Word: claremont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...literature student at Claremont Men's College, where he plays defensive tackle on the campus football team and takes no part in peace demonstrations, Ridenhour insists that he "has no ax to grind" with the Army. But he concedes that he did not get along well in the service. "It's very authoritarian, just not my bag. I'm one of those guys who question orders." He is also handy with a typewriter. He crammed his letter with so many graphic descriptions of the "rather dark and bloody" happenings at My Lai that it could not be ignored...
...counter the V.C. accusation, regarded as standard propaganda, the U.S. Army launched a cursory field investigation, which "did not support" the charges. What put My Lai on the front pages after 20 months was the conscience of Richard Ridenhour, 23, a former SP4 who is now a student at Claremont Men's College in Claremont, Calif. A Viet Nam veteran, Ridenhour had known many of the men in the outfit involved at My Lai. It was C Company of the Americal Division's 11 th Infantry Brigade. Ridenhour did not witness the incident himself, but he kept hearing...
...CHARLES A. WHITE Claremont, Calif...
...Pomona College last winter, Swimming Coach Charles Platt sensed that "the campus was like a teapot about to blow its lid," because plans for a black studies center were getting nowhere. Platt united 15 professors and students from all six colleges of the Claremont group in an organization called F.A.S.T. (Faculty and Students Together), which goaded the rest of the faculty into approving plans for the center; F.A.S.T. also worked on individual trustees, who last week voted their approval of the center as well. Now members of Platt's group are thinking of broadening their organization and renaming...
...indictment, returned secretly on Dec. 17, accused Mrs. Eva Berczeller, 43, of Belmont, Mass. of writing and mailing an unsigned, typewritten letter to Julius Sklar, 53, of Claremont, N.H. demanding $50,000 for certain photographs and other material...