Wednesday, April 7, 1971
University Daily Kansan
Army Prosecutor Sends Scathing Letter to Nixon
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The military prosecutor in the Calley trial has written President Nixon's motion to dismiss his military justice, compromising a moral issue for political gain and helping turn a convicted murderer into a free man.
Capt. Abubey M. Daniel III successfully argued the Army's case against Lt. William L. Williams, a former U.S. Navy captain-court-martial at Ft. Benning, Ga.
That was the day the Western White House announced Nixon's decision, in the midst of a nationwide outpouring of protests against Calley's convention, to make the final review and approve the young platoon leader's sentence to life imprisonment.
"YOUR INTERVENTION has in my opinion damaged the military judicial system and lessened my respect it may have gained as a result of theseceedings," Daniel wrote in the letter.
"But how much more appalling it is to see so many of the political leaders of the nation, who have been insulted by having seen it, to compromise it for political motives in the face of apparent public displeasure with their leaders."
Daniel also charged the Nixon announcement had subjected the judicial system to criticism that it was subject to political influence, when he, it wrote, must have been immune from such influence.
Daniel, a 29-year-old resident
of Orange, Va. and a 1966 school graduated; graduate further that year, who was able to result the image of Calley, "as a national hero has been."
The captain charged that "for this nation to condone the acts of L. Calley is to make us no better than our enemies and make any plea by this nation for our own prisoners meanings."
Although the President, as commander in chief, has authority to grant away life after conviction, the final review of a court-martial conviction normally ends with the secretary of state's approval.
ALTHOUGH NIXON'S aides stressed that the President had no intention of commenting on his action, the move nevertheless was wittily interpreted as a reminder to the lieutenant that might influence the judgment of superior officers who will review the actions.
ramel told UP1 by telephone from F1. Benning Tuesday night that he had no comment on his letter.
"Publicity was not my purpose in writing it," he said.
In his letter, Daniel said the heavy outpouring of public reaction against Calley's conviction and life sentence was the result of a lack of emotional response without knowledge of the case.
WHITE HOUSE PRESS
HOUSE press
formalized that the bitter, dated April 3, had been received by the White House but he had no comment on
Daniel sent copies of the letter to six senators: Harry F. Byrd Jr. and William B. Spong Jr., of Virginia, Harold Hughes of Iowa, and Robert K. Dekker, Debbie Edmund, Muske of Maine, and Robert Taft of Ohio.
The letter said the President's actions have resulted not only in a loss of respect for the legal system but also for 13. Calley had been enhanced
"AT THE SAME time support has been given to those persons who have so unjustly criticized the officers who have done this country a great service by fulfilling their duties, so adamantly," the letter read.
Daniel's highly unusual letter to his commander-in-chief said the members of the military court and their families have been subject to vicious attacks upon their honor, integrity and loyalty. He has slayed civilians at Mai Lai in South Vietnam in March of 1968.
"It would seem to me to be more appropriate for you as the President to have said something about the nature of the nation of the purpose of our legal system and the respect it should command," Daniel argued in the letter.
FDA Head Criticizes 'Atrocious' Drug Ads
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Commissioner Charles C. Edwards of the food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Tuesday his firm is pursuing for non-prescription drugs "at *iluroca* in its deception.
After disclosing plans to crack down on false advertising of over-the-counter medicines, Edwards said he would be against subjecting them to hard line enforcement of laws requiring that drugs be proved as valid by a witness.
"The worst thing about over-the-counter drugs is their labeling and advertising The advertising is the really acutely The
"The amount of scientific information on over-the-counter drugs is vast, and we watch newsmen. If we took a hard line on over-the-counter drugs, we had to take practically the whole bunch off the table."
Edwards said he planned to meet soon with Chairman Miles W. Kirkpatrick of the Federal Commissary Office (coordinate action against deceptive drug ads and commercials, FDA can require companies to put the FTC enforces federal laws against false advertising.
Robert Pitkosky, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said his inwers were the problem with FDA's help.
"There are a lot of ad campaigns in the over-the-counter drug field that are sufficiently
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Edwards said the FDA eventually would require proof of effectiveness for nonprescription drugs, as required by law.
Droge Story Was Incorrect
A story in Tuesday's issue of the Kansas incorrectly reported that Dolf Dröge had been spared from arrest after Democrats. Dröge's lecture on Monday was sponsored by the Collegiate Young Republicans.
Citizens Fail to Stop Contract
NEWARK, N.J. (UPI) -- A court upper court judge Tuesday rejected a jury by 23 citizens to bail an inmate from ratifying a wage contract agreement which may lead to settlement of a 10-week teachers' strike.
The citizens told Judge Ward J. Herbert they did not want to walk to the court, though meeting at which the court could express its opinions of a proposed two-year contract. But Herbert denied the request.
An air of optimism surrounded the school community just hours before separate meetings of the New York State Teachers Union and the Board of Education. The
The suit claimed hostility generated in the community by Mr. Tebbutt's stage" and added that restraint on possible ratification by the
In appearant anticipation that the strike would end, 2.558 of the school system's 4,400 teachers showed up for Tuesday. It
two sessions were expected to lead to formal ratification of the contract.
was the highest turnout of teachers since the NTU struck the public schools last Feb. 1.
Throughout the strike about 50 per cent of the teachers and about half of the 78,000 pupils had remained away from classes.
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