Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...platoon leaders, 1st Lieut. William Laws Calley Jr., a 26-year-old Miamian now stationed at Fort Benning, Ga. Last week Staff Sergeant David Mitchell, a 29-year-old career man from St. Francisville, La., became the second My Lai veteran to be charged (with assault with intent to commit murder). The Army has another 24 men (15 of whom are now civilians) under investigation. If the accounts of others who have spoken out publicly stand up, C Company, as Ridenhour wrote, is indeed involved in "something rather dark and bloody...
...Also in Cambridge, police arrested 15 young men and nine women said to be members of the supermilitant Weatherman faction of S.D.S. Raids on three apartments netted a small arsenal: one shotgun, three rifles and nearly 1,000 rounds of ammunition. All 24 were charged with conspiracy to commit murder by firing two shots through the front window of the Cambridge police station earlier this month...
They have also been charged, along with 17 others, with conspiracy to commit murder, stemming from a November 8 shooting incident, for which they will face a probable cause hearing November 28 in the Third District Court...
Since being arrested, Johnson has made several half-hearted attempts to commit suicide. But despite his plight, Johnson seems almost as concerned about his image in the community as about the charges against him. When he was arrested, Johnson objected to six plainclothes police officers' being sent to pick him up. What would the neighbors think, complained Johnson, seeing all those cops at his house...
Mann surrendered to the police yesterday on four counts stemming from the November 8 incident-conspiracy to commit murder, assault with intent to commit murder, promotion of anarchy, and threatening...