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Show Calley announces House candidacy MIAMI, FLORIDA (March 16, 1972) - Only three weeks after receiving a full pardon from President Nixon, retired Army Lt. William L. Calley, Jr. announced his candidacy for the United States House of Representatives. Ironically, the announcement came four years to the day after the My Lai 4 massacre for which Calley was convicted of murdering 22 Vietnamese civilian prisoners by an Army court-martial less than one year ago. Calley is seeking the House seat of Rep. Dante B. Fascell of Florida's Twelfth District, who is retiring. re-tiring. The district covers a large area of Miami, where Calley grew up. The young Vietnam veteran is reported to have wide support in this area of over 500,000 population. Last July Atty. Gen. John Mitchell, the Constitution's Consti-tution's friend, told us that his department had only 53 wiretaps in place at the time, all of which were presumably ferreting out Mafia leaders, dope smugglers and other assorted meanies. This year things are looking up for the Peeping Toms in the FBI. Already, only nine months later, our hardworking Justice Department has increased this total 500 percent, giving up 213 "court-approved" bugs for ordinary bad guys and another 50 or so "national security" taps to catch spies, saboteurs, revolutionaries, and the like, which Mitchell says are so important the Federal court doesn't need to know. What they don't Know won't hurt them, you see... Of course, if you happen to be a threat to the national security or a dangerous radiclib or something some-thing like that, it could prove most embarrassing if your private conversations were leaked to the press or a credit agency, wouldn't it? But then again, radiclibs don't deserve much better from real patriots like John Mitchell anyway. |