list of South Vietnamese villages where it claimed U.S. atrocities had gone unreported, and said: It Is the Nixon-Abrame clque, representing the conspirators and prin cipal criminals, that must be tried. What Do You Hear Cy Hersh ,sell House Cafeteria, lebate Is Being Video Taped