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...Army last week began investigating its own investigation of the My Lai massacre. Two floors below ground level in the Pentagon's Army Operations Center, Lieut. General William R. Peers, who has been assigned to find out whether the Army originally whitewashed the affair, quizzed some of the key figures. Lieut. William Galley, charged with the murder of 109 civilians, testified for four hours, then stonily ignored questions from reporters outside the hearing room. Peers' panel also called Colonel Oran K. Henderson, commander of the brigade in which the accused C Company operated in March...
Free of the Chop. For power, Scotti had two 115-h.p. engines stacked on his stern; for a hull, he had one of the new "tunnel" designs developed by his countryman Angello Molinari. The hull consists of an airfoil-like center flanked by two pontoons. Their effect is to lift the boat out of the water and allow it to ride free of the chop on a cushion of air. In the straightaways, Scotti's black-and-yellow striped boat blasted over the waves at more than 100 m.p.h. By the 3 p.m. gun, he had averaged an incredible...
...Harvard Crimson, though relatively restrained in its news reporting, has a majority faction of New Leftists who often ram through radical editorials and feature stories. In one recent story, Crimson staffer Richard E. Hyland defended terrorism and wrote: "The only reason I wouldn't blow up the Center for International Affairs is that I might get caught...
Worst of all, suggested a Roman Catholic observer at the meeting, the N.C.C. may be losing its constituency. Dutch Catholic Priest Leo G. M. Alting von Geusau, secretary-general of Rome's International Documentation Center, which does research for the council, warned the delegates that institutional ecumenism is becoming the province of "a smaller and smaller group of ecumenists, meeting and meeting again in endless commissions, running behind the facts." In the meantime, as von Geusau and other critics noted, the young and the disaffected are moving away from churchly institutions, seeking to rediscover the radical meaning...
...demands center around three main issues...